How do you grate potatoes?

Question

I'm making hash browns, but I have a minor problem...I cant seem to get past step 1: grate the potatoes.????????? Are you supposed to use a chees grater or something? HELP!

Answer 1

Remember those 4 sided graters your mom probably had in her kitchen? One side had slots, one side had a coarse grater, one side a fine grater, and the fourth side a very coarse grater? The one with holes big enough to stick your pinky finger through?

Use that grater.

Answer 2

A box grater works best! Just below a boil cook the potatos with the peel on until a knife goes in the potato with no effort. Cool. Peel. Then grate.

Answer 3

Use a box grater, like the one below. It looks like a cheese grater, but the different sides have appropriate holes for grating vegetables.

Answer 4

I use a cheese grater, but watch your knuckles or you will get bloody fingers. You must cook the potatoes right away or else they turn black. I can cook really well, but I never get my hash browns to come out well. I'd recommend buying frozen hash browns and cooking them that way. Mine always get mushy when I use fresh potatoes.

Answer 5

Hi! I make hashbrowns all the time, and first you need to boil the potatoes until they are just kinda soft. They still stay on a frok if you stab a potato. let them cool a bit them take a cheese grater and away you go. Good luck

Answer 6

I'M known to do things the hard way but I in joy the outcome . I peal the potatoes and grate them with the food processer at that stage they look terrable but when washed in cold water
they look nice and white I then give them a spin in the salad spinner to dry them dump them on a kitchen towel and pat them dryer put them in a skillet with hot oil with a lid for the pan in one hand to keep oil from popping out as soon as the popping stops remove lid to keep steam from forming looks just like store bought
jim b

Answer 7

You can use a potato peeler actually