When you go to a restaurant for breakfast and order hash browns, how do you prefer them cooked?

I didn't know there were certain ways you could cook a hash brown.

both sides when i have them, which isn't often!

I like it sort of crunchy.....

No preference.

I haven't eaten hash browns in a long time.

Cooked on both sides...crispy on the outside and soft in the middle.

smothered and covered

When I used to be a chef at Carrows Restaurant,we would cook the hash browns on both sides.I assumed that every restaurant cooked it that way.

But,when it is served to me,I like mine crispy golden brown on both sides,with a squeeze of lemon on it.NO KETCHUP!! Two over midium eggs,with Lop Chong(Chinese sausage),Scottish Banger,Bacon,Chicken Fried Steak,or Spam.Mmmmmmmm!

If this question is referring to the square hash browns, I've never had those. I just get the ones made with "real potatoes" that are shredded.

What are they?

Potatoes fried on a griddle or in a skillet, usually either shredded or cut into small cubes. Here's a photo, although not a very good one. http://www.dennys.com/features/images/smoked_01.gif

C'est bon, ce sont des pommes de terre coupé en fine lamelle et grillé ā la poęle.

Thanks! I think we call it rösti over here.

Merci!

Oh my goodness!!! That's not a hash brown that's a rosti! Hash browns are little and triangular and.......!!!! My world is falling apart...

Hash browns are disgusting.

See there? Those darn Americans have goofed things up again! First we start calling the lift an elevator, the boot is a trunk, and now this! It's an outrage!

lol

I don't eat hash browns - they are fat sponges.

I'm a bit slow, as usual. Now I've thought of some obvious food name differences. We call crisps "chips" or "potato chips" and your chips we call "french fries". And yet, fish & chips here comes with french fries, not crisps. I just don't know who let this happen, but I'd like to slap them!

I get the idea the early Americans were so fed up with British rule that they were determined to do things their own way. I'm really curious as to why we drive on opposite sides of the road.

Well done and crunchy cooked on both sides.

I have a feeling that's just *us* being really freaky! I think they drive on the right in the rest of Europe....

I hate hash browns.

Yep, they do drive on the right in the rest of Europe. I think the only other places in the world where they drive on the left are countries that were (or still are) under British rule. Or at least strongly influenced by the British.

Japanese drivers also drive on the left. There are a bunch of African and wee island countries where the drivers also drive on the left (which probably do have some influence from the days when Britain had an empire).

Like Hong Kong!

Oh, thank you! I didn't know that about Japan. Strange that I've never noticed it watching films made there. I usually pick up on stuff like that.

Excellent example!

Cooked on both sides & a bit on the crisp side (but most of the places I go to cook them that way without being asked).

That picture made me hungry. I like ham.

Mmmmm...ham....

Cyber me a slice PLEEEEESE!

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You're a peach SueBee! I ask for a slice & you send me an entire ham! Thanks! (Sorry about the drooling!)

Much obliged! (Don't forget to use your napkin, dear.)

Yes Ma'am!

I don't get hash browns when I eat breakfast at a restaurant. I usually get a ham and cheese omelet and you can have either pancakes or hash browns and toast with the omelet. I always get the pancakes.