fried potatoes

[upsidedownwalrus]

I love cooked breakfast at the weekend and like to have fried potatoes with it. I usually slice the potatoes and boil them but when it comes to frying they just seem to either be under done or fall to pieces all over the pan. They never get crispy and just seem to either be not fried at all or getting on for burned. I do thinnk that trying larger chunks would help but anyone got any tips on the perfect fried potato?

I like doing a thing where you mash them first then fry them with eggs and cheese.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

You don't need to boil spuds to fry them. Rice, you put that in the fridge before you fry it. You do that because the starch retracts into the grain. But that doesn't happen with potato because their potato's.

Just chop them fairly small and even, nice sharp cubes with a very sharp knife. Wash them off, to wash away the starch to stop them sticking together and then dry them. Wait till the butter is starting to fry before you put them in and then move then about gently. Cooked when golden brown and soft all the way through. Can take longer than you think.

ooooh my mother in law makes these to-die-for diced fried spuds with chilli powder.

 

[EddyBlack]

Nice bit of oil. Cook them on the high heat (highest) keep stirring them.

 

[butterfly child]

My mum used to make fried potato all the time, she never sliced them.

Slicing them is wrong

Chopped, or I may even suggest mashed, but not sliced.

 

[zenie]

I cube em really small and fry em in sunflower oil or butter with onions and cut up bacon

 

[AnnT]

Now, where did I see a recipe over the weekend for sliced potatos, about the thickness of a £2 coin and fried in duck fat .....

now, all I can think of is fried potatos and I come on here to find this post.

It's a sign!

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Now, where did I see a recipe over the weekend for sliced potatos, about the thickness of a £2 coin and fried in duck fat .....

The Observer probably.

 

[pogofish]

Another alternative - Rosti. Yummy!

Recipe:

http://www.sausagelinks.co.uk/recipe_detail.asp?id=20

Cheese Rosti:

http://recipes.epicurean.com/recipe/3155/cheese-rosti.html

 

[longdog]

Diced?

Diced?

Fucking diced?

You lot are either mentally ill or foreigners.

Either way you're wrong with a capital R.


PS: If anyone uses the expression 'fry off' I'll hunt them down and kill them. The expression is 'fry' not 'fry off' the 'off' is superfluous and fucking annoying even worse than 'drizzle'

If you have a spare 'off' put 'fuck' in front of it and do so

<deep breaths>

 

[fractionMan]

best and easiest method for fried potatoes:

Chop up into 1 cm thick skin-on semi circles, shallow fry in olive oil uncovered for 5 mins in saute pan on high heat, reduce to low-medium heat and put lid on for another 10 minutes or so until soft.

job done. no sticking or any of that shit involved.

 

[fractionMan]

to make them into potato powa, chuck in a teaspoon of cumin seeds, same of mustard seeds, a chopped green chillie, some tumeric, a handful of quick soaked rice flakes and a clove of garlic about 2 min before the end and turn up to full. Fry until rice goes crispy. Better with 1 cm thick 1/4 circled pots.

 

[Detroit City]

I do thinnk that trying larger chunks would help but anyone got any tips on the perfect fried potato?

yeah, don't boil them first...