re: no matter how you shape, form or press a tator tot, it is not a hash brown

Frozen tater tots make the best homemade hash browns. Period.

Sauté some jalapeños and onion in bacon grease.
Add frozen tater tots.

As they thaw, break them apart with a wooden spatula until it’s just shredded potatoes.

Serve with good ketchup and hot sauce.

You won’t do hash browns any other way, except to use different toppings.

Here is the poop.

Hash Browns is hash browns.

Tater Tots is Tater Tots.

Never were intended to be the same.

I love both, but there will always be that special place in my heart for Tater Tots.

By the way, I think the photo you show is a Tater Cake. Per the above, it is not hash browns or Tater Tots and should not be confused with either.

I'm not sure what the taters cubes are, As you said, they are not really hash browns, and those of us in the Tater Tots camp don't want them either.

By the way, IMO, the Ore Ida crinkle cut French fry is the GOAT French Fry.


Thanks for allowing me to voice my opinion. I do not expect others to agree, because this is a very personal matter to most folks.




Oh, by the way, not all tots are created equal and some are not worthy.

Friend of mine at at Stab’s Friday night and told me his homemade tater tots were frozen in the middle.

Yeah I’ll pass. My wife can do that at home.

Shut your whore mouth.

McDonald’s hash browns are the best.

Don't care-love them all.

I'm with you on the potatoes. When I order hash browns and I get those potatoes I'm always mad about it. Just called them diced potatoes. However, the patty IS a hash brown.