Jacket potatoes - help settle an argument

[Hmmingbird]

Following on from a conversation with a friend, I just want to know who is being unreasonable.

I eat the whole jacket potato, skin and all. The skin is the best bit (provided not burnt) IMO.

My friend thinks this is totally wrong, and says the skin is nasty.

Who is right in this instance? Surely everyone eats the skin!

Toffee - I had cheese and prawns on mine. Sounds weird but tastes amazing.

You are right.. but having worked in catering I wouldn’t eat the skin anywhere other than home as I wouldn’t be sure they were washed! (Obviously I washed them when I was on shift but plenty of others didn’t!)

Why would I wash something that’s going in the oven, which is really hot?

Your friend is a weirdo. Suggest you cut all contact asap.

I don’t like the skin, my husband does, so he eats his then when I’m done he eats mine,,,😂

You're right - skin is yummy

Your friend is a loon. They're not technically "jacket" potatoes if you don't eat the skin, are they?

*You are right.. but having worked in catering I wouldn’t eat the skin anywhere other than home as I wouldn’t be sure they were washed! (Obviously I washed them when I was on shift but plenty of others didn’t!)

Why would I wash something that’s going in the oven, which is really hot?*

Because potatoes come from the ground with a layer of dirt on them! We buy proper Fen potatoes which come with mud attached (though I wouldn't bother to wash prewashed supermarket potatoes)

You wash them (or use ready washed potatoes) because otherwise there is clumps of dirt on the spuds which doesn't taste nice or have a good texture, because it's not food.

Neither of you are right or wrong. If you like the skin, eat it, if you don't. don't. I eat pizza crusts. Plenty of people leave those.

As long as you scrubbed it before you baked it, I don't see the problem...

Your friend is bonkers.

Skin is easily the best bit, especially if you put a little oil, salt and pepper on before baking. That’s our dinner tonight

Lovely crisp potatoes skins..... yum..... I think I'll pop the oven on for a nice jacket spud now.....

She's clearly nuts. Crispy, salty, baked potato skin is delicious!

You are both right.

She's a weirdo. Obviously you bake them with the skin on!

Then why does she think people actually pay for the skins in restaurants?! YANBU.

She's clearly not cooking the skin properly. Forkholes, oiled, salted with sea salt, crisped in oven. Becomes the tastiest bit after this treatment.

Depends on

a) if the potato is fluffy
B) the skin is crispy.

A good jacket spud (with lots of butter) can be a wonderful thing. A bad one (wrong type of potato and limp skin) is just awful.

Sadly, there are more bad ones than good ones in my experience.

The skin is SUPPOSED to be eaten.

Some jacket potatoes being rubbish doesn't change that.

You are definitely right to eat the skin. Love a baked potato! Crispy skin... fluffy potato... bit of butter... cheese... Mmmmm I want one now! :-)

We eat a lot of jackets in this house, skins are the best bit and like a PP has said, fork them, bit of oil, bit of salt and into the oven they go. So easy.

I cannot see the skins go to waste, if someone leaves theirs, I'm straight in there.

I keep my skin, then cook it in the microwave until it’s snappable! Add salt and pepper for the best snack ever!!

I haven't had a jacket potato for years, but really fancy one now!

You're absolutely right, the skin is absolutely yummy when it's done just right. I do them in the microwave and then the oven for half an hour. It's the whole point of jacket potatoes, and plus it's full of goodness. I'm trying to convince DD2 that it's good and she should eat it. She is getting the idea now.

Skin is great. Microwaves turn food absolutely vile.

Oh no the skin is magic because it times your potato by 2. First you put your topping on and eat out the whole jacket potato leaving the skin in tack. Then you stuff the skin with more topping and eat that too. The later bit being more enjoyable than the first.

Or is that just me?