Home fries v. sautéed potatoes

SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
Sauté potatoes?
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Fried on a big diner griddle. They’d be offended if you said “sauté!” :laugh:

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TastyReuben said:
Fried on a big diner griddle. They’d be offended if you said “sauté!” :laugh:

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Hmm yes they do look more like fish n chip scraps than sauté potatoes 😂
How would sauté potatoes cause offence? They’re normally a sign someone’s really bothering with your brekky 😂
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
Hmm yes they do look more like fish n chip scraps than sauté potatoes 😂
How would sauté potatoes cause offence? They’re normally a sign someone’s really bothering with your brekky 😂
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Diner, AKA greasy spoon, in no way shape or form a place that would sauté food. In some places, wouldn't even know that word.
 
medtran49 said:
Diner, AKA greasy spoon, in no way shape or form a place that would sauté food. In some places, wouldn't even know that word.
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They used to be fairly standard fare even in a greasy spoon before hash browns arrived on the scene.
Now you only get them if you make them yourself, or in my case Mr SSOAP makes ‘em 😊
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
How would sauté potatoes cause offence?
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What @medtran said - you’d be seen as someone putting on airs, asking if the potatoes were sautéed…”Honey, them’s fried taters. I don’t know who or what ‘Saw Tayed’ is!”

They’re not “scraps,” they’re whole cooked potatoes, sliced and (usually) roughly chopped, right on the griddle, fried crispy on the outside and still soft, like a boiled potato, on the inside.
 
TastyReuben said:
What @medtran said - you’d be seen as someone putting on airs, asking if the potatoes were sautéed…”Honey, them’s fried taters. I don’t know who or what ‘Saw Tayed’ is!”

They’re not “scraps,” they’re whole cooked potatoes, sliced and (usually) roughly chopped, right on the griddle, fried crispy on the outside and still soft, like a boiled potato, on the inside.
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Well it simply comes down to needing a sautee pan to sautee potatoes. They can't sautee potatoes on a griddle.
 
You don't have to have a sauté pan to 'sauté' things in the uk. Mostly it just means high heat with little fat.

I suppose if your neighbours are french more of their language is going to appear in yours.
I don't notice it at all until we're talking about cooking with folk from the US, to me and I'm sure everyone else here it's part of our language too, you mostly don't even think of it as French 😆

If you saw those 'homefries' being made here you'd likely describe them by saying "they were a kind of sauté potato"

That adopting of others language and culture as your own happens in the US as well.
I was watching a youtube vid recently and the american cook proudly claimed the croissant to be American, American food for Americans." I briefly wondered what a French person would think, made me smile 😃
 
karadekoolaid said:
OK, I got it; it's a bit like my YMCA potatoes. Left over potatoes fried up, yes?
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Can be, mostly though just cooked from raw or parcooked just to get things started. I've been known to cook up a baked potato half I couldn't eat for breakfast next a.m. I've also been known to stick a potato in the oven while cooking dinner for use the next morning.
 
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