....was a happy day indeed.
Last year on Thanksgiving Day I prepared mashed potatoes for a hundred people. Wanting my starch to be served fresh and hot for such a multitude, I bought a potato ricer in anticipation of the endeavor, thinking I would alternate using it with the KitchenAid, or maybe utilize both at the same time (ha! Try that at your own risk!). What I didn't realize, was how wonderfully easy it was to mash with this little contraption. It whipped up my potatoes faster, smoother and with less mess than the mixer. After the first five pounds of potatoes I stopped using the mixer entirely.
I'm totally hooked. It's fun, and I love that it looks like a huge garlic press! I'm not sure yet how many people I'll be preparing for this year, but should I be required to serve potatoes.....I've got my weapon. Bring 'em on!
(photograph courtesy williams-sonoma.com. Yes, you can purchase yours there. I'll not say whether you can find the same ricer somewhere else for less. :)
8 comments:
I LOVE my potato ricer, too! My girls enjoy using it as well. I'm curious about the 100 people...were they guests in your home? I'm sorry to be nosey. I become anxious over a small dinner party. LOL
I've never needed one as I don't cook for that many people, but WOW. Maybe I *need* one!
Okay, that's just cruel to not tell us WHY you were cooking for 100 people. Knowing you, you were doing something super sweet like volunteering at a shelter or a soup kitchen. Yes? Either that or your husband has a lot of friends...
Too funny! I just played the word RICER in a game of Scrabble (on Facebook) just seconds before I clicked over to bloglines and read your post. And I even checked the dictionary to make sure RICER is a word!
100 people???? Please tell....I get hives cooking for 30 at Thanksgiving...;)
You ladies are great. No, Margaret, it was not charity work. Just a very large family who are good friends of ours. From a beautiful couple came seventeen children, and from those are more than 120 grandchildren. Think that's amazing? They also sing together in beautiful polyphonic voices, and several of the children and grandchildren sing opera professionally! Lots of homeschoolers in that family too!
We love you, Grimm Family!
Kristen, please tell whether it can be found for less elsewhere. In my searches, I found less expensive ones, however, they were "lesser" models, too. I am perfectly willing to pay the WS price for a ricer that made making mashed potatoes for over 100 people seem easy!
Nikki, I found the ricer on ebay for ten dollars less than the WS price, though I don't see it there now. You might try ebay a few times, but if you decide to purchase from WS, you won't regret it. :)
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