Copycat Waffle House Hash Browns Recipe | CDKitchen.com (2024)

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What makes Waffle House hash browns so good? ›

How Waffle House Does Hash Browns Best. Here's what you should know about how they make hash browns at Waffle House: They start with dehydrated potatoes (not flakes for making mashed potatoes). The reconstituted potatoes are well-drained and cooked on a flat-top griddle with a generous amount of butter-flavored oil.

Rinse and Dry Your Potatoes!

I use my hands and sometimes a paper towel (or tea towel). You want as much starch and moisture out as possible for perfectly golden and crisp potatoes. I've also just run cold water over potatoes in a mesh strainer and mixed them around with my hands for a few minutes.

Hash browns, also spelled hashed browns and hashbrowns, are a popular American breakfast dish consisting of finely julienned potatoes that have been fried until golden browned.

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When you grate whole potatoes for hash browns, do it directly over a bowl with cold water. Let the potatoes sit in the water for at least 15 minutes, for best results overnight. The water will remove all the excess starch from the potatoes and will solve any graying issues and will give you crispier potatoes as well!

Flour and starch are commonly used to help hash browns stick together. You can add an egg if you like, but the flour mix is sufficient.

Starchy potatoes like Russets work best for hash browns. Waxy potatoes like red new potatoes have a higher moisture content and tend to hold their shape better than starchy potatoes, and as such do not develop the crispiest of edges when fried.

Scattered: The cook will spread the hash browns across the grill to get them ultra-crispy (otherwise they're grilled in a steel ring and served more patty-style). Smothered: If you're interested in aromatics, you'll ask for onions to be sautéed alongside your hash browns.

Contrary to what you might assume, it isn't melted butter. Instead, as a Waffle House employee revealed on TikTok, the breakfast chain uses Kaola Gold butter-flavored pan and griddle shortening.

Olive oil is preferred but I used vegetable in the ingredient round up photo – when I was little, the oil used was regular grade olive oil. Now that I'm older, I use extra virgin olive oil and it's the best for making crispy hash browns that are eaten right away. Vegetable and canola oil can also be used as substitute.

Why do my homemade hash browns turn GREY? ›

A: Exposure to air or oxygen is the cause of this situation when the potatoes are cut and stored in advance for any future cooking.

If you don't eliminate enough liquid (from the potatoes that you, again, just soaked in water), they will get soggy instead of crispy, a.k.a. a total bummer.

Potatoes are processed into HASH BROWN by, peeling, cutting into strips, blanching, drying/ cooling, shredding, mixing with ingredients, forming, partial frying and freezing the product between –12°C to -18°C. to -18C.

The waffle house grill operator cooks 2 eggs in what looks to be a stainless steel pan and then lets 2 slices of real American cheese melt in a small cast iron skillet. Then they add the cooked scrambled eggs onto the melty cheese.