goeduck
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Looks great!
What do you do with your Instant Pot you cant do with a crock pot?
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First "bummer" with the Instant Pot. Garlic mashed potatoes with sour cream and chives. The flavor was spot on but the texture was that of paste or drywall mud. We tried the immersion blender on them so am thinking that caused the problem. Live, Learn and Try Again.
goeduck
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Tonight my brother threw down the gauntlet and texted me pictures of donuts he made that looked like what our mom used to make. He had her donut cutter but I can look beyond that and use a water glass and a shot glass. But I never made donuts by myself. DANG. HELP!
txdon
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This surprises me. I make garlic mash potatoes with the emersion blender all the time and they turn out good. I just use potatoes, garlic and water and make the potatoes like a thick soup, they seem to thicken more as they sit.
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Smashed potatoes too thick, add a little milk, too thin, let them simmer a bit to steam the water out.
But sometimes you gotta throw in the towel if they're just bad. :confused3:
But sometimes you gotta throw in the towel if they're just bad. :confused3:
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A real potato masher is hard to beat. This one was my great grandmother's and still works great. No batteries required. 
txdon
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Might be something to the method of mashing. My mom always uses an electric hand blender, not an immersion blender, and she consistently gets perfect mashed potatoes, better than mine.
buckeyefarmer
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After mashing with a hand masher we use the mixer.
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I’ve found that “over working” mashed potatoes... makes them “sticky”. We boil them, drain the water, throw a stick of butter and some salt & pepper in the pot, wait a few minutes and the smush then with the hand masher. They come out fluffy every time. YMMV.
