The Best Homemade Latkes | SAM THE COOKING GUY

[@TheDeb1216]

My sister and her husband are lefties and I am right handed. Every holiday season I am reminded that we should trade our potato peelers since they do get dull...but we never do!

[@brittanyleeful]

I just made your recipe with exact techniques as suggested. Iv'e made other latke recipes in the past. These came out the BEST. Thank you for sharing. I finally found a winner!

[@lindalockhart1266]

So wonderful to see Lynn!!

[@pennyclegg7728]

I’m making them right now..can’t wait..yum, yum. Love the new version 😉🥳

[@pennyclegg7728]

Hi Sam your easy way in the food processor is wayyyy easier and absolutely delicious!! Thank you for posting this. 🥰

[@PjMeh]

Whoa! The backyard before the outdoor kitchen! 😲 I hope y'all will bring these back during the holiday season. 🤤

[@megantillman2824]

I have never done this before, but capers would be good too. 😋

[@wndrwmn44]

Love that you drain it in a towel with a lobster on it.

[@charlesokongo4928]

This is just super awesome. Totally love the creativity of the setup 👍👍👍

[@mjarail]

My German-American grandmother always used leftover mashed potatoes. The addition of lox, dill and sour cream is, just wow!

[@sayididit2930]

Mashed potato "latkes" are called kremzlach/chremslach (which may be Czechoslovakian)

[@insaluki9769]

Sour cream along with pork n beans is a surprising combination on potato pancakes

[@daz4312]

no pork if you're keeping kosher!

[@MRTangles]

Never heard of them, now i want them! Thank guys

[@SuzanneBaruch]

Hanukkah Sameach, Sam & Family! I won't yell at you for your recipe or technique -- this looks great to me!

[@wendycunningham1183]

Always been potato pancakes to me and I am from Canada!!

[@martinm3474]

Just a little bit different from our German potato pancakes. Mostly in drying the potatoes, then the amount of oil they're cooked in.

[@rodmckenzie9089]

I'm a new subscriber (2020) and I enjoy watching your old episodes. That lox you used looked a lot like the Scandinavian gravlax. And there's nothing creepy about loving scallions 😂.

[@Blucheese18]

Love your channel, and the men who talks in the back is great! Kisses from Argentina

[@davidlawson4281]

I make these with mashed potatoes because I fear burning the outside, uncooked inside. Gravy as topping.

[@AGlimpseInside]

I made something similar last week, however I put my potato mixture in saran wrap and then used a burger press! Either way great job Sam

[@michaeljdauben]

My family is German rather than Jewish, but I've been eating potato pancakes all my life. My mom's recipe is very similar to yours.

[@daz4312]

One of my local grocery stores has in their bulk food section these nifty dehydrated shredded potatoes, they are like big flat matchsticks, not fine like frozen hash browns. You let them sit in hot water for 10-15 min and then fry them up. They make corned beef great hash or Spanish tortillas (that's a potato omelet in Spain, not a flat piece of bread like out here in the Southwest!) Going to experiment with them and see if it saves me the shredding step in the latkes! They will be coarser than what you are aiming for here.

[@watermain48]

Took me straight back to my first love's house where her mom, Sylvia Glazer, made the most incredible potato latkes. That was 50 years ago. Or maybe it was just being a young guy in love. Who knows? Anyway, thanks Sam.

[@dougbourdo2589]

Kelly needs to be on a lot more segments. She is a Doll.

[@donshrimper4359]

aint never heard of it but ima gonna watch and learn

[@paulinaadkins3593]

Looks good, I'm going to make some, but I think I'll add some scallions. You're funny. DON'T LIKE THE FRY SMELL. 🤣😂🤣😂

[@larrystuder8543]

16:00 my Mom, who was not Jewish, often made potato pancakes from day old mashed potatoes. Yum...

