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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am the designated person who always brings mashed potatoes for Friendsgiving.  We generally have 16 adults, no kids in attendance. I buy a 10 pound bag of potatoes, peel them, boil them, mash them.  Then I put in gobs of already melted butter (like 2 pounds) and stir in.  Then add gobs of sour cream and stir in.  Then salt and pepper and a bit of garlic powder.  Then I put it all in my 7 quart crockpot, which just about fills it up.  I finish it all up 2 -3 hours before we leave to go to the home of the hosts.  I keep the crockpot on low for the two hours at our house before we leave.  Stir and check occasionally.  Bring it over there and plug it in until time to eat.  I also bring 3 jars of chicken gravy.

10 pounds of potatoes is just about the right amount for 16 adults.  For 40 people you would need to make mashed potatoes with 30 pounds of potatoes. [/quote]

I dug through pages of past posts to find this one. I just read this

https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/11/mashed-potatoes-recipe-best-butter-butter-butter.html

and I wanted to acknowledge the genius of this PP. According to this article, they have cracked the code. The article found that the bon appétit recipe that yielded the best mashed potatoes achieved a metric of 62 GFPPP (grams of fat per pound of potato), but PP has left Bon appétit in the dust with an astounding 77 GFPPP (assuming 376.82 g fat per one lb (454 g) potatoes). And actually, that is an underestimate due to the sour cream.

Apparently the best mashed potatoes are essentially a potato buttercream frosting with salt instead of sugar!

I won’t dare to go to 77 GFPPP, but I am upping the butter this year due to PP! And adding sour cream.

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I am the person who is the designated bringer of mashed potatoes to Thanksgiving (and Christmas) dinners.
Anthony Bourdain has a recipe that uses even more butter than I use.  
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/recipe-anthony-bourdains-mashed-potatoes-kind-of-robuchon-style/

I saw a movie a few years ago called, "The last Holiday." In the movie, Queen Latifah learns cooking secrets from the best chef in the world.  The chef said that the secret to really tasty food is butter.  That's all. Butter.   :) 
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