How do you like them pommes (de terre)?

Please forgive me for the bad pun on the old saying "how do you like them apples?", but I just couldn't resist. But it is for a good reason - the ranking of 10 potato dishes from worst to best, by Andrea McGinniss of The Sydney Morning Herald's Good Food. This is bound to be controversial, because everyone is going to have an opinion on the GOAT potato dish.

McGinniss begins with the worst dish: boiled new potatoes, which she gives a 2/10, saying "Waxy, thin-skinned, with a stubborn refusal to fall apart in floury surrender, no matter how long you’re boiled for, instead you’re a wet, sloppy disappointment." I think she has never had freshly dug new potatoes, because that score would definitely go up if she had.

Next come potato soup and Hasselback potatoes. I tend to agree with her assessment of the latter: "The clue’s in the name. Waaay too much hassle!" Following them are potato cakes/scallops and next are jacket potatoes, which do go past the halfway mark in their rating of 6/10.

The top five dishes are all rated by McGinniss at 7.5/10 or above, starting with potato gems (aka tater tots) and hash browns, which she lumps together as one type of potato dish. Coming from Minnesota, land of tater tot hotdish, I say those are fighting words. But I will let it slide this time (that's Minnesota Nice).

Up next, McGinniss lumps two more potato dishes into one: Potato au gratin and dauphinoise potatoes. The two do share an overdose of butter and garlic, which is why they are ranked fairly high. Now we are down to the top three, which McGinniss says are hot chips (fries), followed by mashed potatoes, and the ultimate winner being roast potatoes.

Even though texturally roast potatoes are more interesting, I think I would rank mashed potatoes higher because you can add gravy and also because they are similar to my all-time favorite potato dish, Duchess potatoes. Also, I would bump tots/hash browns above au gratin. How would you rank these 10 potato dishes?