Where can I find the best hash browns in the slope?

Or where can I find hash browns at all??

I like the ones served at the Chip shop with Brunch. Forget that... those are home fries.
I guess I don't even like hash browns.

Mc Donalds

In your grocers freezer.



I like to cook mine on a skillet in butter.Salt them a little and then dip them in sour cream.Mmm..I think I'll go buy some later.

See, now THOSE are good with ketchup! :twisted: / :jocolor:

^^Nope.Ketchup only with fries and on a hot dog.

Mmm.,..ketchup hot dog.Thanks for the reminder,BFF.I'm gonna have some for dinner tonight just for you!. :bounce:

Em26 wrote: ^^Nope.Ketchup only with fries and on a hot dog.

Mmm.,..ketchup hot dog.Thanks for the reminder,BFF.I'm gonna have some for dinner tonight just for you!. :bounce:

NOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

^LMAO!

So, are hash browns a regional thing, i.e. not a new york thing?

I'm originally from the west coast and assumed they were a universal breakfast thing.

I grew up on LI, and we always had hash browns in the diners. Plus, my ex used to make them for me every weekend for breakkie. His family was Irish. I'd think anyplace with Irish immigrants would have them, no?

I still don't understand hash browns v. home fries.

I want potatoes, onions and seasoning (mostly salt and pepper). I hate that so many places put green peppers in them. Blech.

How about a little red pepper in the home fried.. Flexi?

I like that because it gives a little color. I don't like green peppers in anything.. they have a sharp, distinctive taste I associate with my childhood before every market had yellow and orange peppers.

No red pepper (unless it's hot red pepper flakes). I hate all bell peppers - red, yellow, green or orange.

I do eat them cooked in things, like salsa, but anytime peppers are put into food and taken out, I can still taste their stink.

you mean you don't know the difference between home fries and hash browns? or that you don't understand why anyone would eat home fries when there are such things as hash browns in the world?

(choice B is correct.)

Flexi, if you are having trouble with the first question:
the potato chunks in home fries are much larger than hash browns.

I don't understand the difference. I assume(d) hash browns are smaller bits of potatoes, but I have had diners tell me when they made home fries that home fries have peppers and hash browns don't. Other places have told me the reverse.

Flexichick wrote: No red pepper (unless it's hot red pepper flakes). I hate all bell peppers - red, yellow, green or orange.

I do eat them cooked in things, like salsa, but anytime peppers are put into food and taken out, I can still taste their stink.

Um I think salsa is raw?

Home fries are made of sliced potatoes. Hash browns are made of shredded potatoes. Both can be delicious; it depends on the execution.

scarlett wrote: [quote=Flexichick]No red pepper (unless it's hot red pepper flakes). I hate all bell peppers - red, yellow, green or orange.

I do eat them cooked in things, like salsa, but anytime peppers are put into food and taken out, I can still taste their stink.

Um I think salsa is raw?

Some are, some are cooked. Some I like, others I hate. Pico de gallo is raw, but doesn't have bell peppers. I think some of the stuff you see in a jar (Tostitos, etc.) has been cooked, which changes the taste.

Hash browns are made from shredded potatoes and home fries are chunks. Also I believe hash browns only have onions and salt and pepper in them as opposed to home fries that have onions and green peppers (which i also don't like) in them

Would love some hash browns as opposed to home fries

LongTimeSloper wrote: =Also I believe hash browns only have onions and salt and pepper in them as opposed to home fries that have onions and green peppers (which i also don't like) in them=

not necessarily.

Carnivore wrote: Home fries are made of sliced potatoes. Hash browns are made of shredded potatoes. Both can be delicious; it depends on the execution.

that nails the definition for me.

Addition of peppers or whatever is an addition.

the ones at flatbush farm are really good but no longer on the menu.

Thanks for the waffle house image. I remain suspicious of their claim (floating above the golden image of hash browns) that there are 1,572,864 ways to order hash browns there. If its true, however, someone should give that chef a Michelin.

veets wrote: [quote=Carnivore]Home fries are made of sliced potatoes. Hash browns are made of shredded potatoes. Both can be delicious; it depends on the execution.

that nails the definition for me.

Addition of peppers or whatever is an addition.

I think this is what messed me up. When my ex made them, he used big potatoes, onions and seasoning and called them "hash browns". So did his entire family and all of his friends.

Flexichick wrote: [quote=veets][quote=Carnivore]Home fries are made of sliced potatoes. Hash browns are made of shredded potatoes. Both can be delicious; it depends on the execution.

that nails the definition for me.

Addition of peppers or whatever is an addition.

I think this is what messed me up. When my ex made them, he used big potatoes, onions and seasoning and called them "hash browns". So did his entire family and all of his friends.

well thank god you dodged that bullet!

^seriously :-)

sweet tea wrote: [quote=LongTimeSloper]=Also I believe hash browns only have onions and salt and pepper in them as opposed to home fries that have onions and green peppers (which i also don't like) in them=

not necessarily.


Woe! So, then the difference is shredded potato versus chunks?

Now, where do we get hash browns?? LOL

Appplewood used to have a version of hashbrowns but I guess they don't anymore...

Your best bet is to buy them from the store:
http://www.simplypotatoes.com/products/index.cfm

I'm originally from the midwest and they are a staple on every breakfast menu...I don't know why it's all American fries out here? I've seen them in the south, the west and practically everywhere but New York. Strange.

Better link...they have them at most grocery stores in PS in the dairy aisle (usually)

http://www.simplypotatoes.com/products/productview.cfm?prid=34

They are very good and you can make them smothered, covered, and scattered to your expanding heart's content.

pastoralia wrote: Better link...they have them at most grocery stores in PS in the dairy aisle (usually)

http://www.simplypotatoes.com/products/productview.cfm?prid=34

They are very good and you can make them smothered, covered, and scattered to your expanding heart's content.

this sounds good from the site:

Cheesy Hash Brown Cups

I think homefries may be steamed or blanched before being sauteed. Hash browns are sliced, formed somewhat and fried.