Megabytes by John & Sally McKenna April 2001
The Competition
Years ago, restaurants didn't do mash. Mash was proleterian, too simple for serious chefs, too workaday.
Kitchenware from Rosle
And then chefs rediscovered food mills, and mash became sexy. It became sexy for a simple reason; using a potato mill, you could make a mash of ethereal lightness. If you simply use a potato masher, your mash will crash. If you use a mill, you incorporate loads of air into the mash, making it light as a soufflé.
But domestic cooks never latched onto mills. Too much hard work, too much whirling, too much cleaning up, and too much rust. And that was true. You wash a masher in a second, but you have to dismantle and clean every bit of a food mill.
And, then, someone smart amongst those very smart people at Rosle food implements must have said; why should the people not have ethereal mash? Why should the implement stand in their way?
And so they created the Rosle potato mill, and let us tell you that this is one of the greatest, simplest and most effective ways to make magical mash. For one thing, it is so mesmerisingly efficient that it actually works faster than a masher: pile in the spuds, purée them with a few twirls, then finish the dish. The first time you do it, you say; it can¹t be that simple, that quick!? It is. This is an awesome piece of equipment. And, being made of high grade stainless steel, it doesn't rust.
Try the Rosle mill once, and you won't be able to live without it. You can find Rosle implements in all good kitchen shops.
And, the good news, is that we have a Rosle mill as the prize in this month's competition, thanks to Seamus McCarthy Kitchenware, of Nenagh, Co Tipperary, who are the Irish distributors for Rosle.
And, it can be yours simply by filling out this form with your answer to the following:
When she first saw them, Marie Antoinette thought that potato flowers were so pretty that she tucked one into her hair. But who was it that brought the potato flowers to her and King Louis 14?
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