How Do You Cook a Baked Potato?

[editec]

Cook it in the oven at 350.

How long depends on the potato's size and the trpe of potato.

Do not bake red potatoes as they are best boiled.

Bake the potato until you can pinch it with your fingers.

NO foil is really needed.

 

[Jos]

For crispy skin use "old" potatoes rather than "new"

 

[koshergrl]

Scrub potato in cold water.

Poke on both sides a couple of times with a fork.

Dry.

Rub with shortening.

Wrap in tin foil.

Bake at 350 until they're soft, this part you really just have to try it out to see how your oven works. I've baked potatoes for an hour..and sometimes baked them for 20 minutes. It depends on your oven and your potato. A convection oven cooks them quickly.

Microwave...scrub, puncture, and put on high for 9 minutes for a big potato, let it sit a few minutes.

The problem with a microwave is that if you do that, and it's not done, and you do it again, the chances of it being a really good potato start to decrease as the chances that you're going to overcook it (thus turning the ends to cement) increase.

If you want excellent baked spuds, do them in the oven.

 

[koshergrl]

And if you have a small dense potato, you never know how it's going to turn out in the microwave.

 

[koshergrl]

Sweet potatoes cook faster because of the sugar content.

 

[uscitizen]

The small potatoes get cooked.

Just like in politics.

 

[agraw]

Haha ~ I still like French fries.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Wrap it in wax paper crimping the seams and put in microwave for about 5 min for a med large potato.

Yep...microwave makes a fine baked potato.
It is the only thing I 'cook' in a microwave.

 

[Missourian]

Made these in the oven @ 350 for 1.5 hours...OMG.


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aUNmtSgB0c]Potato Bombs recipe by the BBQ Pit Boys - YouTube[/ame]

 

[koshergrl]

Made these in the oven @ 350 for 1.5 hours...OMG.


Potato Bombs recipe by the BBQ Pit Boys - YouTube

Those look....


AWESOME!!!

I think this is what we'll be fixing this weekend...gonna have guests, looks fun and easy!

We'll use the oven though. I am currently without barbecue..

 

[Liability]

How Do You Cook a Baked Potato?




Why would anyone cook an already baked potato?

 

[Ringel05]

How Do You Cook a Baked Potato?




Why would anyone cooked an already baked potato?

Twice baked potatoes........

 

[Liability]

How Do You Cook a Baked Potato?




Why would anyone cooked an already baked potato?

Twice baked potatoes........

LOL.

I'll give you that one.