To ask for your best recipe for baked potatoes with dip kiddies love?

[ConfusedWife1234]

Nope, I think IANBU, but I would still love your recipes.

That’s quite unusual. If you buy a jacket potato, the potatoes are in a little oven at the back of the van. Fillings are added afterwards.

Coleslaw is a great filling. You wouldn’t have to bake that with a potato.

I knew you were German, Confused ! I had an image of potato and quark or sour cream (do you mean quark when you say curd cheese? Or cottage cheese?)

Anyway. Jacket potatoes go with anything and everything! My favourite is tuna with mayo, finely chopped red or spring onions, and sweetcorn. Not that original I'm afraid!

This is my understanding of dip/topping/filling in the UK:

A dip is something that you push another solid edible item into and then pull it out with a coating - it comes from the verb "to dip" which is the action. For example tortilla chips dipped in hummus. So hummus is a dip in that context.

But if you use hummus on the top of your jacket potato it isn't called a dip in that context, it would be a topping or filling as you can't do the dipping action.

What amazes me is that you can have what seems to be a nationwide collective understanding of that as a nuance of British English usage without ever having to learn it. Brains are really amazing.

I probably like chili best on a jacket potato and reading the other ideas on here is making me hungry.

Ah Du bist Deutsch! Vielen dank für die Rezepte, muss ich Morgen ausprobieren!

Oh no, I would never bake a filling or topping with the potato. But I don't eat cheese, I suppose you could pop it back into the oven for a minute all filled and topped to melt the cheese, if you did.

But most people I know just put the cheese on top and let it melt with the heat of the other food. I heat my topping separately, if it is to be heated (e.g. baked beans, leftover chilli/curry) or just spoon it into the top of the potato, if it's not (e.g. tuna mayonnaise). Some fillings, like butter, sweetcorn, corned beef - you can let the heat of the potato warm the filling.

No,I’d not bake coleslaw. I’m not a savage
But not savoury fillings I’d bake those with the tattie

hungry a f now

You can buy chip salt here mummabearfoyrbabybears!

It's called American chip spice. I'm sure you can buy it online. It's unusual not to have it on chips in Hull and can be bought elsewhere in Yorkshire. It's so delicious I don't understand how it hasn't made it to the rest of the country! I don't bother eating chips without it.

I also found this at Morrisons groceries.morrisons.com/webshop/product/Morrisons-Chip-Seasoning/374899011

This is the American chip spice americanchipspice.com

It would never have occurred to me to bake the filling with the potato - I warm beans in a pan, chilli we would usually have been making while the potatoes baked so is in a pan anyway etc etc

You're all superstars! Thanks you so much

I scoop out middle of cooked baked potato into a bowl mix with butter grated cheese and cooked chopped onion and bacon cut into bits mix into potato and put baked into potato skins cover with more grated cheese and bake until brown and crispy.

Sounds lovely Isn't it a faff though?

I cannot remember who asked but somebody did ask if I used Quark or cottage cheese. Well, Quark but one can also mix cream cheese and yoghurt or use sour cream.

@BrutusMcDogface Oh, now I see it was you. So Quark or cream cheese/yoghurt or sour cream.