Somehow I managed to ruin a batch of mashed potatoes this morning. Ever since I started using a potato ricer, and discovered that you could put the whole potato in there without even peeling it, that was my go to, fool proof method of making them - no lumps and no gummy texture from over mixing either. However the potato ricer I was using I no longer have access to, so my family bought me an Oxo brand potato ricer for christmas, and while it's decent, it doesn't "rice" the potatoes as well, and sometimes things such as the skin, go through the openings.
Usually I would bake the potatoes in the oven then just pop them into the ricer. But today I decided instead to simply cut them up (unpeeled) into large chunks and throw them into my electric steamer instead, figuring it would be faster than baking them for over an hour. I washed the potatoes off really well but was too lazy to peel them. Unfortunately when I went to put them through the ricer, brown stuff which looked like dirt, was coming out of it along with the potatoes. The mashed potatoes looked "dirty" and not very appetizing at all. And for some reason, the usual amounts of butter that I normally put into them were too much, and/or the butter somehow separated because they also came out really greasy. I ended up tossing the whole batch down the drain before anyone else saw me do it, otherwise they would have yelled at me for doing that.