Puts the hassle in Hassleback.
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So I guess you ain't no hassleback girl, you ain't no hassleback girl!
I remember my mom trying to make Hasslback potatoes.
It turned out not well. (No cream, her knife skills are... well lets just say 1/2 was as thin as they got. oh. and did i mention no cream?)
Are you thinking about scalloped potatoes? Hasselbäck with cream is news to me.
They need something on top.
Personally I love adding shredded cheddar for the last bit so it gets baked on, sour cream and chives.
I made a ton of them while learning knife skills. They are way too much work versus tastier options, but they look pretty.
They look so sad and not nearly enough cream. I usually slice all my potatoes, toss them in the cream mixture, then stack them in the dish Hasselback style and they always come out perfect, Crispy on top, creamy and moist in the middle and bottom
Where are you getting cream from? There's no cream in Hasselback potatoes?
My mistake, I make a hassleback style au gratin.
I'm sorry but there is nothing hasselback-style about scalloped potatoes.
You are making scalloped potatoes.
This would be like saying that you make your pizza spaghetti-style but then you just make pizza.
Hassleback refers to the cut of the potato as well as the dish itself.
Scalloped potatoes are traditionally layered and stacked, mine are vertically arranged similar to hassleback so there's a combination of crispy edges with the creaminess of au gratin.
no, no, I'm certain I've seen this dish before. That's ratatouille!
seriously, though. That looks good.
Though similar in presentation, ratatouille is traditionally made with tomatoes, zucchini, peppers, onions, or eggplant. Veggies
it's a [not obvious I suppose] joke
You're making scalloped potatoes.
Can you not see the irrationality in trying to connect your preparation to this preparation?
It's just as irrational to say that I made scalloped-potatoes style and ended up with this hassle back. I mean, come on.
No need to try and be rude, there are literally hundreds of recipes called hassleback au gratin, hassleback scalloped, or variations of that. Like I said, hassleback also refers to the presentation, not just the specific recipe.
That sounds lush, tbf.
This, yep. 100%. 🤌🏼
It's not that difficult to do, just requires some knife skills and not rushing. But I never liked the finished results. It's crispy on the outside and mushy on the inside.
I always liked this method. It’s crispy on the outside and mushy on the inside.
I respect that some people have different opinions on the same thing.
I don't.
I think everybody should have the same opinion.
I agree with this, and so should everybody else.
Can get the same crispiness just using a mandolin to completely slice it up. Leaving it connected makes little sense, considering how much more effort it takes cutting it by hand.
Mandolin and a skewer to keep them togehther-ish in the oven.
it's how I keep onion rings together while grilling them. (actually, i use poultry dressing scewers for that. they're the perfect size. Tab them through the layers, then slice between them. Marinade in salt, vinegar and olive oil. Grill on high till... uh... grilled.)
I would never make this again.
I mean, I could tell based on my understanding of physics and cooking that it was not going to turn out as one would hope.
But I plowed through and made it anyways. In the end, every single concern I had about this preparation rang true.
I knew going in that it couldn't possibly cook consistently because the bottom would be a solid mass and the top would be split apart with varying gaps.
I knew that convection would not carry the moisture away from the bottom of the fins but it would desiccate the tops properly. I felt that the tops 1/3 would have crispy delicious skins but the base would have tough leather. I was right.
I knew that applying an oil to the top was a delicate game because it would just saturate if it penetrated to the lower part.
I feel like this is a misbegotten recipe. A big series of fanciful ideas that are visually impressive but do not deliver in the taste department. Seems like it's from a time before cooking science was well understood.
Sometimes I think the highest regarded dishes are about the way they look rather than the process, execution, or the taste. The more I learn to cook, the more I appreciate the nuance of each step!
Maybe next time you could try lower heat for longer. Or not, if this is not for you, you do you.
Physics prevents this from being cooked anything other than inconsistently.
As the fins rise and spread out, the amount of moisture that can dissipate can be plotted on a curve with the bottom of the potato always representing the least amount of moisture dissipation, and the outer part at the top always having the most.
And it gets more complicated because as the potato curves on each axis it becomes thinner on the edges so there's a gradient in moisture dissipation there too.
In a practical sense this means that every X, Y, Z point on this potato is cooked different. Some points will be perfect but by definition it means other points will not and cannot be perfect. And other points must be awful.
There is a fundamental flaw in this design, which changing the temperature or cooking duration cannot solve.
I mean, I've had this prepared professionally and it was exceptional and consistent. And I knew immediately I probably didn't ever want to prepare it myself.
Too much delta t leads to too much delta T.
I wonder if the tater could be sous vide after slicing to perfect temp and then somehow flash crusted. Similar idea to twice cooked fries that are boiled, frozen, then fried.
To get a more consistently cooked product, I think the geometry of the surface would need to change or we would need to use a cooking device that could deliver a different amounts of heat energy to different points.
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