I'm a chef... here is why YOU have been making your mash potato WRONG

A chef has revealed their secret to making the creamiest possible mash potato while sharing the mistake many people make when cooking them. 

Rosemary Gill,the director of education at the Boston-based Milk Street Cooking School,took to TikTok to share her recipe for the comforting foodstuff. 

Posting to the social media platform under the cookery school's handle @177milkstreet,she said: 'Simmer your mashed potatoes in milk,not water,potatoes are like paste,they release starches into their cooking liquid.

'That becomes liquid gold - allowing us to get lush,silky,creamy,mashed potatoes.

'When you throw out water that you cook your potatoes in,you throw all the starch down the drain,so you're wasting it. 

@177milkstreet Simmer your mashed potatoes in milk,not water! Potatoes are like pasta,in that they leach starches into their cooking liquid. In the case of pasta,you want to reserve some of that liquid to give sauce a luscious shine and bind it to the noodles. In mashed potatoes,cooking in milk,and preserving that starchy liquid,gives your potatoes a natural creaminess and allows you to skip the weighty heavy cream. #MilkStreetCookingSchool director Rosie Gill demonstrates. #milkstreet #milkstreetrecipes #milkstreetsides #sidesrecipes #thanksgiving #thanksgivingrecipes #potatoes #potatorecipes #mashedpotatoes #mashedpotatorecipes #vegetables #milkstreetrecipes #holiday #holidayrecipes #food #cooking #easyrecipes

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Posting to the social media platform under the cookery school's handle @177milkstreet,they release starches into their cooking liquid

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