au gratin potatoes > mashed potatoes

[brainhulk]

/foodcoma
have to go to work, sucks

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[balloonshark]

I'm going to agree with you. Both are tasty but the nod goes to au gratin.

 

[BoomerD]

Depends on the meal. I LOVES ME some good au gratin and/or scalloped potatoes...but I also loves me some good smashed taters and gravy.

 

[Newbian]

They are good but it's hard to have a sandwich with them compared to mashed potatoes who hold your turkey in place on freshly cooked buns.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Yes, au gratin is better than mashed, but also more difficult to prepare. That said, mashed can be pretty damn good, especially if its made with those little red or white potatoes and nod those awful russet potatoes, and keep the skin, and add a bit of cream when mixing them ...

 

[eldorado99]

It isn't a fair comparison IMO. One is more or less just potatoes, while the other one is potato casserole.

 

[MongGrel]

I have all ways referred to them as scalloped myself, I like both depending on what with.

Have a nice big dish of leftover au gratin in the fridge

Mashed with meatloaf any day.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Most things improve when covered with melted cheese.

 

[MongGrel]

Most things improve when covered with melted cheese.

Yes it does, but we still use the old scalloped potato recipe in a Better Homes and Gardens 1000+ page paperback I've had for ages with no cheese most of the time. The pages in that thing are even yellow now.

I guess they have a cheese version of it online too.

http://www.bhg.com/recipe/vegetables/scalloped-potatoes/

Ramen.

 

[BoomerD]

I have all ways referred to them as scalloped myself, I like both depending on what with.

Have a nice big dish of leftover au gratin in the fridge

Mashed with meatloaf any day.

Au gratin and scalloped aren't the same thing. Au gratin has cheese...scalloped is just a milk or cream-based sauce. (there can be some other differences...but they're usually minor.)

 

[MongGrel]

Au gratin and scalloped aren't the same thing. Au gratin has cheese...scalloped is just a milk or cream-based sauce. (there can be some other differences...but they're usually minor.)

A lot of people seem to lump them together in general a lot of the time though.

I actually prefer scalloped, which is what is in the fridge

Smashed Taters and Gravy any day for Meatloaf/Beef Manhattan's.

Those were some odd Hoosier thing growing up. On bread.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beef_Manhattan

 

[brainhulk]

Is it really much harder to make au gratin? Seems to me mashing the potatoes would take longer than slicing them

 

[Herr Kutz]

Only if you suck at making mashed potatoes.