AIBU about a Jacket Potato?

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Obviously lighthearted! But my DH thinks that making a microwave ‘jacket’ potato is a good enough substitution for a proper oven jacket potato.

I think that it should have a delicious crunchy shell to fill with creamy, salty butter... mmmmm!

So, AIBU to say that microwave Jacket potatoes are not a good substitute?

Much better cooked in the oven

Oven only. Never, ever microwave. Totally with you OP.

In the oven, with oil and salt. The only way.

@tearinmybeer lol

Oven is the only way.

Microwave is for cheating bastards. Oven is the only true way. All hail the oven

Totally agree. Microwave potatoes are rank. A good couple of hours in the oven makes a delicious jacket potato!

Mine never come out well in the microwave - they seem to have a hard crusty bit where they've been in contact with the plate/dish/whatever they're on. That's with or without the special selection for 'potato'.
Oven all the way for me.

My husband does this too. So wrong. Jacket potato must be crispy on the outside and soft on the inside preferably topped with beans and lots of melted cheese.

YANBU

microwave is a poor substitute, even if crisped a bit in the oven. Never gets that thick skin and fluffy inside.

How hard is it to put a potato in an oven for an hour?! Soooo much nicer

In the oven is best sprinkled with sea salt and olive oil. Not the same in the microwave!

microwave is a poor substitute, even if crisped a bit in the oven. Never gets that thick skin and fluffy inside.

Mine does. Crispy skin and fluffy inside every time. There's no way I'm putting the oven on for an hour or two for a bloody potato. I could cook far more delicious and filling things in that time.

I've recently started doing mine in the air fryer, perfect evety time.

Aside from that, micro to start it off then oven to crisp up

Will microwave and then finish in the oven for speed but it is a poor potato compared to one done fully in the oven.

Your husband is wrong.

For crispiness score cross in potato and rub all over with oil. Does not need to be olive. Put in oven and bake.

Well I don’t have a microwave but if I did I still wouldn’t cook a jacket potato in it.

LTB.

The humble jacket potato is having a revival in my house right now.

Shove potatoes in the oven on the timer, out you go for the day, amazing dinner awaits you on your return.

It literally cannot get any better.
Living my dream life.

Thank you to all you oven lovers, DH is now sulking because he is clearly wrong

It does totally come down to crispy skin and fluff factor.

@RiftGibbon Yes!!!! That hard bit is so horrible!

Oven otherwise grim

Cover the skins with butter and then bake high in the oven. Used to be able to get a gadget with prongs that went into the potatoes which helped to bake them faster.

yes yes to oil. and salt.

@GroggyLegs That is a genius idea!! I’m am stealing that.

Deffo Oven.

Nicer in the oven but.... I’m far too much of a greedy cow to wait for them to cook in the oven, when I can shove them down my gob in 10 minutes!!!

No YANBU! Oven only imho.