How the f*** do you make a baked potato?

[Beach Hut]

Gutted. It was meant to be a nice, fluffy jacket potato with prawn cocktail filling and crispy salad with French dressing.

I've now chopped up the potato in chip-like shapes, eaten the prawn cocktail out of the tub and picked at most of the salad.

I need a BIRD.

And there was me waiting for some kind of breast milk joke

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Build a bonfire
Build a bonfire
Put Bellotti On The Top
Put Spud In Tinfoil In The Middle
Then Wait Around A Lot

 

[Lush]

There aint no short cuts IMHO. 2hrs in an oven on 180 should do it.

Then you open the oven, the smell wafting round your kitchen and into your nostrils, stick your knife into it's gorgeous crispy crust (whereupon a satisfying waft of steam is delivered), cram a enormous slice of butter in and watch it melt all over, maybe grate some cheese on the top, plunge your fork in and enjoy the sensation as it melts in your mouth.......

 

[Easy 10]

Lush, thats just CRUEL

 

[timseagull]

Build a bonfire
Build a bonfire
Put Bellotti On The Top
Put Spud In Tinfoil In The Middle
Then Wait Around A Lot

Shall we all sing that on the march tomorrow?

 

[The Large One]

Roll it in salt and olive oil, wrap it in tin foil, and bake it for 75mins on 180 deg.

Suggest next time:

You don't cook a potato the size of Bournemouth
You buy some salt and/or olive oil
You buy some tin foil
Make sure you have a decent oven.

Even one out of those four might have helped.

 

[Spicy2]

Gutted. It was meant to be a nice, fluffy jacket potato with prawn cocktail filling and crispy salad with French dressing.

I've now chopped up the potato in chip-like shapes, eaten the prawn cocktail out of the tub and picked at most of the salad.

I need a BIRD.

A Microwave would be cheaper!

 

[Minghawk]

if you don't have a skewer, then stick an old (metal) fork in the spud, and keep it there whilst it cooks.

warning tho' - removing the fork you will always, no matter how careful you are, burn yourself on the fork.

more often than not, you'll rest your forearm against the bastard
as it leans at an angle in the sink.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Delia Book One.

 

[Kev the Ape]

if i cooked anythink i would burn the house down, i nearly did when i was in year 8 doing cooking technology i got fined 100 quid for burning the cooker

 

[Braders]

if i cooked anythink i would burn the house down, i nearly did when i was in year 8 doing cooking technology i got fined 100 quid for burning the cooker

brilliant

worst i did was set off all the fire alarms

 

[Bluejuice]

Roll it in salt and olive oil, wrap it in tin foil, and bake it for 75mins on 180 deg.

Agreed, although I would recommend garlic salt if you have it. Mmmmmm

 

[fataddick]

Safeway writ "How the f*** do you make a baked potato?"

And we wonder why they got taken over by Morrisons...

 

[Lord Bracknell]

We have a coal fired Rayburn.

I have a feeling I might have put a couple of backing spuds in it last April. When it's time to get the thing going again (mid-October?) I'll check to see whether they're ready.

As someone said, long, slow cooking is the best way to prepare baked potatoes.

 

[Shizuoka Dolphin]

How the f*** do you make a baked potato?

Sometimes you can tell a thread starter just by reading the title - classic Safeway.

 

[Lush]

Do not wrap potatoes in foil! You are steaming them not baking them.

Honestly!

 

[CHAPPERS]

Oven at gas mark 5 for 1 3/4hours after covering potato in oil and a bit of s&p.

 

[Barnet Seagull]

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Originally posted by Barnet Seagull
10 -15 mins in the microwave on full depending on size (pierce it first)

30 mins in the oven at 200 degrees C
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Are you mad ??

Try 5 Mins on full power in a microwave and turn it over and repeat. Make sure you punture it liberally with a fork.

In an oven, Gas 8 (220 F electric) for 40 minutes.

I have a low power microwave, usually cook a couple and they tend to be big fat marfonas.

 

[Deano's Right Foot]

Is it done yet Safeway?