To ask how to make a jacket potato?

Don't mess, just chuck them straight into the oven on gas mark 4 for 2-2.5 hrs depending on size.

Serve with lots of real butter and filling of choice.

Microwave for 10-15 mins (pierce potato as is porous) then put in dish / on tray in oven and coat / toss with oil and salt and pepper and cook in oven reasonably high temp (180-200) until crispy, doesn't usually take too long. No foil or anything.

I do mine in the microwave (between 3-5 minutes each 'side').

Then I shove it under the grill for a few minutes to brown/crisp it off nicely.

This is how I do mine too.

Get a decent potato first, I like the Albert Bartlett ones with the yellow flesh. Pop it in the combi microwave on Jacket Potato setting. Soft inside, crispy outside, bit of butter, grated cheese and coleslaw, job done.

@llamptabletv yay. I'm so glad someone tried it and agrees with me. It is really counterintuitive but somehow works! I haven't tried it in the air fryer though, so will try that. 😁 I'm also very humbled that you took my advice out of all the others!!! 🤣

@GoogleWhacking

I have been a die hard olive oil and salty skin jacket potato cooker in the big oven for as long as it takes.

My oven has been on the fritz and I wasn't getting on with air fryer spuds.

Your advice = game changer!
(plus another poster who said to wet the spuds - sorry, I did look but couldn't find your name)

I put a cm of water in the drawer of my air fryer and for good measure ran the spud under the tap (after making a criss cross).

I did 60m on 190c air fryer ........ the most perfect jackets ever! Actually perfect!

Why would water make crispy! Revelation!

Thank you x

Love a jacket. I wish spud u like was still around. It's gone in my town anyway.

I do the 5 mins (per spud) in microwave and 15 minutes in air fryer method. Rub with olive oil and salt after the microwave. Must be Maris Piper for a really fluffy inside and crispy skin.

Alternatively the McaCain ones are excellent and I always have a box in the freezer for emergencies. Never just microwave wave them though, always give a few minutes in airfryer.

Favourite toppings - cottage cheese or beans and cheese.

When I have time I cut in half, scoop out the innards and mix with cheese, butter, chives and black pepper. Then load back into the skins and grill.

I can’t afford to have my oven on for hours to make the perfect oven cooked jacket potato.

I get the McCains and cook for 3/4 mins in the microwave, I then spray with olive oil fry light and rub with sea salt and cook in the air fryer oven on 200c for 15-20 mins.

it’s usually perfect and using fry light rather then oil means it’s healthy and doesn’t spit oil that needs cleaning in the air fryer.

I struggle to believe anyone would take a soft skin over a crispy one with a fluffy potato inside.
it’s like eating an untoasted crumpet or pop tart!

Normal cooking time in oven is about 1hr 15 or 20 the bit in the microwave chops off alot of the cooking time - I would question if it even needs 45 mins to be honest would do about 25. Just done in the microwave is v boring and not crispy etc.

If you have the oven on put a few in and fridge them for lunches etc - just need a warm through then in oven

I score the skin in a cross, 5 minutes in the microwave, turn over another 3/4 minutes. Brush with oil and sprinkle with salt, put into preheated air fryer for 5 minutes on each side to crisp it up.

I love a good jacket potatoe, a sandwhich shop near work does the most amazing ones using the jacket oven thing. Amazing skin with a fluffy inside. Have reproduced at home buying suitable massive potatoes from a farm shop, scrubbing and scoring them around the middle length ways (lovely mother in law did this rather than prick them). I microwave them for as long as needed to soften then then chuck them in the air fryer- rub skin with salt and a bit of olive oil first.

Wash, dry and prick the potato, put in ovengas mark 7 for an hour and 10 - 20 minutes or do depending on size of potato. Turn half way through. Once done cut a cross on the top and pop it open to let the steam out and make it fluffy. Serve with butter and a topping of your choice.

I had one for lunch and it was delicious! I have the Sainsbury’s loose baking potatoes, prick lots of holes in it, 8 mins in the microwave and then 20 mins in the air fryer at full whack.

Putting the oven on for 2hrs to cook a spud is madness in this day and age.

Whoever said they prefer a cold topping - totally agree. I had prawn mayo today 😋

I have a Rayburn, i cover the potatoes in oil and sea salt, parcel them up in foil and pop them in the ash pan in the morning. the house smells of potatoes and they taste wonderful by teatime.

I don't make any holes or use any oil

Microwave for 7 minutes
Air fryer for 45 minutes

Beautiful

Blimey,2 hours,I'm electric, would cost a fortune. Pricked all over, wrapped in kitchen paper. 6 minutes in the microwave,15 in the oven on 180. I've just had one.Plenty of Cornish seasalted butter.The frozen ones are so expensive, compared to a big bag of spuds.

I am about to appal you all.

I go for crispy skin, hoik out all the contents and mash up with butter and the fillings, but don't put it back in the skins. I make mini buttered skin sandwiches with a tiny bit of filling and eat them. separately. So good.

Do NOT poke holes in it...you take a sharp knife and score it all the way round .
Microwave for 8 to 10 mins depending on size.. bung in air fryer on 200 for 8 mins until skin crispy and brown.
Add Amy topping you want.
Enjoy.

Oh my days , no crispy skin 😱

I thought I was the only one. Glad I have some fellow soft-skin heathens with me now. I find crispy skins impossible to eat!

I do the same! 🤣😁

I think it really depends on the potatoes you have - some just don't go right regardless of how they're cooked! I like waxy potatoes better - starchy ones can go all watery and yuck!

Desiree make good jackets too. I always have lots of butter on, and I prefer cold toppings for the contrast, so tuna mayo and cheese, or Longley farm cottage cheese and pineapple with grated cheddar.

This thread is making me feel like an absolute savage. I chuck mine in the microwave and don't bother with the oven because I prefer the skins soft. Clearly I'm defective.