[Food] How to get the perfect baked potato?

[Westdene Seagull]

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Probably need a new microwave after.

Shhhh

 

[Brok]

Prick with a fork

 

[dadams2k11]

Shhhh

Sorry, just had visions of multiple threads going up on here tonight asking for recommendations for microwaves after following you advise [emoji23].

Or people baying for you blood after their house burnt down. [emoji106]

 

[banjo]

Spud U Like.

 

[sydney]

It’s more complicated than that. You need to turn the oven on at some point, then the fun starts

i know i shouldn't have but i'm afraid i ed that ........tiny things i suppose....!!

 

[Notters]

You just need to prick a potato and stick it in the oven for about an hour and a half. Anyone doing anything else (foil, salt, oil, etc. ) is wasting time and money.

 

[sydney]

Warm egg mayo with eggs laid that day is my favourite. Sprinkle of cracked black pepper and food fit for the gods.

**** it ...why not put the hen in the microwave with the spud........oh no , i said hen...!!

 

[TomandJerry]

You just need to prick a potato and stick it in the oven for about an hour and a half. Anyone doing anything else (foil, salt, oil, etc. ) is wasting time and money.

Exactly my problem, I just want a perfect baked potato but everyone has different methods

 

[Stato]

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.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

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

and

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]

Does anybody know of a good non-vegan alternative? Asking for a friend.

 

[vegster]

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.

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]

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!

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Cover them in olive oil and salt then stick them in the oven. 2hrs should be long enough.

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.

 

[Petunia]

All of a sudden I am ruddy starving!

 

[Notters]

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]

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

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Says the man with the most unecessarily complicated baked potatoes in the world!

Really? Stab them, coat them in oil and salt and bake them? Yeah totally complicated

 

[Vankleek Hill Seagull]

Beans and cheese? I was thinking tuna and mayo with a sprinkle of sweet corn!

You were doing fine up until the mention of sweetcorn. Vile stuff.

 

[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.