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ricer

ricer

4 7.9
A kitchen tool that presses cooked potatoes through small holes to make a texture like rice
  • noun
  • /ˈraɪsər/
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  • I now have to go to the store and buy a potato ricer.
  • potato ricer

You know, I might be peeling potatoes, which then would be cooked, boiled and then riced with a special ricer.

Examples

  • Will this potato ricer work if I have already boiled potatoes and cooled them in the fridge overnight?

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  • Make a batter rather than a dough, then squeeze through the ricer directly into boiling water.

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  • I have a ricer, so I was able to squeeze out all the water from the potato.

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  • I've been the proud owner of a potato ricer since I was a teen.

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  • I originally purchased my ricer to take all the moisture out of frozen spinach.

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  • The use of the ricer is really clever and, to me, less messy than dealing with a dishtowel.

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  • If using a potato masher or ricer, peel potatoes as instructed above.

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  • On uses for the potato ricer: my sister used to use hers for making spaetzle, the South German dumplings.

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  • To make creamy mashed potatoes, use a ricer to press the cooked potatoes into a smooth texture.

  • After boiling the potatoes, pass them through a ricer for a fluffy consistency.

Synonyms

masher
vsricer
4 2.8

A kitchen tool with a flat top used to mash potatoes and other vegetables

creates a uniform rice like texture by pressing through small holes

How Fine

mill
20 2.2
sieve
18 2.4
ricer
4 7.9

Surface Forms

ricer singular
ricers plural

Morphology

ricer = rice (semi-transparent) = rice + er

The noun is transparently formed with the agent/instrument suffix '-er', but the culinary verb 'rice' is specialized and may not be familiar to many learners.

Etymology

Ricer comes from the verb rice, which means to press food into small pieces that look like 'rice', so a ricer is a kitchen tool that turns cooked foods like potatoes into a rice-like texture.