Potato To Draw Out Boils

Mashed potato is one of the ultimate comfort foods – whether it's piled high with sausages and gravy, or sitting on top of a wholesome cottage pie, we can't get enough of the stuff.

In fact, we consider ourselves connoisseurs of mash – which is why we were rather surprised to learn that, according to one top chef, many people are actually making it incorrectly.

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The standard method for most people is to boil potatoes, pour away the water, mash vigorously and then add milk, butter and seasoning.

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However, according to Food Network chef Tyler Florence, by doing this we actually lose a lot of the flavour.

'Potatoes have a really delicate, beautiful minerality to their flavour profile, and when you cook potatoes in water and you pour that water down the drain, you've extracted all the flavour of the potato,' he told PopSugar.

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'So, what I do with mashed potatoes – because you finish them with cream and butter anyway, right? – is I'll take that same cream and butter and add that to the potatoes and cook the potatoes in cream and butter.'

Basically, he adds everything (that's peeled chopped potatoes, single cream, butter and olive oil) to the pan from the get-go, and then simply mashes the potatoes once they've cooked through. Having run this by the cooking gurus and the Good Housekeeping Cookery School, we can confirm it works.

So who else is really craving mashed potato right now?

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