[@chrisgabel8498]

When I shred potatoes, I use a salad spinner to remove the moisture

[@drinsey143]

had no idea what a latkas was until now 🙈 I'm Haitian, what do I know 😆

[@johnmichaels6302]

I never heard of it thus never had one but DAMN I'm gonna try to re create them

[@lbsmith83]

Amazing!!!!!

[@tomd.benjamin762]

Looks fantastic!

[@jefferyneu3915]

I love the browned, crunchy edges. My wife and I eat at a Jewish deli every Monday. Theirs are never nicely browned unless I order mine crispy. 😨. Your look perfect!👍

[@laurac5451]

Lox is salmon for those who do not know.

[@brucehamilton6587]

Never heard of a potato latkes , Brisbane Australia 🇦🇺🙏🏻

[@stanirelandbig]

potato peelers are what we call Irish police

[@stanirelandbig]

Latka was in taxi , loved it

[@cheridehart7771]

I have heard of them, however I have never eaten them.

[@askrhonnie6356]

Nope. As a professionally trained Chef, you run the risk of gummy potatoes when you run them thru a processor. Keep the shreds and you’ll have texture. P.S. you lost me when you spoke against the smell of fried food in the house. No real chef would ever say that.

[@sandy-mr5gj]

flour sack towels are cheap and gr8 for squeezing out potato shreds to dry them and are fr8 for covering rising dough (dough will not stick). fyi

[@KOBA971]

my Russian grandma made it with shredded potatoes

[@natepowers5854]

I thought he was lying about being jewish in his newer videos but im glad to see he wasn't lyin lmao

[@larrystuder8543]

I got into a poite argument with a lady once about whether they were onion pancakes or potato pancakes.

[@laurac5451]

I can't believe you don't have more followers I shared this to Facebook don't know if that will help.

[@TeachEnkrat]

Not being so newly from Eastern Europe - but familiar with Hanukkah since discovering my 6% Ashkenazi genome - I wonder is there any other kind of latkes than potato latkes?

[@sayididit2930]

Yes there are. Honestly, any vegetable can be used to make lakes. The reason why potatoe is the traditional version is because in Europe years ago, they couldn't afford other vegetables to use. Potatoes were available and cheap. So that became the go to. Honestly, the idea of eating latkes is also because they are low budget. The real reason is to eat food fried in oil. So they fried what they could afford. Potatoes. Dough (hence doughnuts are also a Chanukah favorite)...

[@sandy-mr5gj]

you need a frydaddy that contains the smell of frying.

[@drinsey143]

darn it! that potatoe juice could've given me a nice facial, and would probably get rid of those bags under my eyes😧😧😧

[@dakotarogers7099]

Haha, I love rewatching the old stuff. Gives me something to watch while waiting for new videos. :P " That's what I'm talking about BITCH... Oh.. "

[@donnafitzgerald853]

never heard of them

[@stanirelandbig]

Boxty

[@keturahdelisca4509]

Sam could u please tell me where to get those little cast iron pots you use or your salt and pepper

[@davidkeeling7468]

It’s March 2020 and I’ve never heard of them . But in my defence I am British

[@andrewnielson2227]

HAPPY LATE HANNUKAH SAM & MAX HEY YAO MING IS BACK HAVE GOOD DAY THANK U U ALL R D BEST IT IS MORE IMPORTANT WHAT IS IN U HEART THEN WHAT IS IN U STOMACH AMEN

[@davidkeeling7468]

There’s another one a rutabaga in the uk we call it a swede

[@kellypearsall4540]

Can you actually bake them instead or will they not be as good?

[@johnjackson-pu3xo]

Great video, but if max says WOW one more time jeez

[@anonymousfox263]

Im Jewish and I think the pre-made frozen ones are better than the homemade =) but I still love watching your channel ham and all!

[@Dungar108]

Green onion or not? Sqeeuze out the moisture from onions too?

[@nicknicholas3186]

Real latkes have matzah meal, not flour

[@dougg.5498]

1st time hearing of them

[@cemeteryman1000]

I like to leave the peels on

[@NBK1122]

Another Sam Recast, from 2012.

