Bobs Tater Tot Review - 1/27/25
Today was a special day at Bob’s Dining Hall—tater tots graced the menu not once, but twice! Breakfast and dinner were both blessed by these crispy golden gems. Here’s the lowdown on how both meals measured up in the world of Colby tots.
Breakfast Tots:
Waking up and checking the Colby Safe app, my heart was full of flutters as I saw tater tots on the menu at Bob's. At 8AM, I found myself trekking the journey.
First Impression:
The tots in the metal serving trays this morning were the perfect yellow-ish gold brown that signals a perfectly cooked tater tot.
Texture:
This morning's tots were perfectly done. At my time at Colby, this morning's tots fall within the top 7 morning tater tots I've had. They were crispy (but not too crispy) on the outside, with a soft and fluffy inside that reminded me a little of mashed potatoes (but in a good way). I also had the pleasure of eating completely fresh tater tots, as they were just refilled as I stepped up to the line.
Flavor:
Not too salty! Sometimes the tots can be too salty, especially if they are salted directly after frying. The salt mixes with the condensation of the taters, making them sort of soggy but also salty, sort of like salted pasta water. The less salt the better, in my personal opinion. I prefer adding my own table salt to my tots with a load of pepper as well.
Dinner Tots:
What's that?!? Two tot meals in one day?! Crazy!! I was so excited to try the cajun tots this evening.
First Impression:
Just as this morning, the tots in the metal serving tray looked perfectly cooked. They were still yellow, so not overcooked to brown or really golden brown. I love when taters look slightly undercooked since it usually means they're still soft inside but nice and crispy on the outside.
Texture:
Again, perfectly well cooked. I'm amazed by today's tater tots. So so fluffy on the inside, but not soggy on the outside. I prefer when they aren't too crispy either.
Flavor:
Cajun seasoning was great today! It wasn't overpowering like some other types of seasonings, such as maple BBQ. I liked the bit of kick the seasoning added. I had no reason to add salt or pepper.
Final Breakfast Verdict: 9.5/10
It can't get much better than these.
Final Dinner Verdict: 9/10
I appreciated the choice of seasoning and the amount of seasoning added as well. While I personally prefer plain, these were the best cajun tater tots can get!
To merely call the culinary opus at Bob’s Dining Hall “tater tots” is to commit an egregious injustice, as these gilded morsels ascend beyond the pedestrian realm of mere sustenance into the empyrean heights of gastronomic transcendence. The breakfast tots, ensconced in their auriferous, patina-like exteriors, embodied a textural dichotomy—an epiphanic amalgamation of crisp euphony and ethereal, mashed-potato-inspired fluffiness—that would have brought Gordon Ramsey himself to his knees in reverent awe. Meanwhile, the dinner’s cajun-seasoned progeny were nothing short of a sensorial symphony, their judiciously administered piquancy a triumph of restraint and culinary perspicacity.
ReplyDeleteIn summation, this dual tater tot odyssey, nay, odyssey of tuberous sublimity, deserves no less than hyperbolic exaltation, as it has incontrovertibly enshrined itself in the pantheon of starch-based ambrosia. Your excuse of a boisterous blog cannot beguile my fine taste with petty pandering, Bobs tots today were of utmost excellence.
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