What is wrong with frozen baked potatos??

[Bemyclementine]

Bought some from the local shop, DS has 3 wobbly teeth and wanted soft food. Its a trek to a supermarket so popped to the nisa. Frozen spuds. How bad can they be??

What an odd texture! I used "proper" butter and ...it just seemed to disappear. The spuds are small and I added loads of butter and its like it was just absorbed! How? Where did it go? Added loads more, and still they were dry and powdery. Was I unlucky?

Personally I liked the mccain ones.

I've lived in many apartments without ovens, like you not in the UK. I've only had hobs and a microwave. I couldn't do it now though as it makes cooking so limited. I actually don't mind microwaved fresh jacket potato's. Also, not the point of this thread but when i do jackets in the oven I cook a few and reheat them during the week for my lunches.

I buy the McCain ones, nuke them for two mins then put them in the airfryer for about 15 minutes so that they are all crispy outside and soft inside. I really like them.

@PhilosophicalCheeseSandwich yes you can. Treat yourself! You’re worth it. 🙂

Hahahaha, fucking hell you're naive. There is a serious poverty crisis in the UK. Many people have no access to an oven.

Just bake a potato?!

An electric oven typically costs between 30p and 75p per hour to run in the UK, averaging roughly 45p to 60p. Gas ovens are significantly cheaper, usually costing around 15p to 25p per hour

Baking a potato also takes time - with frozen ones I can come home, open the freezer, pop one in in the microwave and in the five minutes it takes me to f feed the animals, my dinner is ready.

I just take a potato, rub it with oil & salt & air fry it for 35-50 minutes, depending on size. They’re excellent.

Admittedly now it’s only dd2 still at home & me, & we’re fairly non carby, potatoes from a 1kg bag occasionally go a bit green & get binned (this thread prompted me to check & we had two slightly green & sprouty ones, which I chucked), but that’s still going to be far cheaper than buying them frozen. Plus I’d begrudge the freezer space, tbh.

@HappyHacienda I would have done, if I had had a potato to bake.

I hate being wasteful with energy. When I want a top drawer baked potato I go to the cafe in Manchester library, a so-so one will do for a quick tea at home.

It could be that you tend to buy a different variety of potato (floury vs waxy) and this brand was the opposite.

If you have an air fryer, which is much cheaper to run than a whole oven, I tend to bake potatoes now by doing 5 mins in microwave and then 15/20 mins in air fryer to crisp up the skin and finish them off. They hit the spot perfectly and don't take too long plus I can buy whatever kind of potato I want, though I find it difficult to get them big enough these days.

I have tried a few different brands of frozen jacket potatoes and they are all vile.