# What's your favorite way to eat potatoes? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 28, 2011, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-way-to-eat-potatoes/587200 "2011-06-28T23:02:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-way-to-eat-potatoes/587200/41 "2011-06-29T17:36:26Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > What’s your position on shrimp? Don’t get me started 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-way-to-eat-potatoes/587200/42 "2011-06-29T17:38:34Z")
I loves me some spuds. I like all the choices in the poll, but I voted “other” for hash browns. **Yum.** ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-way-to-eat-potatoes/587200/43 "2011-06-29T17:49:16Z")
I don’t know if it has a name, but here’s my favourite recipe: Boil potatoes for about 30 minutes, then peel them and cut each potato into 4 to 8 pieces (depending on size) Peel an onion or two and cut into largish pieces. Saute the onion pieces in olive oil, with seasoning to taste (e.g., black pepper, chili pepper), then add the potato pieces. Continue to cook the mixture, stirring regularly, until the potato pieces are partly brown and crisp on the outside. Optionally: Add other vegetables cut into similar pieces, e.g., bell peppers or broccoli. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-way-to-eat-potatoes/587200/44 "2011-06-29T18:01:33Z")
“Other” for me. Nothing in the world like a fresh-from-the-oven potato kugel, crispy on the outside, mushy on the inside. Just two more days till Shabbat… ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-way-to-eat-potatoes/587200/45 "2011-06-29T18:06:40Z")
Other: Hash browns. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-way-to-eat-potatoes/587200/46 "2011-06-29T18:09:03Z")
Roasted. Although I like potatoes just about any way they can be cooked. Fries and hash browns were a close second, but nothing beats a good roasted potato. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-way-to-eat-potatoes/587200/47 "2011-06-29T20:37:57Z")
All of them but boiled. And home fried should be on the list. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-way-to-eat-potatoes/587200/48 "2011-06-29T21:04:24Z")
> [@VanillaGorilla](#): > > I voted _other_ for [Hasselback potatoes](http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/hasselback-potatoes/detail.aspx) , recipe in the link. The cheese is all wrong though, there should be no cheese on Hasselback potatoes. Plus, make it garlic butter, and use twice as much. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-way-to-eat-potatoes/587200/49 "2011-06-29T21:52:52Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Other: Hash browns. Covered with sausage gravy and topped with a fried egg. Oh yeah. Also, latkes with sour cream. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-way-to-eat-potatoes/587200/50 "2011-06-29T22:03:39Z")
1. Roasted 2. Mashed 3. Baked 4. Hash Browns 5. French fried ---
**Author:** ![Teacake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Teacake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teacake)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-way-to-eat-potatoes/587200/51 "2011-06-29T22:04:30Z")
Any way they’re cooked, I love potatoes. I couldn’t vote in the poll because I love every kind. I think I may also love **TriPolar**. Your post was sheer poetry. My only addition: the best potatoes are the ones you just dug up from your own vegetable patch. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-way-to-eat-potatoes/587200/52 "2011-06-29T22:23:45Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > I like all those. I guess baked edged out the others, but that may be because I eat french fried all the time. If I ate less fries, I’d miss the other more. > > Also, I consider potato wedges a seperate category, and chips, potato pancakes, and hash browns (along with their poor cousins home and cottage fries) should be on the list. Oh yeah, and now the spicy Deannies type potatos I make, and potato kugel, my friends recipe called flat fries (1/4 inch thick slices of potatos fried in a pan). That’s just potatos pretty straight up, you’ve also got the potatos in hash, and stews, and the potatoes I add to Indian dishes, so curried potatos would be another one on the list. Also potato pancakes have various forms like latkes made from grated potatos and Swedish potato pancakes made from mashed potatos. Then theres all the forms of stuffed potatos, potato skins, and in soup form vichysoisse (or however that’s spelled) to ham and potato soup, and good red chowder which should be loaded with big chunks of potatos, Don’t forget potato sticks, I love to munch on those sticks. Plus there are different types of potatoes, those giant Idahos, new potatoes, red potatoes, blue potatoes, Yukon Gold potatoes, white potatoes (the best for chips). Then there’s potato salad too. I’m partial to good hot German potato salad, but I like the cold form if seasoned properly, and egg and potato salad is one my favorites. Then you get into old fashioned fish and chips with the fish wrapped in thin potato slices before battering and frying, and egg and potato sandwiches are great to. Even those bizzare manufactured products like tater tots and rings and other shapes can turn out well. I haven’t even started on roasted and steamed potatos and the different seasonings that can be added. And potato dumplings, pierogies, and gnocchi can’t be disregarded either. > > Maybe I should have clicked on ‘other’. How could you forget potato leek soup? YUM! ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-way-to-eat-potatoes/587200/53 "2011-06-29T22:50:50Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > How could you forget potato leek soup? YUM! I was counting on you to followup for me. ---
**Author:** ![Kyrie\_Eleison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kyrie_eleison/32/7682_2.png) [@Kyrie\_Eleison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyrie_Eleison)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-way-to-eat-potatoes/587200/54 "2011-06-29T23:26:39Z")
Another hash brown lover here. But they’ve got to be the grated kind, not the diced ones. Diced fried potatoes are okay, but they’re nowhere as good the real thing. Also, please throw some cheese, a couple of sausage patties, and some over-easy eggs on top. Slather it with ketchup and yum! ---
**Author:** ![Jormungandr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@Jormungandr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jormungandr)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-way-to-eat-potatoes/587200/55 "2011-06-29T23:29:58Z")
Fried potatoes with onions, be it either breakfast, lunch or dinner. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-way-to-eat-potatoes/587200/56 "2011-06-29T23:38:30Z")
Hot! ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-way-to-eat-potatoes/587200/57 "2011-06-30T08:52:13Z")
Other: Sautéed in goose fat with garlic and rosemary. Also, the South African chip variety known as “_slap_ chips” (pronopunced “slup” and meaning, essentially, slack or floppy), best seen in the [steak Gatsby](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KTUslcBMLV8/TJDE-sb1INI/AAAAAAAACR8/kGB73U-PSxM/s1600/gatsby_sandwich.jpg?iact=hc&vpx=345&vpy=109&dur=1343&hovh=160&hovw=314&tx=218&ty=96&ei=2zkMTqy9HY3Nswbb9cmLDw&page=1&tbnh=92&tbnw=181&start=0&ndsp=18&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0) ---
**Author:** ![Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superfluous_Parentheses)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-way-to-eat-potatoes/587200/58 "2011-06-30T09:31:11Z")
> [@koeeoaddi](#): > > The Greek way, roasted with olive oil, lemon, salt and tons of garlic. Yes yes yes! ---
**Author:** ![ryan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@ryan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryan)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-way-to-eat-potatoes/587200/60 "2011-06-30T21:08:36Z")
Mashed (with garlic, butter and maybe fresh dill) would edge out the others by a tiny, tiny hair, but honestly I love potatoes in just about any shape or form. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-way-to-eat-potatoes/587200/61 "2011-06-30T21:25:01Z")
Bratkartoffeln for the win. Nobody does potatoes like ze Germans. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-way-to-eat-potatoes/587200.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-way-to-eat-potatoes/587200.md?page=4)