Baked potatoes

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Cover potato with foil as normal.

Strange idea of normal 🤪
I actually saw that anti-cyclist dick James Martin (he’s a proper chef) do some bakers. He put a bed of salt under each one, smear of butter on the top and hour+ in the oven. They’re no better in the oven than the microwave, but that’s how a pro did it.

Boil em. Mash em. Add precooked onions, red pepper and chilli. Then fry for corned beef hash. Way better than bKed.

why is no one talking about the potato type?

Vivaldi’s are amazing, they’re not called the self buttering potato for no reason.

just bake in the oven, no need for oil or seasoning. simple and pure.

as for mcains? grief. wonders never cease.

Microwave or oven, lots of butter, cheese and marmite mashed in.

He put a bed of salt under each one, smear of butter on the top and hour+ in the oven

I was taught the same method at catering college, and used it in the kitchens i worked in. We used a big flat deep sided tray with an ample layer of salt in the bottom, foil covered and in the oven.

Great if you’ve an industrial oven thats been on for 6 hours, not maybe so good in a domestic with a 20 minute warm up time.

Used to have a combi oven with a ‘baked potato’ button. Chuck it in, select how many tatties, then leave it to it for 5/10 mins. Think it alternated between microwave and oven. Was ace.

It also had a ‘pizza’  button, far superior to those wood-fired gadgets 😁😁

I used to stab them, put a metal skewer through and bake for an hour.

With the energy crisis, I’ve opted for the ‘semi cooked frozen type’, pop them in the microwave and smother with filling of your choice.

My normal method is to wrap the potato in cling film and microwave for about 4 minutes . Remove from microwave and put in oven at 200 C still wrapped in the clingfilm until cooked .  Leaving the clingfilm on speeds up the cooking process and gives a lovely crispiness to the skin . I sit the potato on a square of tinfoil otherwise the clingfilm can stick to the tray but contrary to what you might think it is otherwise perfectly happy to be in an oven at that temperature.

It’s a f@##ing potato

No need to be dicks about it

Are you new here?

My normal method is to wrap the potato in cling film and microwave for about 4 minutes . Remove from microwave and put in oven at 200 C still wrapped in the clingfilm until cooked . Leaving the clingfilm on speeds up the cooking process and gives a lovely crispiness to the skin makes them taste of plastic

Ftfy

Leaving the clingfilm on speeds up the cooking process and gives a lovely crispiness to the skin

You know that crispiness *is* the clingfilm not because of the clingfilm right?

There’s some deviants on this thread.

Microwave on full power for approx 3 mins .

Then on half power , 440 watts on mine , for another 8 mins.

My microwave has a built in grill , so I then use combi function for approx 3mins , then rotate and 2 mins on the underneath.

Damping the potatoes and a pinch of salt , plus cutting a star into the top all helps 

By cutting the power you give the potatoes time to cook through, avoiding firm areas and the grill, if done correctly crisps up the skin well enough to emulate the oven. 

Is that video SFW cougar or am I likely to find myself asking write loudly and pointedly, what’s wrong with some people?

Both.

Both

I think you overestimate my restraint

You know that crispiness *is* the clingfilm not because of the clingfilm right?

lol

bobbyspangles

why is no one talking about the potato type?

Cos you don’t get a choice in Lidl. “Baking potatoes” is the best they can come up with 😀

Has nobody mentioned Hasselback Potatoes yet?

Cook quicker and very, very, very tasty

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/hasselback-potatoes

There’s some deviants on this thread.

😳 And to think that some people have a fit of the vapours and clutch their pearls because someone puts milk in a mug first! Or even drinks tea out of a mug…

Baked potatoes are overrated…

Reported

Banning would be too good for them!

😉

Air Steam function on our Ninja is awesome for baked potatoes.

Smear in oil and plenty of salt.  Cupful of water in the bottom and then 30-35 mins on Air steam.  Perfect every time so far.

If I’m baking bread! I’ll stick 3 or 4 spuds in before putting the oven on. Sweet potatoes wrapped in foil so they don’t drip everywhere, ordinary spuds on a kebab skewer. An hour including the oven warming up seems to work, then reheat in the microwave as required.

Otherwise, wrapped in kitchen paper and nuked for 8 minutes or so.

