Would you eat this mashed potato?

[MrMajeika]

This is maybe a bit of a mean thing to post and just to put in to context my mother in law is a good cook and pretty much everything she makes is delicious. However her mashed potato is always really gloopy. Maybe it's the potatoes she uses but she always adds a lot of milk and butter and then I think uses a stick blender which I feel is where the problem is. This time she put mozzarella in it. My wife and father in law are like mmm it's soo good and I know they are genuine and I'm thinking like really? Is it? I'll add a pic what do you think

 

[caseydog]

Is that shown without any kind of gravy? It looks like it is drowning in gravy.

CD

 

[MrMajeika]

Is that shown without any kind of gravy? It looks like it is drowning in gravy.

CD

No gravy just mash

 

[TastyReuben]

I would eat those out of politeness, but I wouldn’t like it.

I also agree, it’s the stick blender that’s to blame. I think that’s making them gluey.

 

[The Velvet Curtain]

Agreed, the stick blender is over working the potato and making it stringy.

 

[karadekoolaid]

That looks more like potato soup than mashed potato. I always add milk and butter to my mash, but I use a fork and a potato masher. Blending the mash makes the potato like glue!

 

[kaneohegirlinaz]

My DH's sisters both make Mashed Potatoes using a hand-held electric mixer ... umm ... gloopy and not appetizing at all. Since the large family gathering meals served buffet style, I just pass them by.
DH said that's how him Mother made them ... he doesn't care for them either.
No amount of gravy can save it!

 

[Yorky]

Only if there was nothing else. Much too much liquid in my opinion.

My preferred mashed potato consistency.

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• Yorky
• 28 Dec 2022

 

[Rocklobster]

I think you'd need a straw

 

[Mountain Cat]

Out of politeness. And I am glad that is not gravy, I dislike white gravy. The straw idea is good. I do like some lumpy texture in my own mashed potatoes. But this problem is more than the stick blender that was used to mash this up.

Is this trying to become potato soup???

 

[Morning Glory]

Its most definitely the stick blender that is to blame as other have said. There are two kinds of mash: the fluffy sort which I prefer and which is similar to that which Yorky shows, above. But there is also a classic 'French' chef version which is more of a purée (indeed its known as Pomme Purée in France). This has a lot more butter added and is sometimes passed through a sieve for an extra fine texture and is more 'sloppy' than regular mash. But, whatever version of mashed potato, gluey is not what it should be.