/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>barely edible

Are you an 18th century Frenchman?

>>13588622
Potatoes are one of the best vegetables along with Daikon and Carrot.

>>13588622
This is the kinda post I'd imagine a rouge A.I. or some alien try to fit into society would make.
Everyone loves potatoes.

>>13588622
The nutritional contents of the humble potato are basically enough that you can live fairly healthfully by eating nothing except potatoes (but you would be better off supplementing with dairy and / or beans for a better protein profile).
They are also delicious. Try Chef John's Potatoes Romanoff recipe.

>>13588622
>seems like no matter how theyre prepared they are barely edible.
you suck at making them or just don't prefer them

>>13588622
boiled/steamed potatoes with salt and butter. not filler and delicious.

baked potato, mashed potatoes, and potato salad are all great.

>>13589180
dont like any of those

its all starch

>>13589015
>Potatoes
>Vegetable

>>13589203
?

Even though this is probably feeding the troll, when you say " no matter how they're prepared" what preparations do you specifically use?

The clarification would narrow down any problems with cooking technique you may have that reduces the quality of your experience.

>>13589203
Reevaluate your life right fucking now, anon

>>13589033
I mean I like things that go on a potato, butter, sour cream, bacon, garlic powder, salt, but potatoes themselves are pretty bland.

>>13589232
im just talking about all the different typical ways americans eat potatos like mashed and baked

ive never made potatos myself but ive been given some potatos just recently that I wasnt thinking id use unless it was my last option

>>13588622
>no matter how they are prepared
Have you tried cooking them?

I'm honestly perfectly happy with a baked potato lightly sprinkled with salt and pepper.
When I lived in Japan, simple baked sweet potatoes were a very popular snack. I think I could enjoy white potatoes that way too.

>>13589203
Eating roots is eating plants
They may not be veggies but they are vegetables

they're staple calorie carb food
if you need calories they're useful for peasants such as myself

>>13589203
I'm somewhat sure that eating vegetables would entail eating leaf, stem or root.
Which is why the whole ''tomatoes, pickles, cucumbers aren't vegetables'' discussion is a thing.

>>13589253
>Mashed
Use more butter

>baked
Shit

Try dauphinoise and gratin potatoes. And learn how to make a proper roastie.

>>13591845
>baked potatoes
>shit
What's the matter, baby can't handle something simple?

>>13591856
I've cooked hundreds fine. I just find them boring to eat. There are far better potato dishes I enjoy to eat.

>>13591856
Some people won't eat the skins. Those people probably don't like bread crusts either.

>>13591875
In the winter when we have our wood burning stove heating the house we wrap potatoes in foil and bake potatoes in the coals and they pick up a bit of smokiness. Add butter, salt and pepper and it's goat.

>>13591915
Yeah we do it when we are burning the olive tree prunings. Mainly because my dad loves them, I'm just meh about baked potatoes.
>>13591875
The skin is the bit I actually enjoy

>The skin is the bit I actually enjoy
Meant for >>13591881

boiled and pan-fried potatoes are great though

>>13588622
They're pretty good in curries, masala, and biryani. They take up flavor very well if you've got actual flavor in your food.

>>13591845
Based gratin with thinly sliced onion, garlic and bell pepper.

>>13591881
I like bread crust and hate potato skins. there goes that theory.

op must be a central or northern european whos only ever had plain boiled potatoes or baked potatoes with a spoon of butter or sour cream on top "for flavor"

>>13589186
You can just say you don't know how to season anything.

>>13593463
Plain potatoes sounds more like a flyover thing.

>>13594727
just google "scandinavian cuisine", you'll see plain boiled potatoes served as a side within the first page or two

>>13594733
So they don't eat plain potatoes in flyover states?

>>13594737
not sure i understand what you're getting at here, but i think the people in your flyover states come from norway and germany anyway

>>13593463
you literally always eat boiled potatoes with sauce.

>>13588622
Shit thread, fuck off. Stop replying to this shit bait.

>>13594752
noted. and you are saying this on behalf of which cuisine?
over here in bulgaria you never eat boiled potatoes, unless it's some type of potato salad and that's seasoned with salt, pepper, butter, onions, possibly milk, etc.

plain salted white rice is usually the vehicle we pair with sauces and stews

>>13594761
Scandinavia, and probably Germany as well.

>>13588622
They can be good weapons in a potato cannon.

>>13594769
well big slices of potato aren't so good at absorbing sauces, give rice a try

>>13589252
You need to buy better potatoes then
Theres crazy stuff out there

>>13589033
why would an ai be red

>>13594761
dane here eat a lot of boiled potatoes its pretty cash but yea you are supposed to eat it with sauce or cold on rugbrød with mayonaise and sea salt

>>13594837
potato on bread?

>>13588622
Have you tried salt?

>>13589252
Try any food without fucking SALT and tell me it's not bland you absolute moron.

>>13589252
>Yes human I do enjoy the taste of salt, but potatoes themselves are not good by themselves.
You.. you realize you need to salt thins for them to state good right?

>>13594945
Kartoffelmad is a delicious classic, but I've never heard of smoked potatoes before.

>>13594957
is that what rogede kartofler means?
in bulgaria we do this thing where during camping trips we wrap a potato in tin foil and toss it in the ashes after we're done with the rest of the cooking. that smells smoky enough. it's decent i guess. i suppose if you add enough wet ingredients like mayo or sour cream it can work as a bread topping

>>13594963
That is what it means but I don't think the ones in the photo actually look smoked. Probably just a mistranslation.

for counting calories do I just weigh the potato before cooking and choose raw?? cooking doesn't change the calories does it???

>>13588622
make some mashed potatoes with "new potatoes" the ones after harvest with light skin, add cream salt and butter

>>13594955
you can condition yourself to enjoy food with less salt and sugar you know, it just takes time

>>13594984
>cooking doesn't change the calories does it?
Not to any significant degree anyway, no.

>>13594988
New potatoes are amazing. Too good for mash IMO

>>13594992
Yeah no shit, not everyone is american, but try not using ANY salt and enjoying your food.
Go ahead, be a retard and torture yourself.

>>13594955
>>13594992
>>13595036
isn't there an anecdote about colonel sanders and kfc regarding this?
colonel sanders had figured out his herbs and spices recipe and was traveling around the country to shill his chicken recipe to restaurants. everyone thought it sucked.

but one restaurant owner immediately knew what was wrong with it. you see, colonel sanders was on a low sodium diet for years and he undersalted his chicken. so the restaurant owner added a teaspoon of salt to the batter to make it perfect and that's how chicken mcnuggets were born

Why are they so filling?

>>13588622
Boil them, mash them, stick them in a stew. What is wrong with you?

>>13594945
yea its pretty amazing its not smoked though
its super refreshing and filling love it

>>13594963
we just boil the potatoes we do also how ever throw them in fires too with tinfoil on them and just eat them as baked potatoes
never found them to be smoky

god damn it now i craving some baked potatoes with bacon bits, garlic butter and sour cream

>>13595077
Starch

>>13595077
noooooooo we got too cocky keto bros

>>13591801

but anon tomatoes are a fruit

>>13595217
botanically
in cooking they are not a fruit

>>13595217
Pizza is technically just dough with cheese on top. But we are not talking about it scientifically, things have their own categories and names in cooking.
Stop being pedantic and trying to sound smart by not using the appropriate terms for the conversation at hand.

>>13595263
>Stop being pedantic and trying to sound smart by not using the appropriate terms for the conversation at hand.
should be a banner

>>13588622
They are "fillers" the same way pastas i filler, they can be a dish by themselves by they usually need something else to shine.