If I’m baking bread! I’ll stick 3 or 4 spuds in before putting the oven on. Sweet potatoes wrapped in foil so they don’t drip everywhere, ordinary spuds on a kebab skewer. An hour including the oven warming up seems to work, then reheat in the microwave as required.

I don’t understand. What’s the bread got to do with it? Why haven’t you turned the oven on? Where do you get sweet potatoes that drip? Why cook them in the oven then use a microwave?

😀

I actually saw that anti-cyclist dick James Martin (he’s a proper chef) do some bakers. He put a bed of salt under each one, smear of butter on the top and hour+ in the oven. They’re no better in the oven than the microwave, but that’s how a pro did it.

I saw the pro, James Martin, make the best bacon sandwich in the world once. Pretty much exactly how anyone would do it – good bacon, nice crusty bread, decent sauce and buttery spread. Spread? SPREAD? How can you make the best anything sarnie in the world with spread and not proper butter? This was before he revealed himself to be an anti-cycling dick, so when that was revealed it was no surprise.

Bit of a digression, but I always thought the Canarian spuds (Spanish Wrinkled Potatoes (Papas Arrugadas) ) were a particular variety not available here. Wrong. It’s in the method of cooking, recipes available online. I shall certainly give those a bash.

Bit of a digression, but I always thought the Canarian spuds (Spanish Wrinkled Potatoes (Papas Arrugadas) ) were a particular variety not available here. Wrong. It’s in the method of cooking, recipes available online. I shall certainly give those a bash.

Quite possibly the worst potatoes I’ve ever had, when I tried them in Fuerteventura. They tasted like small potatoes that had been cooked in seawater until dry and wrinkly.  I wasn’t impressed by Fuerteventuran cuisine at any point, but these were the lowest point.

Has nobody mentioned Hasselback Potatoes yet?

Cook quicker and very, very, very tasty

Their cameras are good too.

There’s some deviants on this thread

Errmmm…..

Smear in oil and plenty of salt.  Cupful of water in the bottom

I REALLY hope that’s for the potato……..

Turn the oven on to full power
Stab potato with a fork
Potato in the microwave for 9 minutes
Put a lot of salt in a bowl
Roll the potato in the salt
Put the potato into the oven which should be hot by now
Remove potato when the skin is crispy

I REALLY hope that’s for the potato……..

Thanks for that. I can’t eat potatoes now because I just swallowed my tongue laughing.

Potato in the microwave for 9 minutes
Put a lot of salt in a bowl
Roll the potato in the salt
Put the potato into the oven which should be hot by now
Remove potato when the skin is crispy

Would it not be easier to remove the potato from the microwave somewhat earlier than when the skin goes crispy? Maybe before rolling in salt?

Also anyone who microwaves potatoes is wrong. Even if the end product is devine, the smell of potatoes being microwaved is vile.

Tonight’s tea will be…..

Potatoes, wrapped in foil and pushed into the corners of the wood stove to cook.

The spuds will have been lifted this afternoon from my crofter neighbour’s field which I can see from the kitchen window.

Baked beans cooked slowly in a cast iron pan upon the stove.

Accompanied by a dollop of leek and chard chutney grown and made by my other neighbour.

The butter will be vegan obvs.

The salt comes from Islay.

There may be a dram consumed – probably Speyside.

Have I reached peak STW hand wringing ****wittery status yet?

Have I reached peak STW hrand wringing ****wittery status yet?

You’ve not grown the beans though have you?

You’ve not grown the beans though have you?

Or given them names. I appreciate the journey is long and I am not yet the finished article.

Bit of a digression, but I always thought the Canarian spuds (Spanish Wrinkled Potatoes (Papas Arrugadas) ) were a particular variety not available here. Wrong. It’s in the method of cooking, recipes available online. I shall certainly give those a bash.

I worked over there for a while loved the potatoes. Locals said proper ones were cooked in sea water I think. You would have to be careful what sea water you got from a UK beech. :/

Convert, you are Neil off of The Young Ones and I claim my five lentils.

Best baked potatoes recently have been cooked in the Instant pot pressure cooker for 10 minutes.

Then air fried in the same device for 10 minutes after spraying a bit of oil on them.

The butter will be vegan obvs.

That’s not butter, that’s a chemically produced spread. You’re as bad a wrong ‘un as James Martin.

Use a good quality extra virgin olive oil and hold back on the pepper. (This works well as a dairy replacement in mash too).