Mashed potato - how to make it easily?

[sweetkitty]

We all love mashed potato but the mashing it is a real pain, breaks your arm doing it and they are still lumpy?

Any brilliant suggestions?

Well tonight I'm having a cumberland sausage casserole (okay, I'm cheating it's a jar) with cheesy mash, carrots, broccoli and cauliflower. And I'm holding this thread ENTIRELY responsible

Am I the only one who doesn't think that mashing potatoes is hard work? It really isn't!

Incidentally - question for the Lakeland queens - gadgets for grating cheese - any decent ones out there?

I HATE grating cheese manually, but can't be arsed to drag the big food processor out, find the grating blades then wash the damn thing afterwards.

I seem to remember my mum used to have a rotary metal cheese grater thing that you pressed with one hand and rotated the drum with the other - but after a while it started dropping metal bits into the cheese which probably wasn't that healthy!!!

I've had a plastic version since, but that never seemed to work properly and I was forever getting an aching arm for having to press too hard and scraping compressed cheese off the drum inside.

Is there an easier way?!

it's a mini mouli. Mine doesn't drop metal bits!

I'm with you Countess, mashing is a doddle... this thread has indeed baffled me. But then, I find cleaning the cheese grater more work than actually grating the cheese...

Oh i just put mine in the dishwasher!

I have a little scrub brush that came with the juicer, actually, does the cheese grater perfectly clean. But until I figured out the brush, I found it a real faff.

Now we have Nachos every weekend .

Oooo... so dropping metal bits isn't a feature then?

Okay, off on a hunt for a mini mouli...

Due to this thread I bought the ricer today from Lakeland and am currently boiling my potatoes...yummy yummy!

Can't believe this thread is still going !

We are having a potato free meal tonight (chicken stir fry) but I will be roasting some King Edwards tomorrow for dinner... (along with some beef & yorkshires of course!)

DD had cheesey mash for dinner last night but it smelt so good I almost ended up eating it myself!

Oh yes, meant to say, I bought a potato ricer from ikea a couple of years ago, don't know if they still do them though.

I also clean my ricer in the dishwasher. Seems to do a good job.

I don't use a ricer and my mash is fab. I use a masher and then whisk firmly with a wooden spoon to create light fluffy texture.