I use yogurt from time to time. Is good if you don’t use too much, much like sour cream. My sister in law makes insane cheesey mash potatoes where Greek yogurt is a key ingredient.

What you don’t want to do is accidentally use vanilla yogurt in your spuds.

How are lumpy mash potatoes, or mash potatoes with the peels “country style”?

It’s less sharpness of blade, then amount of mixing. The sharp blade will break up more cells and release more starch with less processing time. But food processors and blenders run faster than mixers, so they’re doing more mixing in less run time.

Mixers run slower, and hit less of what you’re mixing at once. So it’s …

The smaller you cut the cloves before cooking (smashing/slicing/mincing) will increase the garlic flavor.

The cooking water is loaded with excess starch given off by the potatoes during cooking. So it will tend to turn you’re potatoes denser. Which is fine if that’s what you’re into. But it’s one more factor on maybe going too far. You also want to salt your cooking water pretty heavily, and that means over salting your…

It’s a good baseline, but you generally have to add some other form of cooked garlic as well. Either garlic powder during cooking (to drive off the sharpness), or roasted or sautéed garlic while mashing.

It’s kinda like adding a bay leaf to things. It’s not easy to pick out in the finished product, but the end result…

So the two types of potatoes are starchy and waxy.

Yeah the point of them is to grind up the dross from doing the dishes so the drain does not get clogged. It’s not a place to throw additional garbage so you don’t have to throw in the trash can instead.

I had a friend growing up who’s family would toss whole left over potatoes, egg shells, fucking small milk cartons…

Evan Williams in general is a good buy. For bog standard American whiskey the Black Label beats the hell out of Jack for half the price, the green is legit for around $10. And the white label bottled in bond is actually good for around $20.

I just think "smooth" is meaningless. I mean people call Jameson's smooth, and practically nothing on the market likes to crawl back up your throat more. 

Basil Haden likewise on the bourbon. Very good quality for the price, excellent bourbon. It’s not everywhere, but it isn’t a surprise to run into some.

“there is no mild”

Not at my supermarkets. If it’s labelled a Yam. It’s a yam. In fact they have several varieties of yam, along with taro and cassava. And people buy them for all kindsa holidays.

And it’s never been particularly common to label sweet potatoes “Yams” here in the North East.

Which is very much what I’m talking about.…

The list is all over the place.

Pisco is a brandy sure. But it’s not typically included with Brandy proper, as it’s clear and unaged. It has more in common with other immature fruit brandies and grappa than what most are thinking of when we say “Brandy”.

Grappa itself is absolutely nothing like regular aged brandy.…

This is a bit of a bad bet with Whiskey, unless you’re dealing with some one who likes to try new things or has a specific thing for local or small brands.

Most small craft distilleries haven’t been around long. And it takes a good 8 years minimum to pass into the realm where there’s enough properly aged whiskey…

I would be more specific. If some one doesn’t know Scotch enough to have one in mind, or know what a friend likes. Then Highland is going to be Greek to them.

I tell people to get something with Glen in the name, but not the cheapest one.

Almost all of the Glens are Highland or Speyside. None of them are Islay. As a…

Year old zombie thread to dispute the boiling point of water?

I just can’t stand being picky so i tend to poke my dislike with a stick.

Pointing out reality is not advocating for it.

The problem here is not Salt Bae is a dick who pays less than the going rate.

The problem is the restaurant business is fundamentally exploitative, and in many places relies on sub living wages and fucked labor practices.

You might have picked that up if you understood…

The church he’s a member of is basically Evangelical Christianity’s answer to scientology. They actively recruit and promote actors, entertainment industry people, and celebrities. Position themselves as a replacement for drug and alcohol treatment or Mental Healthcare. They seem to part of the same Prosperity Gospel,…