primitives discuss hash browns

[Wineslob]

Good Lord. 

DUmmies:

Wash potatoes, grate, rinse the "shreds" to get rid of the extra starch, pat dry, add S&P, fry in a pan till browned.

Idiots.

 

[diesel driver]

There are two things only DUmmies could **** up.

Hash browns and a wet dream.

Three things.
Remember the DUmbass f'ed up the grilled cheese sandwiches.

[JohnnyReb]

I think I see the DUmmies problem.....

cleaning

slicing

cooking

hash browns

is
 
to

much

like

work.

[jukin]

Thaw out a bag of frozen hash browns in the refrigerator, dry them off with paper towels, and fry them in a skillet.  Perfect every time.

Don't forget the Vietti chili.

Mrs. Jukin likes to cook things from scratch. Me, I like to take available food and adjust it to taste. She has tried to do hash browns from scratch. The closet she has come to the delicious frozen ones I do is:

1. Take raw potatoes and grate them.
2. Put those grated potatoes in cheese cloth or a dish towel and twist/squeeze the hell out of them to get the water out.
3. make the patties.
4. Cook with copious amounts of EVO and salt.
5. Wait longer than you think to flip.
6. Wait less time than you think to pull off and serve.

I eliminate steps 1-3. Tastes just as good, maybe better and no extra dishes to do.

For lurking DUchebags, don't use a plastic spatula or a stainless steel pan. You ****ing idiots.

[Chris_]

Mrs. Jukin likes to cook things from scratch. Me, I like to take available food and adjust it to taste. She has tried to do hash browns from scratch. The closet she has come to the delicious frozen ones I do is:

1. Take raw potatoes and grate them.
2. Put those grated potatoes in cheese cloth or a dish towel and twist/squeeze the hell out of them to get the water out.
3. make the patties.
4. Cook with copious amounts of EVO and salt.
5. Wait longer than you think to flip.
6. Wait less time than you think to pull off and serve.

I eliminate steps 1-3. Tastes just as good, maybe better and no extra dishes to do.

For lurking DUchebags, don't use a plastic spatula or a stainless steel pan. You ****ing idiots.

Paper towels are cheap.  I haven't used cheesecloth since my first restaurant job at some overly-fancy place out by the airport that served escargot.

[dane]

3. make the patties.

Rather than patties, I 'scatter' them, and keep stirring them until done.

When done, I pile them onto the plate, and put one, sometimes two, sunnyside up fried eggs on top of them. The eggs CAN go beside the potatoes, but I like them on top.

Two sausage patties go alongside.

[JohnnyReb]

If they don't have southern style grits....I'll eat hash browns.

If I am visiting someone, I eat whatever they put on my plate....just like momma told me to do.

[Aristotelian]

If I am visiting someone, I eat whatever they put on my plate....just like momma told me to do.

You mean you don't have a list of invented 'allergies' as long as your arm, and a screwy diet which means you can't eat anything normal people would cook for you? That's definitely not the DUmmy way.

[lastparker]

If I am visiting someone, I eat whatever they put on my plate....just like momma told me to do.

I think this is a lost lesson with the current generation of mommas.  I have had soooo many kids tell me, "I don't like that," oftentimes right in front of their momma, who just looks at me expectantly to see what I will substitute for Junior.

[Ralph Wiggum]

If they don't have southern style grits....I'll eat hash browns.

If I am visiting someone, I eat whatever they put on my plate....just like momma told me to do.

It is just courtesy.  I dined at my girlfriend's family recently, and was warned that her mom is a rotten cook.  I actually liked the meal, but only ate what I knew I could stomach.

[Dori]

I think this is a lost lesson with the current generation of mommas.  I have had soooo many kids tell me, "I don't like that," oftentimes right in front of their momma, who just looks at me expectantly to see what I will substitute for Junior.

What's with that?  If their kids are that picky, why didn't mama bring something her kids would eat.

My kids always ate what everyone else got.  No way I would be a short order cook or encourage a fussy appetite.  And if they really, really, really didn't like something,  they at least had to try it. 

[franksolich]

You mean you don't have a list of invented 'allergies' as long as your arm, and a screwy diet which means you can't eat anything normal people would cook for you? That's definitely not the DUmmy way.

I have no food "allergies" myself, but damn, there are some things I just will not touch.

Such aversions don't appear to be a matter of taste--a great many things I don't like have a lot of sugar or chemicals or grease in them--but just simply the body (rather than the brain) instinctively saying "no, it's not good."

Usually, generally, most of the time, no one serving me as host or hostess has to go out of his or her way for me; I just pick-and-choose from what's offered, even if it's just a whole-wheat roll with real butter, and coffee, while everybody else is dining on six or seven different dishes.

That's not the problem--that I nibble while others are chowing down; temporary deprivation doesn't harm anyone.

The problem comes when others some times--not all the time, but some times--insist that I must try this or that.  That is where physics comes into work; an irresistible force meeting an immoveable object.  This object remains steadfastly unmoved, but it's a titanic, epic, thing to see.

As for concerns about whether or not I'm "enjoying" myself, I'm there for the social company, not for the food.  Food, I can get myself.  And on the Head of St. John the Baptist, that's the utter truth.  Food, I can get myself.

[IassaFTots]

If they don't have southern style grits....I'll eat hash browns.

If I am visiting someone, I eat whatever they put on my plate....just like momma told me to do.

Is there another kind of style of grits?  And yeah, I do the same. If I didn't I would feel the rath of my ancestors smacking me upside my head, just like the olden days.