Potato masher

Potato Masher are basic kitchen equipment for crushing of soft-boiled potatoes, other vegetables or fruits. They consist of a vertical shaft with a top handle and a lower horizontal plate made ​​of perforated sheet metal or a sturdy wire grating. There is also a very existing wooden variant of a cylinder with a handle mounted in a hole. Therefore, the similarly shaped stick grenades had with the German Wehrmacht nicknamed " potato masher ".

Potato masher used to produce potatoes, baby food, applesauce and the like. Today, they are often displaced by kitchen mixer that deal, however due to their high speed less gentle with the ingredients. Alternatives to potato masher ricer and are Flotte Lotte.