Smash Instant Mashed Potatoes

Did you know that every potato is peeled then cooked in steam which helps to retain the flavour and then the potatoes are dried and formed into flaky pieces for your convenience? I can see that you don't look impressed and I don't really blame you! But I will tell you that the Smash makes a pretty decent fishcake. Just last week I was racking my brains trying to think of something different for supper. Bingo! Home made fish cakes, then I looked in the vegetable rack and groaned, not a potato in sight, OK if you counted the hairy ones that had some six inch sprouts I had four! I am no big fan ... more

I'm not a good cook. I don't mean that I burn things, or that I can't cook a nice meal, or that I get the white wine mixed up with the bleach. But I panic. I get very flustered in the kitchen, especially when attempting to co-ordinate meals that say... Have one or more things that need to go in the oven, at different heats and for different times. So, occasionally, I'll forget something. I might ...boil up a pan of water for the veggies, only to forget to put the veggies in the pan. Or I might forget to turn the oven down halway through cooking a roast and burn it to a crisp. I've learned to ... more

SMASH is exactly what it says on the tin "Mash in a Minute". In it's bright red packaging, The word SMASH is splashed across the front in a kinda smooth bubble writing, in a mash potato colour I suppose. As if someone just piped the word smash onto a stripe of blue stuck onto the red packaging. There's also a picture of your SMASH as part of a meal, with a sausage and some peas... hmmm.... For the purposes of accuracy, I should probably mention that I'm going to talk about the 350g tin of this instant goodness, but they also come in 100g sachets. I love SMASH so much! I re-discovered it when I ... more

I do like to cook meals from scratch but sometimes there just isn't the time so I like to have a few very fast items in the cupboard such as tinned products and this instant mashed potato so that I can mix together a meal for myself or my other half in a rush. Smash is incredibly easy to make you just measure out the portion as per the instructions on the packet or to make as much mash as you require (everyone is different aren't they - I like a lot, my other half doesn't!) and then you boil the kettle and add hot water, mix it together & hey presto you've got mashed potato. This does come in ... more

The idea for the title of this review of Smash Potato came from my dad, not me, so he takes the credit! I know this my sound odd to some people, but I really do like the strange taste of Smash Potato. It doesn't taste like real potatoes and obvioulsy the only way you can eat it is in its 'mashed' form, by this, I mean you can't have it in the tradtional whole potato form! It's rehydrated potato, which you make by adding boiled water to it. I'm told that some people don't like the taste and that it tastes artificial. It probably does take a little bit of getting used to, but I actually love it ... more