Page 140 from America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook. Here is how this is going to go down. I'm going to rate the recipe based on the following criteria: Execution of recipe, ease of ingredients, taste. Execution and ingredients will be weighted equally on a scale from 0-5. Taste will be rated on a scale from 0-10. 0 is the lowest score, 20 is the highest.
Ease of Ingredients: (Availability is ranked based on likelihood that ingredient is already typically stocked in a kitchen. Ranking is Common/Uncommon/Rare/Very Rare)
Here's the ingredient list:
Russet Potatoes - Common
Butter (Unsalted) - Common
Pepper - Common
Salt - Common
Half-and-half - Uncommon
The recipe is pretty simplistic with the ingredients. Most of the ingredients will be on hand, although you may not have the right type of potato, although russet to me would be the most common. If you are a coffee lover, you will have half-and-half. If you are not, it's likely you'll need to make a grocery trip. My wife, when she drinks coffee, doesn't drink coffee. She drinks coffee flavored half-and half. 5/5
Half-and-half - Uncommon
The recipe is pretty simplistic with the ingredients. Most of the ingredients will be on hand, although you may not have the right type of potato, although russet to me would be the most common. If you are a coffee lover, you will have half-and-half. If you are not, it's likely you'll need to make a grocery trip. My wife, when she drinks coffee, doesn't drink coffee. She drinks coffee flavored half-and half. 5/5
Ease of Execution (Techniques/Tools used):
Boiling
The recipe is timed for 40 minutes. Most of the time spent is for boiling water and then adding the potatoes. The potatoes need to be peeled and quartered, and as long as you add the butter before adding the milk and you have something decent to mash potatoes with, you're set. If you add both at the same time, the potatoes will come out more gummy and the texture not as appealing. 5/5
Taste
The cookbook comes with variation to build from this mashed potatoes recipe base. It would probably give the potatoes more punch. Still, if you want a standard mashed potatoes recipe, this one is solid. Before I used this recipe, I didn't make very good mashed potatoes. This is good for what it is, and with the simplistic ingredient list, one that I can pull off easily and without a lot of added cost. 6/10
Total Score: 16/20 (****)
Total Score: 16/20 (****)
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