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Can mashed potatoes be made early and kept in crock pot to be kept warm?
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∙ 13y ago
Yes. Keeping mashed potatoes on low and covered in a crock pot is an excellent way to keep them warm. Another idea (if the crock is busy with other things) is to use a hot water bath. Just place the bowl of mashed potatoes inside another bowl of warm to hot water. Use kettle water to replenish the heat of the water bath when necessary.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 13y agoMashed potatoes can be made early, although they probably shouldn't be made TOO far ahead of time as they are at their best when they are first made. If you have a crock pot with a low enough setting that it would keep them warm without browning the potatoes around the edge, I don't see why you couldn't do that.
But there's a way you can make them so that they will naturally retain a lot of heat for a while. Instead of boiling the potato cubes, I steam them. I remove them from the steamer, where they are hot, and not at all waterlogged like boiled potatoes. Heat butter and either (1) milk (2) half and half or (3) cream almost to the boil. You must combine all the ingredients together HOT. Nothing cold or room temperature except salt and possibly herbs touches the mashed potatoes when they are made. The steaming hot newly mashed potatoes absorb so much more liquid, they are light and creamy and wonderful.
I will make a ten pound bags' worth at a time, so I have a very large bowls' worth, and they will retain the heat, even without covering, for a very long time, they're still quite warm an hour later.
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∙ 13y agoi don't see why not...but i wouldn't try to keep them warm for longer than an hour. they could possibly keep cooking and end up doing something weird like falling apart or becoming a different texture. or they could dry out.
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