Which do you prefer instant or real mashed potatoes?

I am not really into mashed potatoes. I prefer to fry it and make it like french fries. Also, frying it with mayonnaise, mustard, curry powder with garlic and onions. Tastes spicy and makes me want to eat more.

I prefer real mashed potatoes. I don't even buy instant. I'm pretty boring though, I just cook them in plain salt water.

The only thing instant potatoes are good or is maybe just maybe thickening soup or gravy if it is too thin. Now days I don't peel my potatoes any more. It's too hard on my hands. I like the peeling anyway so does my family good fiber there. I just wash and scrub them real good cut them up and boil them, the get the hand mixer out and whip them up,add some butter milk and salt and pepper and they are ready to eat.

We almost never have mashed potatoes. They just are not my hubby's favorite. I like my potatoes microwaved and eaten skin on, smashed with a fork or whatever. Instant mashed potatoes are good to roll chicken pieces in and oven fry, before the liquid is added to the mashed potatoes, when they are just dry flakes.

I'll happily eat and enjoy instant mashed potatoes, but I always mix something in. A favorite combo is butter, ranch dressing, and bacon bits. But as most are seeming to agree, nothing beats real mashed potatoes. I even like when bits of skin are left in, it's a nice change in texture. Ranch is still pretty tasty on homemade mashed potatoes, but usually butter and a bit of garlic salt is more than enough.

I have never liked instant potatoes either. I have a recipe for sheperd's pie that calls for them on top but i don't keep them on hand so usually just make my own.

I prefer the real thing. Though if I don't have the time to make the real deal I usually use instant. I keep both 10# bag of potatoes plus 2 boxes of instant in the pantry.

i prefer real mashed potatoes, i cant deal with instant mashed potatoes, they dont taste the same to me, and with real mashed potatoes, you can add any ingredent you like and i often like to make them lumpy :) so i think using real potatoes is better you can make a wider varitey

I'm not a big fan of either but I will eat them. I find that instant potatoes come out better though. Fresh mashed potatoes can come out lumpy and lumpy I don't like. This is why I usually stick to baked potatoes instead.

There is no comparison! Only real, fresh potatoes are worth eating, even in the most complicated and overseasoned recipes. You cannot mask the taste and consistency of instant mashed potatoes. They taste sort of like the cardboard box or container they come in. They are watery and bland and do not have the body of real potatoes. My mom had to eat them all the time when she was diagnosed with an ulcer years ago. She did not enjoy her food at all and always felt deprived. Now, of course, they know more about ulcers and this is not the way they are treated. Mashed potatoes, made with lots of butter, sometimes roasted garlic, sometimes sour cream and/or s&p and other seasonings and lots of good gravy are a wonderful comfort food. There are even restaurants that specialize in mashed potatoes with different toppings, like cheese, ranch dressing, other sauces and condiments. Yummy. Yukon Golds are especially flavorful.

Hi Christmas..Ya know, if never ceases to amaze me why anyone would spend their money on instant potatoes when real ones are so easy to make and so much better. There is no comparison in my view. Especially mashed potatoes..those fake things remind me of school and hospitals... I hate that shiny look they have..what the heck chemical is that anyway? Thats what my family called them, "chemical potatoes" Anyway, why make those companies rich when the real thing is so available and so good for you, chemical free...

like you, as much as possible i prefer all my diet is fresh and natural, cause it is more eating food this way...like you username..

I love mashed potatoes too and I like making it myself cause its really better than instant ones. I have my own preference when it comes to potatoes and what they have in the instantly prepared is not one of my preferences.

i like instant potatos because i do not like mashed i have to bae it.

your 1 of a kind lass, not many people make home made REAL potatoes anymore. BRAVO