# Make me your best mashed potatoes.

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-me-your-best-mashed-potatoes/700559
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [October 6, 2014, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-me-your-best-mashed-potatoes/700559 "2014-10-06T16:26:25Z")
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### Author: ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2014, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-me-your-best-mashed-potatoes/700559/41 "2014-10-11T22:36:04Z")

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Floury variety of potato, boiled in lightly salted water, testing with the point of a knife for the point at which they soften.

Drain, add a chunk of salted butter and leave the lid off the pan so the potatoes can dry off a bit.

Mash with a handheld potato basher, but not too thoroughly. I like simple, rough, fluffy, lumpy mash (because I’ll be serving it with pie, peas and gravy - and smooth blended mash just turns into a sloppy puddle of soup when served with gravy).

If I was cooking it just for myself, I’d add pepper at point of mashing, but my fussy family won’t let me, so I have to add pepper to mine after serving.

I sort of expect some backlash about this, given how many people here seem to like smooth or whipped mash. Oh well.

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