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Baked potato debate

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NeedACLeverNN · 23/04/2016 21:48

Me and dh are having a debate over a baked potato....how mundane I know.

I think a baked potato should be cooked in the oven. Takes longer I know but it's how you get that lovely crispy skin

He cooks them by whacking them in the microwave first then finishing them off under the grill. It's quicker and there not much difference in taste but that's not the point.

So wise ones....who is right?

please say me or I will never live this down. He is sat here with a smug look on his face

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GinBunny · 23/04/2016 22:36

Microwave then oven vote.
While I'm at it I batch cook them then freeze - defrost during the day then 3 minutes in the microwave to heat through, couldn't be quicker.

OhYouBadBadKitten · 23/04/2016 22:37

for large potatoes and crispy slightly burned skins, 15 minutes microwave, 45 minutes oven at 220c

calzone · 23/04/2016 22:38

No microwave here so we par boil them and then whack into a hot oven.

I love jacket potatoes.

stealthsquiggle · 23/04/2016 22:39

Oven. If I am in a hurry they take it in turns to go in the microwave for a "boost" but the very best ones are oven cooked from beginning to end.

Storminateapot · 23/04/2016 22:40

Microwave for 5 mins then roughly an hour at 200 in the oven. Can't abide soggy skin on a baked spud.

HSMMaCM · 23/04/2016 22:42

Microwave and oven here

ratspeaker · 23/04/2016 22:42

I usually put 4 tatties in microwave for 10 mins while oven heats up.
Then into oven until skin crisp

SpringHasNearlySprung · 23/04/2016 22:46

I got banned from another forum once over potatogate. I dared air my views on McCain frozen potatoes. I often oven cook potatoes at home then microwave to heat them up at work. I don't like purely microwaved baked potatoes.

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NeedACleverNN · 23/04/2016 22:47

Blimey some people take potatoes seriously Shock

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RebeccaCloud9 · 23/04/2016 22:48

I love them both, and view them as quite different things both taste and texture wise. I think of them each as a different type of potato I suppose Eg pots could be roast, mash, oven baked or microwave jacket! I really like the soft skin in microwave, and I overcook them so there's a crispy hard bit on the bottom. Yum!

Thisismyfirsttime · 23/04/2016 22:49

DH knows that I will divorce him immediately on grounds of unreasonable behaviour if he were ever to: 1. Put a potato in the microwave for any length of time, for any reason. 2. Call a baked potato a jacket potato. It has been baked. It wears a skin, not a wee jacket. Jackets are for people and even then they're coats.
I make the best baked potatoes in the world though, so I'm allowed to be so picky.

Theimpossiblegirl · 23/04/2016 22:50

Cavemum So you can use foil in the slow cooker? I had no idea. I'm always a bit wary I'm going to burn the house down so tend to stick to stews/casseroles. You learn something new every day...

Marmalade85 · 23/04/2016 22:54

What fresh hell is this? Oven only

OrlandaFuriosa · 23/04/2016 22:57

Oven if at all possible..

CaveMum · 23/04/2016 23:00

TheImpossibleGirl it was a revelation to me too!

QueenArseClangers · 23/04/2016 23:02

Saw this recipe for 'blossoming' jacket spuds yesterday:

www.jumblejoy.com/baked-potato-trick

meddie · 23/04/2016 23:03

wrapped in foil and thrown on a bonfire. cant beat it

Fridayfun · 23/04/2016 23:03

A baked potato must be baked in the oven. No spud should ever be placed in a microwave.

jollyfrenchy · 23/04/2016 23:05

If I ever do them just in the oven, they don't seem to get cooked all the way through before they start burning on the outside, so I always microwave them first and then crisp up in the oven. Surely if you put them under the grill you would have to keep turning them or they would just get burnt on one side and still soggy on all the other sides? Can't see how that can be easier than shoving them in the oven for 15 mins.

AvaCrowder · 23/04/2016 23:06

Oven is the only way. To have a baked potato, the rest are microwaved or grilled potatoes. Not the same thing.

jollyfrenchy · 23/04/2016 23:07

oh and if I do it for the kids I just micro as they won't eat the skin anyway, in fact DS won't eat potato full stop (not helpful when jacket potato is the default setting if you don't like the options at school dinner....)

Comedyusername · 23/04/2016 23:10

Known as a J Po in this house. Micro first then oven for as long as possible. Mmmm hungry now!

OneMagnumisneverenough · 23/04/2016 23:18

This is taking me back to the days when Spud-U-like was a thing and we would take a bus trip to the shop and spend all the way there deciding what filling we were going to have and sit on the bench outside eating them - tres sophisticated :o

My mum always cooked them in a tray of salt in the oven., I do the micro/oven combi method cos I can't be bothered waiting. We don't have them often though as DS1 doesn't eat potatoes at all Shock

DiscoGlitter · 23/04/2016 23:19

Jacket potatoes are always best in the oven. I've been known to do them in the microwave as well, but they just aren't the same then!
Oven for the proper, nice and crispy skin way.

LowDudgeon · 23/04/2016 23:34

My microwave has a jacket potato setting by weight, so I do them for half the required weight, & then put them in the oven for 30 mins or so.

hey turn out pretty well that way Smile