I feel like we could have done better than ‘baked potato’ for a fancy dinner. Come on.
Potatoes au gratin
Or dauphinois
Or Hasselhoff. Yes, I know it’s “hasselback” but I refuse to change.
Served on a naked Hasselhoff, right?
Right?
Not so much these days.
The two preparations are quite similar aren’t they?
Firstly, how dare you! Uncultured swine.
Secondly, yes. They’re very similar indeed.
I love a good “how dare you be so accurate!”, well done! 😁
The initial outrage followed by tenuous agreement was very potato.
Basically the same thing, except au gratin has cheese or some sort of bechamel
Yeah baked potato is just a solid lunch choice usually
Potatoes dauphinoise would have fit better
baked potato is just a solid lunch choice
Unpopular opinion: not even that, really. The baked potato is by far the most overrated potato.
It’s not very good by the standards of food in general. Which of course makes it quite bad by the lofty standards of potatoes.
Hard agree. I’d eat a lot of potatoes as an actual potato and the only one I’d generally not be arsed with is baked. Roast absolutely crushes them. Nice mash too. Chips? Easy win. Bit of gratin with a nice meal? Yes please. Potato salad for lunch? Better than baked son and you’d better believe it.
Come to think of it, I honestly cannot think of a variety I’d place below baked on the yummy spud scale.
Baked potato salad is pretty good though.
I have never heard of that but I’m open to the experience.
Cheese, bacon, chives and (sometimes) sour cream in your potato salad. I’m into it.
I’m curious, what toppings are you using?
I unironically rate a baked potato mid-to-high tier for potato. You’ve gotta make sure you cook it so the inside is fluffy and the skin starts to get crispy, then I always add a bit of butter, salt & pepper before the toppings
It’s just that many supposedly “fine dining” establishments phone it in with baked because they’re easy and customers accept it.
Like a TWICE baked potato.
Okay, let’s not go too far.
Loaded baked twice.
au gratin, dauphinoise, tartiflette all sound like good alternatives
Well, hon hon hon.
You guys ever tried the Cheese Bomb Tater Kegs they sell warm near the Walmart checkout?
I just assumed they meant “roast potatoes”.
I assumed they meant ‘baked potato’ because ‘baked potato’ is what they said.
Don’t go making wild assumptions like that without citing your sources
Source: read the post
Losers online hate this one weird trick
That’s fair, it’s just that the context suggested otherwise.
I guess if he’s from northern England, and by “dinner” means the midday meal, then it makes sense. Otherwise there is no universe where baked potatoes are served for a fancy dinner. Roast potatoes are a part of a fancy dinner, though. The two cooking techniques are similar enough that I think it’s not unreasonable to assume, again given the context, that it’s just the wrong word.
Nah, I used to work at a country club that did black tie events and weddings, and baked potatoes did show up on the menu. If they wanted them even fancier, they could get the twice baked potatoes even.
Yeah some people just always want a baked potato with a steak.
Fair point, I retract my statement! The idea of using a baked potato as a side sounds bizarre to me, but if it’s a thing I guess it’s a thing.
Funeral potatoes?
Pommes fondantes!
Wanting to get drunk?
Vodka, distilled fermented potato juice
God bless the people of the Andean Plateau, who looked at a moderately poisonous tuber that can freaking kill you, and said, “Eh, it’s fine, just don’t eat too many of 'em.”
A few thousand years of selective breeding and hard work later, we have one of the most important crops in the world.
Yep hunger does some wild things to people
Cool science class demo about the power of compressed air? Potato gun.
Need a battery?
Potato battery.
This is stupid. It gets plenty of recognition. Everyone loves potatoes. Makes alcohol too.
Found the Irishman.
More likely a Russian. Sounds like he’s making vodka.
Sorry, I’m actually Japanese-Canadian. We make some potato shochu in the northern part of Japan. They’re not bad, but I prefer the sweet potato kind.
So, more like Polish. Russia loves to try to steal the claim to vodka.
Midlife crisis/divorce/utter failure? Vodka.
Average evening at home? Vodka.
Average evening at home?
That’s what I said.
I think oil is doing a lot of unsung work here
Salt, too. Try having potatoes without salt. Blech!
Want to get more control over the Irish? Potato Famine.
Boil, mash, stick em a stew!
I heard some grow in permafrost
baked potato is fancy? wow
I think if there are chives garnished on it then it looks fancy.
I mean baked potato is as fancy as the toppings you put on it yeah but after a while it stops being baked potato
A loaded baked potato (butter, sour cream, cheese, chives, salt/pepper) is usually a side dish when we have “special” meals like holidays or anniversaries or whatever and I think that’s what OP was goin for?
A big loaded potato is a pretty typical side for a nice steak and that definitely qualifies as fancy IMO.
Exactly!
yeah they should’ve gone with pommes fondant
nice TIL about these, will definitely try
Well hey we’re not all Thurston Howell III, only eating julienned potatoes cooked in virgin avocado oil.
Fancy breakfast?
Is that kimchi?
Looks like salsa. That’s a more common potato topping. Although I suppose that kimchee would be good, too. I’ve never tried it.
Saved that astronaut guy stranded on Mars.
Mark Watney probably never ate another potato after that though. I know I wouldn’t.
Recreational even.
Wanna get wasted? Vodka Wanna just launch something as far as you can? Potato gun
easy to smoke out of too
dunno if that’s healthy since raw potatoes are poisonous to eat. can’t imagine them being good for you to smoke out of. but hey, when in a pickle a potato would probably do
only if you eat, like, a dozen or more large potatos raw.
having the occasional raw potato wont hurt you, unless you are dumb and eat one thats solid green.
My man, wait until you hear about this thing called rice.
#allCarbsMatter
Rice cooked in oil, for the love of god, rice cooked in oil.
Yes I know Japan does it different. Yes I know they have dedicated cookers to make it fluff. No Japan does not have a monopoly on how to cook rice.
Like fried rice or like actually cooking the raw rice in oil?
second one, then add water
Ah yes this is a good way.
So do you fry the rice before cooking it in water like normal? I’ve done that with pasta and that was really good
Yeah just fry it with a little oil in the pan until goes a bit crispy, and then chuck water into the pan and put on the lid, stir every other minute, bit of salt, pepper, and maybe one random herb, and done in ten minutes
For fried rice without having to wait a day for cold left over rice to use, fry :1 uncooked rice in oil till it gets golden brown and smells toasty, then throw in :2 water/stock and cover it tightly to simmer for 10 minutes.
Switch the heat off after those 10 mins simmering are up and don’t touch the lid/pot for another 10 minutes so the steam finishes cooking the rice.
Stir in any fried rice additions once it’s cooked.
The texture is spot on for ‘normal’ fried rice, and depending on what additions you stir in, the taste is spot on too.
Or soy.
Want protein? Soy.
Want milk? Soy.
Okay, but how about a flavorful sauce to put on your food? Believe it or not, soy.
Potato is just extra large rice
