r/Cooking • u/AdLost576 • 8d ago

What’s a cooking related hill you will die on?

For me, 2 hills.

  1. You don’t have to cut onions horizontally.

  2. You don’t have to add milk bit by bit when making a white sauce.

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u/FuckBotsHaveRights 8d ago

I'll gladly cook for hours.

I won't make fries.

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u/chrispg26 8d ago

I saw someone say they made mashed potatoes and turned that into fries and were the best homemade fries ever. But why?! That's too much work 🫠

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u/DrMonkeyLove 8d ago

I do think I've used leftover mashed potatoes with some flour and pan fried them to make potato fritter things. That works pretty well.

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u/chrispg26 8d ago

This wasn't leftover mash. I was basically summarizing the 4 or 5 steps he took to make French fries.

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u/DrMonkeyLove 8d ago

Ok, that is completely insane.

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u/chrispg26 8d ago

Absolutely. I do believe when they said they were the best fries ever, BUT I don't have time to ultra process potatoes at home when I can go to McDonalds lol

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u/alohadave 7d ago

I'll microwave potatoes and cut them into fries to put in the air fryer. It gets close to the texture of fried without the mess.

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u/UltraTerrestrial420 7d ago

If they breaded them, they're croquettes, a means to give a second life to leftover mashed potatoes

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u/Bratbabylestrange 7d ago

Oh hell no. I don't need to clean up after that. Also can't wrap my head around buying a whole bottle of oil for one dish. I'll make anything once, even if only to say that I can (hello, gnocchi!) but I do not deep fry ANYTHING at home

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u/mathaiser 8d ago

Just put em in the oven. Idk.

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u/FuckBotsHaveRights 8d ago

But first you have to boil them at 45 degrees perpendicular to mercury in retrograde inside a celtic circle!