Best potato recipes

Homemade Fries wins 77% of its duels and tops the Potatoes ranking ahead of Homemade Potatoes.

The 46 ELO points separating Homemade Fries from Homemade Potatoes confirm the appeal of deep-fried preparation, though both contenders dominate the upper tier. Yet the sharpest drop comes just below: 80 ELO points split Homemade Potatoes from Sautéed Potatoes at rank 3, marking a clear divide between the top two and the rest of the field. This gap suggests that while voters appreciate variety, the leading preparations hold a commanding advantage. Pan-Fried Potatoes and Homemade Mashed Potatoes follow closely at rank 4 and 5, separated by just 1 ELO point, suggesting that after the initial drop, preferences blur and distinctions fade. The middle of the ranking reveals a tighter race where small shifts in voter sentiment could reshuffle positions quickly. At the bottom, Raw Potatoes sits at rank 22 with only 747 ELO points, winning just 13% of its duels. The gap between it and Potato Pie at rank 21 stretches to 288 ELO points, isolating raw preparation as the least favoured option by a wide margin and underlining the community's preference for cooked forms.

4703 duels have shaped this ranking, involving 60 players who compared 22 contenders. Updated on 11 October 2026, the list reflects current preferences but remains open to change. Cast your vote and shift the standings: every duel refines the hierarchy and clarifies which potato preparation wins the crowd.

Updated on October 11, 2026

How this ranking is computed

Every duel won lifts a contender and every loss drops them, by an amount that depends on the opponent's strength: beating the leader is worth more than beating the last. It is an ELO, the same principle as in chess. Duels are not drawn at random — an adaptive entropy sort puts the least predictable match-ups first, which settles the ranking far faster than a full round robin. A worldwide ranking is only published past 30 completed plays. Known limit: a contender who has faced few opponents keeps an approximate score, and the bottom of the table moves more than the podium.

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