Get the recipe for Butter-Braised Mashed Potatoes here: https://bit.ly/4oiP9PQ We admit, cooking potatoes in two and a half sticks of butter sounds outrageous. But it turns out to be the path to the fluffiest, most potato-forward mashed potatoes, the platonic ideal of Thanksgiving potatoes. Inspired by the Turkish dish patates paçasi, we cook potatoes in just 1½ cups of liquid—barely enough to cover the potatoes—plus a lot of butter. The benefits are threefold: There's no water to drain away, so