Dreamfarm Masher ("Smood")
Who doesn’t love mashed potatoes? Whether as a side, a base for fish or meat, or as a ‘refill’ for ‘twice-baked’ potatoes, a thoroughly blended ‘mash’ is one of those cooking essentials for so many delicious dishes! A ‘Mash’ can be almost anything: most commonly potatoes, but transforming avocados into the base of guacamole, or very ripe bananas into the main ingredient of banana bread or baby food, or the yolks of hard cooked eggs for deviled eggs, all require a ‘mash’ ….
The basic goal is to achieve a smooth, evenly spiced blend, to your taste, consistency, and desired end result. Most traditional hand mashers feature ~⅜”/.75mm holes that ‘extrude’ your main ingredient, rather than mash it; these tools do not lead easily to a smooth ‘mash’, without extra, repetitive, jarring effort to breakdown the lumps. But we’ve found a new, easier-to-use tool that allows you to produce a smooth, creamy ‘mash’ with about half the effort: the "Smood" (smooth mash in seconds) from Dreamfarm.
The Smood features a comfortable ergonomic grip on top of a stainless steel spring coil design head, with a silicone scraper on the outermost ring of the tapered cone-shaped spring. The Smood can be used from different directions, but it seems to function best and most naturally in a vertical position. You simply grasp the tapered handle and press down, using moderate force to raise and lower the conical spring into your mixture, trapping it and pushing it through the narrow gaps in the spring coil, and then repeat this up-and-down motion as needed - fewer times than with almost any other masher! - to produce a smooth ‘mash’, in just a few seconds! And a bonus benefit is that the spring coil design absorbs the downward force, reducing the somewhat jarring effect on your wrist that happens with other mashers.
Our basic mashed potatoes recipe starts with peeled potatoes, steamed together with some peeled garlic cloves and placed in a mixing bowl with the right amounts of butter, cream or creme fraiche, maybe some shredded cheese, and salt, pepper, and herbs or other seasoning - again, all to your desired taste. Then grasp your Smood and press onto your ingredients! In just a few presses, the circular spring will mash the ingredients together! When smooth, you can adjust your seasonings and use the silicone bottom edge of the spring to scrape the mixture down into your bowl. From this step, you can prepare and serve the ‘mash’ as desired!
If you started with baked potatoes, then stuff the mixture back into the crisp potato skins and reheat, for the most delicious twice-baked potatoes ever! If you started with sweet potatoes or yams, then you can do the ‘whole Thanksgiving’ thing and add more butter and marshmallows to make a delicious, super-smooth casserole! With avocados, bananas, or deviled eggs, just execute your favorite recipe!
The folks at Dreamfarm designed the Smood to deliver great functionality to simplify your efforts to create the most delicious smooth ‘mash’ dishes ever! Simply put, this is definitely a Cool Tool!
FACTS:
- Stainless Steel shaft and spring masher
- TPE Handle
- Premium grade Silicone scraper - heat resistant to 500F/260C
- Dishwasher safe
- BPA Free
- Overall Length: 11.4”/29cm
- Handle length: 4¼”/10.8cm
- Handle main diameter: 3¾”/9.5cm
- Shaft length: 5½”/14cm
- Spring diameter: 3¾”/9.5cm at widest point
- Spring height: 1¾”/4.4cm
- Scraper length: 2¾ ”/7cm
- All measurements approximated for informational purposes
