16 Times Breakfast Potatoes Seriously Stepped Up Their Game

Everyone gets sick and tired of those sad, undercooked, wet-and-wiggly diner-style home fries, that never end up "well done" no matter how many times you ask the sub-normal line cook. Have no fear: You can make excellent breakfast potatoes right in your own kitchen. Here's how.

Josh Ozersky's 3-Minute Hash Browns

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Everyone loves the crispy parts of hash browns. What if we told you they could be ALL CRISPY ALL OF THE TIME?

Bangin' Breakfast Potatoes

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Cook your breakfast potatoes in rendered bacon fat. Just do what we tell you. Don't be like that.

Furikake Latkes

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You don't know breakfast potatoes, until you spike them with furikake, a seasoning made of seaweed and toasted sesame seeds. Umami multiplier x1000!

Smoky Baked Hash Browns

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The easiest way to crisp up frozen hash browns? Throw them in a cast iron skillet and just kind of forget about them for a while.

Home Fries

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Twice-cooking the potatoes leads to diner-style breakfast potato perfection.

Ham and Sausage Hash Brown Egg Bake

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Can we talk about how there really aren't enough breakfast casseroles in the world? Eggs + potatoes + ham + cheese = PROFIT.

Eggs Benedict Totchos

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Eggs Benedict are fancy. Tots are not fancy. It's the ultimate high/low breakfast mashup.

Cheesy Breakfast Potatoes with Crispy Bacon

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You can always count on copious amounts of bacon and cheese to mask that pesky potato flavor.

Baked Parmesan Hash Browns

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Packing your hash browns into a muffin tin means more crispy edges. They're ALL CRISPY EDGES.

Cheesy Bacon and Egg Hash

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We love the idea of cooking your eggs right in the same pan as the hash browns, making little nests to make them hold their shape. One pan to clean! Genius!

The Best Roast Potatoes Ever Recipe

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If you were to use just one recipe for crispy diner-style breakfast potatoes for the rest of your life, make it this one.

Crispy Oven Roasted Potatoes

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Don't want to muck around with onions and peppers? Sometimes a potato and some kosher salt are all you need to achieve breakfast potato greatness.

Cheesy Potato Gratin Stacks

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Potatoes au gratin are one of nature's greatest gifts to man. Eating miniature versions means you can finally have them for breakfast.

Idaho Sunrise (Baked Eggs and Bacon in Potato Bowls)

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Baked potatoes? Good. Baked eggs? Good. Baked eggs inside baked potatoes? Delicious coronary suicide.

Cracked Out Tater Tot Breakfast Casserole

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We don't know how these compare to crack, but they seem pretty delicious. Okay, so exactly like crack, then.

Waffle Iron Hash Browns

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Waffle iron ALL OF THE THINGS.