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How has no one said a loaded baked potato.

Large large potato Stuffed with shredded chicken or pulled pork, bacon, sour cream, cheese, and chives, then bbq sauce or some hot sauce.

That's perfect use for a potato.

Potato scones. Paired with Lorne sausage and you have the best breakfast ever.

Potato plants

Chips

Kesselsknall. A German recipe, basically a large hash brown with bacon and sausage, baked in an oven.

Mashed, but the key is lots of cream cheese

French fries (from Belgium with mayonnaise)

Twice-baked potatoes. Bake them, lay them on the side, slice the top off, scoop out the potato while leaving the skin intact like a little boat. Mash the spuds with butter, sour cream, seasoning salt, cheese, and bacon bits (scallions too if you like them - I don’t), scoop back into the potato, shred more cheese on top, bake until melted.

Perfection.

Food aside, I've used disposable spoons/forks/knives made of potato as a plastic alternative. Unlike pretty much every similar product that has a weird taste/texture or shit durability, the potato ones were pretty much indistinguishable from plastic except that the texture was kinda higher traction if that makes any sense. Like it'd kinda grab your lips a bit as they were sliding across a spoon, vs the plastic version is slightly less friction.

But, you stop noticing that after like the third bite.

Haven't seen them used in years, so no idea if they're still being produced, but it seemed like a golden standard to replace plastic the few times I used it.

/shrug

I think that "best" is tough, but some that I like:

• Smashed potatoes. More texture than mashed. I favor olive oil over butter.

• Uno's

a US Chicago-style pizza chain

has an appetizer that they call "pizza skins", which is a deep dish pizza basically containing loaded mashed potatoes. I think that it's pretty good, better than their regular pizzas.

More potatoes.

This

pierogi, duh

yes

1. Boil them

2. Mash them

3. Stick them in a stew

Ireland.

Vodka

I've been pan frying pre boiled potatoes for breakfast instead of toast. Pop a couple of fried eggs on top. Vege snags and caramelised onion on the side. 🤌🤌🤌

Tots dude. They're basically cylindrical hashbrowns. You can eat them straight up with some sauce, throw them in a breakfast burrito, or use them as the base for a casserole

I love all kinds but I make a mean mashed potato so I'll pick that as the frontrunner.

Roast potatoes! My grandmother made the best roast potatoes in the pan as the roast beef dripped fat down on them; they were amazing, but it's sad that the meat had to be sacrificed to make them that way...

I'm struggling to decide between hasselback, mashed, potato cakes, and scalloped.

To make matters worse, I have discovered the existence of bloomin potatoes and pommes anna.

The better question is to ask what's the worst thing made from potatoes. It's potatoes, boil them, mash them, stick them in a stew, can't go wrong.

Poutine

According to Taste Atlas, it's Kartupeļu pankūkas.

https://www.tasteatlas.com/best-rated-potato-dishes-in-the-world

Patatas Bravas

Really, really well made mashed potates is heavenly.

Combine with the grease from some meat you're serving it with... Yum.

I'm not proud to admit it, but it is the McDonalds French Fries.

Theres also Potato Olés from Taco Johns which is not as good but still up there.

Behind that is probably a fully loaded Baked Potato with sour cream, green onion, cheddar, etc.

Chunked and roasted in either butter or beef tallow, with garlic