6 and a half hours in the oven?! Is anything left?
A microwaved potato is not a baked potato.
Rediscovered potatoes done in the embers of a fire whilst camping this summer. Can’t be beaten though not the most practical at home.
I tend to do a couple of hours in the oven for staple baked potatoes.
Actually we’ve got some massive spuds in the cupboard this week, this has reminded me to batch cook dinner tomorrow to reheat at work. Valid user of microwave 🙂
@jaminb for the ‘effort’ version. No idea for air fryer version of this but interested as putting the oven on, I can watch pound coins leaving my bank account
Microwave for 5 minutes or so, dash of oil, salt and pepper and then 20-30 in the oven for speed and thrift while acceptable eating
Microwave only – no. What you have cooked there is a steamed potato in its skin. If you must do this may I suggest stew with a puff pastry lid and some of those frozen mixed vegetables for the full disappointment experience. 😝
5 minutes in the microwave, then switch on oven and put in oven whilst it is heating up, when oven up to heat 25 minute alongside something else theat is cooking in oven.
Cut a cross in the top. Rub with oil and salt. Microwave for 10 minutes and finish in the oven on 200C for 10 minutes.
After being cooked, cut in half, cover with grated cheddar and lots of Worcestershire sauce. Grill until the cheeese is well done. 👌🤤
My mum, purchaser of many an interesting Christmas present, one year, gave me a baked potato bag… yep, you put your spud in it, microwave it. Takes 4 – 5 mins. I always put it in a really hot oven for 15-25 mins afterwards (no, not in the bag) to crisp up the skin. Plus add about a lb of salted butter. Lovely. 😀
1.5 to 3 hrs in the oven about 180ish depending on size and impatience levels. The longer the better for nice thick crunchy skin. Have tried oiling and salting but I think the end result is more down to the variety and quality (age?) of the potato than fiddling with that. Microwave potatoes can get in the sea.
I just put them in the oven until they are done. You can tell by giving them a squeeze. Usually 2-2.5hrs, plenty of time to go for a pint while your waiting
Baked potatoes are overrated… unless you wrap it in foil and chuck it on a fire… baking them for hours on end in an oven just seems really inefficient for just one or two tatties. Baking 6 at a time, maybe I could get on board with that.
But there’s no way I could eat six big tatters in one sitting, it’s not just the carbs, they would need about half a kilo of cheese and a whole pack of butter.
To help with cooking in the oven, put a teaspoon into the potato. Push the handle into it with the spoony part sticking out. Cover potato with foil as normal. The spoon gets hot and helps cook the middle of a large spud.