Which Celebrity Makes The Best Mashed Potatoes?

[Music] i'm jesse from the buzzfeed food team and today i'm going to be testing six celebrity mashed potato recipes to find out which one is actually the best i have recipes from gordon ramsay the pioneer woman tyler florence i nagarin oprah and for a little bit of fun i have a recipe from two chains this morning i peeled all the potatoes and i measured everything exactly as the recipes state to find out which one has the best recipe and just level the playing field i picked my winner but i'm gonna have three of my friends pick their winners today in a taste test which celebrity has the best mashed potatoes well let's get mashing oprah uses both red and idaho potatoes to make her mash she uses a ton of butter to make them super creamy she uses a hand mash to make them nice and smooth seasons them up and adds her secret ingredient an entire bottle of horseradish so we know these potatoes are gonna have a kick to them [Music] these look heavenly a lot of like a potato skin in here there's something in here it smells like horseradish there's definitely some soul in these mashed potatoes i don't hate it but i don't like it next up is the queen aina garden under garden uses plain old boiling potatoes to make her mash she covers them in water and sauce them so the water seasons the potatoes from the inside out she mashes them through a food mill which is an old school of mash in them and pretty labor intensive but they come out nice and smooth once they're mashed she adds good butter and milk mix that in until they're creamy season them and adds her special ingredient sour cream these look very classic very your regular plain jane mashed potatoes i think it's just salt pepper butter mashed potatoes i don't like the taste texture-wise is very fluffy that i like is creamy but it's very simplistic up next we got gorn ramsay with his recipe for champ which is just a fancy word for mashed potatoes with green onions he uses round red potatoes and cuts them into chunks so they cook evenly he presses them through a potato ricer to make sure they're super creamy and there's no chunks left over once mashed he adds butter and an entire bunch of green onions he mixes those in and adds milk and cream that's been heated in the pan he seasons with salt and pepper and that's it to me it seems like a ton of green onions definitely not the mash to eat on a hot day what a beautiful smell smells like my grandma's purse gorgeous okay the onion and scallion is like overbearing oh there's like some heat to it what's really interesting about this is that the scallion is not only adding so much aroma but it's adding texture it's adding a crunch to it the chives work so well here but the parsley is just like what what are you tyler florence starts with yukon gold potatoes and does something crazy with them he covers them in milk and cream adds smashed garlic and herbs and boils them directly in that mixture he strains them out but saves the cooking liquid to thin them he adds that mashes them with the hand master until smooth adds butter and a ton of whole grain mustard he seasoned with salt and pepper stirs all that in and calls it a day hella yellow i love these little seeds they give it this little crunch i feel like it tastes a little mustard i don't hate it i mean it's like if you took like german potato salad it made it mashed potato salad up next is a wild card two chains he gets a little fancy and uses yukon gold potatoes and leaves half them unpeeled to give it a nice texture he cooks them in salted water until tender and drains them he adds sour cream parsley butter and garlic that has been boiled in a separate pot he mashes it all together until smooth and seasons with salt pepper and even more garlic this time garlic powder you can tell he's all about aesthetics because he garnishes with even more parsley on top this looks like a classic mashed potato recipe it's good i want a little bit of salt but it's good but it's still super fluffy and then the garlic like really like smacks you in the face makes my hair go like this finishing up the competition was the pioneer woman with the recipe straight from her ranch she recommended using russets or yukon gold potatoes so i decided to be fair and just use both she boils them strains them and mashes them in a hot pot to get rid of any extra moisture she adds a ton of butter an entire package of cream cheese half and half and mashes that all together she seasons with pepper and seasoning salt but no regular salt and she finishes it with even more butter this is so buttery you can see it on top it's delicious it's so good midwestern mashed potato deliciousness my favorite mashed potatoes of all the celebrities was definitely oprah's it was very creamy the texture was good it had some like salad potato in there gordon's is my mashed potato first prize winner the two freaking chains dude if you're single and i happen to be single i'll help you find someone cause that does that i don't like him but the potatoes i do i really do i was brought in as the tiebreaker to determine which of these mashed potatoes is the best that's good the skin is in there got a nice little flavor i like the garnish on the top of this this is delicious i love mashed potatoes i just found out that my favorite mashed potatoes are made by gordon ramsay and there you have it the winners gordon ramsay [Music] [Music] oh yes

Channel: Tasty

Views: 7,108,301

Keywords: 2 chainz, K_fe, celeb, celeb chefs, champ, christmas, foodie, gordon ramsay, holiday, kT6a, mashed potatoes, oprah, personalities, potatoes, showdown, tasty, thanksgiving, the pioneer woman, tyler florence, yum

Id: UwrEagOwoBA

Length: 5min 46sec (346 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 27 2017