[@ohmbuoy1]

First I heard of 'em I thought it was a guys name. Later I knew it was something to eat, but never checked it out.

[@dosomething6975]

I just heard of a latke today and it's 2021

[@leedoss6905]

Back in the day before EVO.

[@jimhart1632]

me

[@billnash3518]

Never heard of a lotka

[@NewVenari]

I didn't know what a latka was until I watched Adam Sandler's 8 Crazy Nights

[@hamdijabajric556]

I've never heard of a latka

[@wrokgoddess]

I'm 46.. It's January 2019.. and I've never heard of potato Latkes.. 🤔

[@AP-jy2ps]

Umm.. You mean January 2020?

[@TomCoccia]

what, no matzo meal

[@drsparklagasm]

Wheres the EVO!?!?!?!

[@sandraskellen3172]

if its day 5 why are there six candles?

[@EddieTheGreat.]

One is the candle that you use to light the rest of the candles. It's called the shamash. It doesn't count as one of the candles it's a lighting candle

[@MrBigMSG]

5000 year old laws in religion about the cleanliness of food are antiquated. Modern practices make our foods safe. I get the traditional ways, but I also think everyday life should not count. Keep the tradition alive on holidays if you want, but don't be ashamed to live and eat.

[@mr.e0311]

How are there so little views on this video?

[@noorasstudio]

Sam you waste a lot of food why you have to cut the head and bottom of the potato?!!!!!!

[@tkozlof88]

I don’t play on Facebook ...

[@AlergicToSnow]

What do shredded potatoes have to do with religion? I think you mean culture.

[@rickolson-51]

Could you explain the 9 candle Menorah minus 3 candles...

[@sayididit2930]

Chanukah (or Hanukkah as it's called in the non Jewish world) is a 8 day holiday. It celebrates (among other things) the miracle that in the times of the Holy Temple, they needed spacial olive oil to light the menorah but only found one jug which should last only one night. The process of obtaining new oil would take 8 days. They lit the oil that night and miraculously the oil did not burn up but lasted for 8 nights until new oil was made. So in commemoration, on the first night (the Jewish day starts at night) we light one candle and then each night after we add a candle (2nd night 2 and so on). The middle candle (doesn't need to be the middle, on a different level to differentiate from the other candles) is called the Shamesh (attendant, or caretaker in Hebrew) is the candle used to light the others. Also, because the menorah is considered holy, one may not derive any benefit from it or its light. So if someone would read by the light of the menorah, the Shamesh is giving enough light that it's not considered benefiting from the other candles. So to answer your question, this was filmed for the 5th night of Chanukah (even though it was actually filmed on the 3rd night but that's beside the point 😂) hence 5 candles plus the middle Shamesh. The missing three will be lit on the next three nights respectively.

[@leemacklin7197]

Hi, great. By your own words "A way to a mans stomach is a way to a Mans heart". So gd does care about whats in your stomach. Including when a Jew eats Pork. Happy holidays

[@Rose_and_her_Covey_of_quail_]

You will never see this comment, Sam and co. I know you are a Jew. And you said that YAHWEH cares what is in the heart and not outwardly.....but His Law was never done away with. So, I am a young mom of 4 children, trying to eat kosher and it is so hard explaining all this world viewed acceptance..

[@dr.who2]

Iam one

[@richardwind2859]

Anti somatic

[@lrphpoxcwsbkjpcirojj7633]

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[@staffordduecker665]

Wrong...

[@roberthart9886]

so, fried mashed potatos and onions

[@SzerenM]

You cook something and the very first pieces goes to the people with you there, not for yourself. Let them try it. Let them say what they think of it. What you did is not polite.

[@sayididit2930]

Oh, that is so not Sam... It's rare for him to give the others (at least on camera. I'm sure once the cameras are off, they stuff their faces!) But in reality, most cooking shows are like that. The cook/chef does his/her thing and then tastes it. You generally don't see the camera people tasting. The only reason why you notice it here is cause the cameramen are not silent but actually talk during the show...