How to Make Mashed Potatoes

hey kids it's great to see you again welcome to another edition of cooking with dad today I'm going to show you how to cook mashed potatoes you know there are many different recipes for mashed potatoes but this one's just a real basic one so it'll get you started then you can make it your own but first I have a dad joke for you so why was the potato so stressed out because he knew he was in hot water ah so anyway let's get started so first you'll need to peel your potatoes but I do have a a hack that I learned that I'm going to show you right here as well so if you don't like peeling potatoes this might work for you I'm going to go ahead and put the potato in that I already peeled and then here's the trick you just want to cut a slice on each of your potatoes right down the middle just cut a thin slice with a knife and then when you go to boil it it'll boil and then you'll just be able to kind of peel those they'll just slide right off so you just want to make a mark right down the middle of each potato like I'm doing here and then do that to each potato before you boil [Music] it okay I boiled the potatoes for about 30 minutes and then I ran them in some cold water to cool them down because this would be really hot on your fingers if you're trying to do this with hot potatoes there's a reason why they call it hot potato so see how they just slide right off though the skin just slides right [Music] off okay go ahead and remove the potatoes from the pan because we're going to go ahead and melt butter in the pan and we're going to chop up these potatoes there's different ways you could do this too you could just mash it right in the pan with the butter but this is how I like to do it we're going to put in a stick of butter and put that on the stove now go ahead and cut your potatoes into smaller [Music] chunks bring your pan with the melted butter and then add some milk to it and this really depends on the consistency that you like uh if you add too much milk then it'll be runny or uh less milk it'll be dry so you kind of got to play with it and you can always add more milk later so let's go ahead and add the potatoes in before we start mashing them so we have this potato masher that we use to mash ours if you don't have that you can just just make sure you cut your potatoes into smaller chunks otherwise you'll be doing this forever with a a fork or whatever you're going to try to do or a knife uh yeah so you definitely want to leave chunks here though so don't over Mash in my opinion if you like your mashed potatoes super pureed pureed then go for it but I like to have some texture okay we're going to go ahead and transfer our mashed potatoes into a casserole dish now I like to top them with some shredded cheese uh you can use cheddar this is a mixture of some different cheeses you don't have to do this but I think it's a nice touch and then you can actually take this with you to the party and then warm it up in their oven or you can go ahead and throw it in the oven now for at 350° for about 20 minutes and it should be good all right so I hope that was helpful for you again there's so many different ways you can make mashed potatoes you can add sour cream I've seen people add yogurt you can add many different things uh you just got to make it your own and decide what you want to do I do like mine uh with some bits of potato left in there so if you use you know the the instant mashed potatoes those are just Flakes and there's no real texture if you watch my Channel at all like pumpkin pie I like to have some texture in my pumpkin pie I also like to have the the small chunks you know or you can leave bigger chunks whatever you want do in your mashed potatoes so anyway don't overthink it just go ahead and give it a shot and see what you come up with so thanks for watching and God bless you