Anemic Hash Browns - !

[sandylc]

Has anyone else encountered pale, floppy hash browns lately in restaurants? I have recently ordered them in two popular, upscale diner-y type restaurants and received very disappointing piles of barely colored shreds. What's up with that? Where did crispy brown exteriors get gone to?

[pinehurst]

In my hash brown days, I took to ordering them "well done", because I kept getting piles of pale potatoes and undercooked onions. Blurgh.

Now I order grilled tomatoes. It confounds them, but they're hard to mess up.

[EWSflash]

I ordered them well done once, and what i got was a wad of hash browns that somebody had squished together (stil had the finger marks on it) and thrown in a deep fryer for a couple of minutes.

[laliz]

the same thing is true with toast these days. Its like they wave the bread at the toaster or something and call it done. I order both HB and toast well done and hope for the best.

[Jelly71]

I have the exact opposite experience. I always order my English muffin "lightly toasted" and 50% of the time, I am brought a charcoal briquette that was once an English muffin.

[tim irvine]

As a former fry cook I learned to hate making hash browns because they take a lot of time to get right, take up a lot of griddle space, and, once at their peak, get dry and tough quickly. You can't rush them. I love making them at home. Also, if you have ever had dinner at a Palm, they "get" hash browns. nY strip rare, hash browns, creamed spinach, and a double martini...mmmmm. Hash browns are definitely not just breakfast food!

[PotatoHouse]

This has been a constant pain in my donkey!!!! It appears that if I want GOOD hash browns I have to make them at home. Most places don't even season them properly if at all.