8 Mistakes You're Probably Making When Cooking Mashed Potatoes

Chef Tyler Florence's mashed potato recipe has a hack to end them all: cook the potatoes in cream instead of water. "Potatoes have a really delicate, beautiful minerality to their flavor profile, and when you cook potatoes in water and you pour that water down the drain, you've extracted all the flavor of the potato," he told us when explaining the method. If you're going to add butter and cream to your potatoes anyway, you might as well cook them in the flavorful mixture (along with garlic and herbs) and then fold it back into the potatoes after draining them.