slo’s WEDNESDAY 11/26 poll - Whipped vs Mashed Potatoes 🥔

[slo]

Thanksgiving is tomorrow for us Americans, which means we get to indulge in many of our favorites, and one of them is mashed potatoes. Growing up, I only had whipped mashed potatoes - my mom doesn’t make them any other way. I always liked them and never had an issue with them. Then I started dating my DH and mashed potatoes at his house and his parents mash the potatoes, and oh my, I fell in love with actual mashed potatoes. They are lumpier and thicker than whipped potatoes and they are so so so good. Here’s a little something about it….


My mom and MIL switch off every year with who makes the mashed potatoes and who makes the stuffing, and this year is my MIL’s year for mashed potatoes and I’m so excited. They hold my gravy so much better than my mom’s whipped potatoes, and it’s all about having nice firm walls for my gravy - LOL!

With all that being said….what’s your feelings about whipped vs mashed potatoes? Let’s find out….


What is your opinion of whipped and mashed potatoes?
(multiple choice)

*If you won’t be on The DIS tomorrow, I want to say Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.



For Me…..I like whipped potatoes and love mashed potatoes. I rarely make homemade mashed potatoes throughout the year due to time (if I made actual mashed potatoes after work, we’d be eating at 8pm, and I’m not doing that), so when we do eat mashed potatoes it’s instant mashed potatoes - they’re good enough. If I do have time to make actual mashed potatoes, I’m mashing them with a masher. In 30 years of marriage and living away from my parents, I’ve never whipped my potatoes.

 

[WDWEPCOT]

I grew up making mashed potatoes never whipped and instant was NEVER allowed once I married I found out about instant so excited we eat them a lot I rarely make mashed potatoes but if I do I makes them with my masher after 30+ years I finally had to buy a new one
Now if I’m making sweet potatoes sometimes I will whip those but not always
If I’m making squash I just use my masher same way I make potatoes

If you’re not on here tomorrow I wanna wish you a happy Thanksgiving

 

[bobbiwoz]

I never knew that what I was making was Whipped Potatoes, until now! My sister uses a potato masher, I use an electric beater, we both call them Mashed Potatoes! We both use butter and buttermilk as the liquid!

 

[Kitty 34]

I've always called mine mashed potatoes even tho I use a beater. I make them all the time.

 

[Disneylover99]

I use a hand mixer and I consider my potatoes mashed, not whipped. The key is to underbeat, never overbeat or it starts to taste like glue. Mine are not super smooth. I always leave some lumps. They don’t taste whipped at all.

 

[NannyBeBe]

I use my mixer to make whipped potatoes, with loads of butter. No one in my family wants lumps in their mashed potatoes. I use evaporated milk for the liquid.

 

[LoveDaisy]

I prefer mashed potatoes. I like my potatoes to have texture. I feel the same way about applesauce.

 

[Meriweather]

whipped (still called mashed). Only way DD will eat them......no lumps, no skin (and that is why I will be the one making them tomorrow). I also add sour cream to them.
That's the way my mother made them.

 

[Wood Nymph]

I love mashed potatoes. I had to "fire" my husband as the mashed potato maker because he would always whip the potatoes. Whipping them makes them gummy, imo.

I make mashed potatoes at least twice a week.

 

[CAPSLOCK]

I never knew that what I was making was Whipped Potatoes, until now!

This. Mom always used an electric beater and we always called them mashed potatoes. I tend to think most people call them mashed potatoes for either style.

The "whipped" texture is so much better than the actual "mashed" potatoes that grandma would make.

 

[lovesmurfs]

I never knew that what I was making was Whipped Potatoes, until now! My sister uses a potato masher, I use an electric beater, we both call them Mashed Potatoes! We both use butter and buttermilk as the liquid!

Same. I was today years old! My sister-in-law is super fancy and uses a ricer.

Given the choice, I prefer non-lumpy (but with a few lumps only so that people know they're not from dehydrated...LOL).

Can't say there's any potato I DON'T like.