Mashed Potato

I cook potatoes in their jackets. Scoop out the insides to mash then cut the skins up and fry or roast until crispy add a little sea salt and sprinkle on top of the mash it a very tasty garnish.
Adding some made up mustard or a sensible amount of horseradish sauce makes a nice mash as well.

petallus a ricer is a bit like a very large garlic press. I think I have seen Mary Berry squeeze the potato through the ricer straight on to her fish pie, and I have done this; the potato is not then too dense. Must fish my ricer out of the cupboard!

If you have arthritic hands you may find that squeezing the potato through the ricer is not easy. Some ricers are better than others, too.

This good grips masher is the sort my mum used to use - she had badly affected arthritic hands and could use this style of masher easily.

www.lakeland.co.uk/17108/OXO-Good-Grips-Potato-Masher?gclid=CN_DjfOA7b8CFWX3wgodyK0Apw&src=gfeed&s_kwcid=AL!49!3!52965914771!!!g!45641177162!&ef_id=U0mu-QAAASj3Lw3q:20140730121130:s

I have one of those too. It is a much better design than those with a handle straight up. I have arthritic hands.

Remember SMASH? Yuk!

Todays frozen potato is MUCH better than Smash, whatever the little Martians may have thought of it. Ask those who were at the Burns Lunch at my house last year.

If you don't want to add butter or oil. Dice potatoes, then add a small amount of Alpro non dairy cream to soften the mash.. I add various things to mash, one is grain mustard and chives.

It was very, very good, Elegran - I hadn't known it was of the frozen variety!

Frozen is great I agree. I aways have some in cos I can't be bothered peeling as a standby.

OK, I'm convinced. Will try the Aunt Bessie's/Tesco's. I'm all for anything labour saving.

If I can't be bothered to peel potatoes for mash, I just cut the spuds up as usual, boil as usual, and mash the lot (always with butter). Some of the skin fragments stick to the masher. Those I discard. The rest we eat.

I had to zip my lip when my daughter in law recently cooked us a meal using frozen mash. But, do you know, it was absolutely lovely. Consequently I bought some and use it regularly. Yippee.. I'm all for short cuts, living alone and getting quite creaky now.

My thumbs get very achy if I have to peel lots of potatoes.

Delia Smith is a fan of frozen mash!

Also a fan of Norwich City, says it all really !!

LOL

Well a director actually !

I like M&Ss Desiree potatoes and mash them with milk and butter. For a topping of fish pie or whatever I add cream and a beaten egg to enrich them

Talking of Delia: there is only one fish pie, hers. But it's made with pastry, not mash.

Lots of great suggestions.

However, I still think that Petallus's rude little brother should come over and be made to mash the potatoes himself. Then he can't complain if it's 'hard'.

Intrigued to find out how old rude little brother is!

I have two little brothers aged 62 and 56 and right little pests they are too. No respect for their olders and betters

I love mash but struggled with a normal potato masher due to my arthritis,then I discovered Masha potato and vegetable electric masher,absolutely brilliant.

My daughter had my granddaughter's friend round for tea recently. She gave the girls mashed potato and my GD's friend said 'your mashed potato is lovely' My daughter, who incidentally is a good cook, said 'oh thank you' and the friend replied 'it's much nicer than my mum's, I prefer it like this with lots of lumps in'.

How weird, I just did a post and it's disappeared.

rosequartz my brother is coming up to 67 but as he's four years younger than me I always think of him as 'little'.

I shall go with the Maris Piper suggestion, cook really well and then add butter, or maybe yoghurt, before mashing.

If that doesn't work I shall move on to a ricer. I'm holding back on that option because I never use my garlic press and I suspect the ricer might go the same way.