How to use a potato ricer

hello and welcome to another episode of i want to cook i'm chef matt and this channel is all about empowering you to become a better [Music] cook [Music] in my last video i showed you how to make homemade mashed potatoes and for said mashing of those potatoes we used one of these this is just a manual masher but today i'm going to show you another tool for making mashed potatoes and it is called a potato ricer and this is my secret weapon for making the smoothiest creamiest mashed potatoes you have ever had so this is a potato ricer and today i'm going to show you how to use one of these so this is a potato ricer and it is purely mechanical you don't need batteries or electricity to run one of these you just need some muscle so the way it works is you put your food into this canister you adjust this push plate and you simply press down and what happens is the food will then be extracted through these holes into a really fine mesh potato erasers don't cost too much they're about 20 to 30 dollars you can find them basically at any kitchen store some general stores and of course online some potato ricers even have interchangeable plates so that you can vary the size of the food that is being extracted now before i show you how to use one of these i want to show you how not to don't just like take a raw potato and you know put it in here and try to push down you would either break the device or break yourself with that this is meant for cooked foods or soft foods only so now i'll show you how you do use one of these and two reasons why you might choose a rice or over a masher the first reason i've already discussed is because it just yields really really creamy potatoes you won't get any lumps with this the second is that it actually saves time because you don't need to peel the potatoes before you cook them because of these holes what happens is you can load your cooked potatoes with the skins on push through and by its nature because of these fine holes it will extract just the potato and not the potato skin so you can save some time peeling potatoes by using one of these so let's make some mashed potatoes using a potato ricer so for using a ricer for mashed potatoes we will once again begin with russet potatoes but instead of peeling them we will just give them a good scrub from here it's the same method as using peeled potatoes we'll cut them into similar size chunks put them in a pot cover them with water then heat the pot over medium-high and simmer until tender the cooking process should only take about half hour or less until the potatoes are nice and fork tender when tender drain the potatoes now at this point instead of using a masher we'll pile these potatoes into the potato ricer and press here's how it's going to go down time to put our ricer to work so we will load up our cooked and drained potatoes we're just going to put these right into the canister here make sure none get away you don't want to fill it too full especially if you're doing this just for the first time so the potatoes are in the ricer now all we have to do is press and just just like this this process is called extrusion and see what it yields are these nice fluffy amazing potatoes they're like clouds so that's how you rice a potato and then we're just going to repeat this process now you'll note that the skin on the potatoes is kind of at the top here and every so often i like to take that out and you can just trash it or compost it or i don't know maybe even like give it to your dogs or something but that's all we're gonna have to do so once again we'll just reload and then press just like that and see you get these fine fine potatoes this is kind of fun and you even get to use your muscles and build up a little arm strength here [Music] and again if it gets gunked up just kind of uh brush the skins and kind of this excess off into an awaiting bowl here and be sure to scrape the bottom to get all those lovely riced potatoes now these are fluffy on their own and they're delicious but just like with regular mashed potatoes i'm going to add some milk and butter to these to make them just extravagant so i've got some heated milk here i'm just going to pour this in and some melted butter we'll pour this right in and again since we're not using a masher we're just going to use a fork and just kind of whip these up oh my gosh my friends i wish i wish you could smell these the butter the creaminess i've got some parsley flakes add these on a little pepper touch more salt final stir heaven heaven thanksgiving or any day if you want to make the smoothest creamiest mashed potatoes potato ricer so that's the 4-1-1 on potato ricers and hey if you get one of these you can actually use them for uses beyond just potatoes you can also squeeze yams out of these things sweet potatoes i've heard some people even make baby food puree by using one of these potato ricers hey do you have one of these if you do and you use it for a different use other than potatoes i'd love to hear what you use these for and any results that you get as always thank you for watching i want to cook if you found this video helpful please give it a like that lets me know that i'm producing content you guys like and if you're not already a subscriber welcome to the channel please subscribe that way you will always know when i have new videos to help you be a better cook thanks for watching and i will see you next time until then keep on cooking

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Length: 7min 17sec (437 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 22 2020