The BEST Mashed Potatoes You'll Ever Make (The Southern Way)

📖 Get all 305 of Grandma's secrets here: https://earlenetatum.com You cut them, dropped them in a pot of water already rolling and walked off. Twenty minutes later you poured the water down the sink and mashed what was left, and it came out grey and wet enough to slide off the spoon. The potato got the blame. The potato was fine. Boiling was never the whole job. This is the bowl the way it was done on a stove nobody could set: brown potatoes out of the sack, two fingers of water and a tight lid, a hand masher, the tall can of milk, and one thing she did in the last minute before the bowl left the stove that I have never seen in another kitchen. That is the eighth piece and it is saved for the end. Seven pieces get you there, and I tell you why each one works so you can fix your own pot without me. Here is the afternoon, in order: 0:00 Why a boiled potato comes out grey and wet 2:40 One. The right potato, and the wrong one 4:09 Two. Cold water and a slow fire 5:53 Three. Two fingers of water and the lid 8:10 The year I bought the box 10:11 Four. Cut them big, peel them thin 11:34 Five. The masher, not the mixer 13:29 Six. Salt, then butter, then hot milk 15:23 Seven. Wednesday's potato cakes 17:07 The bowl and the well 18:45 Eight. What she did before the well 21:11 How many to make 21:56 The whole thing short enough to carry 23:42 Your week There is a new recipe here every single day. Come back and cook with me. Next time I am doing ribs. Most of you wrap them in foil and they come out grey and soft. Falling off the bone is not the same thing as done, and what Callie Mae wrapped hers in was never foil.