Can someone please help me???

[luckies4me]

It must be regional. "Home fries" are not french fries at all here. "Home fries" are either shredded or cubed bits of potatoe served usually with breakfast type meals.

I like them all. Even McDonald's hash browns!

I love McDonald's hash browns. Their breakfast food is my guilty pleasure.

[luckies4me]

I think of home fries as the cubed fried potatoes like you do, mostly eaten as a breakfast item. Hash browns they have at Perkins and are shredded potatoes which in my opinion they never brown up enough so I don't order them any longer. Hash browns are also the formed patties of shredded potatoes that McDonald's sells. But hash is definitely shredded.

If your significant other is a man, never send them to the store. They will mess it up on purpose so you don't send them again.

LOL. Too funny!

[luckies4me]

I hate to disagree with my esteemed sister, but Home Fries are cubes of potato fried in a pan or on a griddle with various and sundry things added in, onions, bacon, peppers, etc.

Hash Browns are shredded potatoes fried on a grill.

The things McD's sells as hash browns are oversized 'tater tots.

Thank you!!! And totally agree with you on the Mic D's being oversized tater tots. As far as driving, I don't drive.

[Laura's Babies]

I learned a long time ago and in cooking for people from all over the USA on those boats, that different people call the same things different names.

[cassiesmom]

I hate to disagree with my esteemed sister, but Home Fries are cubes of potato fried in a pan or on a griddle with various and sundry things added in, onions, bacon, peppers, etc.

I didn't know those were called home fries. I understand home fries to be long, rectangularly cut deep-fried potatoes. (Like oversized French fries) But I'd like a big serving of the LH version of home fries, please! No bacon in mine, though. Do I put some oil or butter in the pan before I saute it? Do I start with cooked potatoes and how big should the cubes be?

[Cataholic]

To make the best home fries, I think you need to start with cooked potatoes, though it is hard to handle them. Maybe partially cook them. And, use a press to absorb some of the water, or drain them. And, use a heavy duty cast iron skillet. I like them 'well done' (i.e., burnt). Throw in some onion, OO, and just fry them. Never really taste the same.

[Lady's Human]

I use cooked potatoes, preferably cooled, then saute in the aforementioned heavy cast iron frying pan with onions, butter, and peppers, with just a touch of paprika, salt and pepper. Fry them until they're well browned.

Goes really well with an omelet. When I really cook breakfast, it takes me a while.

[catnapper]

I think of sliced potatoes that have a nice ccrunchy edge from being in the frying pan but the interior is soft. Hashbrowns are hashbrowns, a completely different food.

[redbird]

Home fries I think of as thickly cut french fries, like steak fries, I guess. Hash browns are the cubes potatoes fried in a ban with maybe bacon and onion. or those kinda gross "patties" served at fast-food places that are simply shredded potatoes.

That!!!

[luckies4me]

I think of sliced potatoes that have a nice ccrunchy edge from being in the frying pan but the interior is soft. Hashbrowns are hashbrowns, a completely different food.

Exactly!