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[Food] How to get the perfect baked potato?
- Thread starter TomandJerry
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Brok
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- Dec 26, 2011
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Sorry, just had visions of multiple threads going up on here tonight asking for recommendations for microwaves after following you advise [emoji23].Shhhh
Or people baying for you blood after their house burnt down. [emoji106]
banjo
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Spud U Like.
sydney
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ed that ........tiny things i suppose....!!
sydney
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**** it ...why not put the hen in the microwave with the spud........oh no , i said hen...!!
TomandJerry
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- Oct 1, 2013
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Exactly my problem, I just want a perfect baked potato but everyone has different methods
Stato
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- Dec 21, 2011
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Back in my student days, in the absence of a microwave, I shared a tip with a housemate that you can speed up the cooking of a baked potato if you shove a knife right through it and cook it with the knife still in it. The radiated heat from the knife helps cook the inside.
He used a plastic handled knife.
He used a plastic handled knife.
Prick Potatoes
Microwave for 3-5 mins per potato (depending on size)
200 degrees for 1 hr (turning a couple of times during cooking) on a baking tray, brushed with a little butter, to stop them sticking
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Bob's you Auntie's live-in lover
*edit* or grill shelf, as above
I prefer the Russet or King Edward.
Tom Hark Preston Park
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Does anybody know of a good non-vegan alternative? Asking for a friend.
vegster
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Good tip, I do that all the time to save oven time, works well with a straight through metal knife. For the old timers amongst us Skewers work too.
Sorrel
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I use olive oil and bit of salt & pepper on them. Then, half way through the cooking, do them again with a bit more covering and turn them. You can get really nice crispy ones on the outside and lovely inside like that.
Mind you, the best baked potato I've ever had was when we had a fire up the allotment, dug the potatoes up and baked them straight away: bit o' earth on them was lovely!
Mind you, the best baked potato I've ever had was when we had a fire up the allotment, dug the potatoes up and baked them straight away: bit o' earth on them was lovely!
Sussex Nomad
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Exactly this, anything else is totally over complicating the matter, only other thing I'd add, makes holes in it with a knife, about 6-10. Put the oil and salt in a small plastic bag, like a sandwich type one, stick the potato in, give it a shake, oven at around 180 to 200 and after an hour or so just start keeping an eye on it.
Says the man with the most unecessarily complicated baked potatoes in the world!
Saltydog
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Once the pots are soft (use a skewer to test), scrape them out into a bowl, put skins back in the oven whilst mashing the potato you scraped out.
Add butter & cheese to the mashed potato in the bowl (I like to add diced onion but poss not everyone’s cup of tea) - no milk or will be too runny. Take the skins out of the oven and fill with the mashed potatoes. Return to the oven to head back through for about 20 mins.
Serve with slow cooked ribs n coleslaw.
Not too labour intensive but allowa couple of hrs for ribs. We are fortunate to have a cooker with 2 ovens so can do both at same time.
Enjoy
Add butter & cheese to the mashed potato in the bowl (I like to add diced onion but poss not everyone’s cup of tea) - no milk or will be too runny. Take the skins out of the oven and fill with the mashed potatoes. Return to the oven to head back through for about 20 mins.
Serve with slow cooked ribs n coleslaw.
Not too labour intensive but allowa couple of hrs for ribs. We are fortunate to have a cooker with 2 ovens so can do both at same time.
Enjoy
Sussex Nomad
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Norman Potting
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I wondered how soon something like that would appear
In other news I do wonder what sort of person buys the ones seen in the supermarket chiller cabinets already prepared.