It looks like an oversized garlic crusher. Pop your cooked potato in, hold over a bowl and press the handles together = light, fluffy and lump free mashed potato. Some chefs don't even bother to peel the potato when they cook it, just push the boiled spud through and the skin apparently stays behind.But, just like the trusty potato masher, it pays to rinse the ricer immediately after using. Cooked potato can stick very stubbornly.
The one the Folks have given me has a choice of 2 discs to insert in the bottom - they have differently sized holes. A food mill/ moule leguimes (sic, ?) produces a similar result. My food mill is kind of large so this new toy is great.
Confess I've only used it once so far.....
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Hi Mickle! My mother had a potato ricer. As a kid, I loved getting to squish the potatoes through it for mashed potatoes. I didn't know there was another way to do it. Then when I married (53 years ago), they were nowhere to be found. I finally convinced my mother to give me hers. And I did finally find a new one, but it never worked as good as the old one.
I have a potato ricer and love it! I also have a nutmeg grinder and an egg slicer...items in my kitchen I use a lot!
Thanks so much for all the warm thoughts you sent my way while I was in Hospital! You and the sweet felines...you kept me warm!
hugs
Sandi
The amount of things we have that we use only once! Liked that post and I learned a lot. Thanks for your warm and supportive words over at mine. Hx
ps: word verification "holicat" (!!)
Hadriana - this will be definately used more than once - I've only had it for a couple of weeks. Cottage pie weather beckons. holicat? - mine if a daftcat.
Mary Z - great to hear from you. I've only seen them used on TV ccoking shows. Had wondered what they were since read an L M Montgomery book from 1940.
Sandi - lovely to hear from you. Zebbycat is purring loudly for you. Yes, he purrs at least half the time he is awake. Huggles.
Hi Mickle, Having made heaps of quince paste recently, I found it rather amusing that the word verification for this comment is........quini !
Now,the reason for the comment is the ricer. Its also good for making spaestle, using the larger hole disc.(hope I got the spelling right, because it somehow looks wrong)
Hi Olive, I know the style of recipe you're referring to.
Oh, thank you Olive, is something I want to try. My food mill is wonderful, but a bit heavy to hold up over a saucepan.
I sent Mum back up to Tauranga with a jar of quince jelly. The folks gave the jar to me at the New Year full of lime marmalade. Felt was only right I returned it full.
Care and huggles, Mickle (Zeb says !mmm!)
oh Ive seen one of those before in a cook shop, but I just use a proper good old fashioned masher lol
x
Thanks Mickle! I had no idea what it was. Sounds like a really good idea..... IF you remember to wash out before the potato sticks in the holes!
Hi Michelle! This potato ricer is a fabulous invention that I didn't previously (until now!) know existed! I never saw one in the states, and I haven't seen one in the shops here, but perhaps I haven't been looking intently enough! Thanks for a great tip! Hugs to you and the purr ball!!! (Mine have their birthday today - Binka and Suki turn 3!! Yoohoo!!)
you learn something every day!
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