Do you eat your baked potato skin?

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Or are you a heretic?

Yes! Seriously judge and question whether I can be friends with anyone who doesn’t!

Yes always unless microwaved

Best bit!

Save it till last, extra butter, yum!

Yes.

Then I eat the kids’ leftover potato skins.

I’m never going to encourage them to eat them.

I'm working late tonight DH has already put the potatoes in the oven, by the time I get home around nine they'll be crispy on the outside and fluffy in the middle, the skin is the best bit; olive oil, salt and pepper, sometimes chilli flakes, delicious. Even DS (2) eats the skin (oil only on his).
DH was a heretic but it was a condition of our marriage that he eats potato skins. He says he has come to love them and blames his own foolishness for throwing them away for so long.

Yes they're the best bit. When I do mashed potato I keep the skins and cook them hah.

Yes! Are there people who don't? It's the best bit.

Yes.

Oh definitely, and baked with olive oil rubbed in and sea salt. No microwave just crispy oven goodness!

Yes I do now but I didn’t until I met DH as my parents didn’t and I didn’t know it was a thing you could do 😂 DH told me to get on with it and eat it and DS has always eaten his too.

Oh yes. Buttery, crispy and delicious.

I've just had a huge one. Nearly 400g of utter deliciousness and I'm on a diet and losing weight. Feel like I've cracked the code

@thinkofablinkingnamewoman

Love the skin but only if oven cooked. Hate hate hate microwaved jacket spuds

A microwaved jacket spud isn’t a jacket spud

Oh there is a take out place near me that bake the potatoes in their skins, cuts them in to wedges and puts them in the air fryer. It's absolute bliss.

No no no, you have to microwave for around 6-10 mins and then put in the oven for 30ish mins. You then get properly soft potato inside, and a really decent skin!
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Put it in the oven sooner, it's even better

Yes of course. Few minutes in microwave, then olive oil and salt rubbed in skin, 45 mins or so in oven..heaven.. love a spud

Massaged with olive oil and sprinkled with salt and out absolutely nowhere near a microwave or meek-ro-wavey as it is now forever know.

So long as it has been in the oven (started in the microwave is ok).
Extra butter in the skin, and scoff it.

My kids ask me to get the mash out, as I used to tell them they were mash bombs because they 'didn't like potato'. I'm still dutifully scraping it out and snaffling the skins.

@AlwaysLatte

No no no, you have to microwave for around 6-10 mins and then put in the oven for 30ish mins. You then get properly soft potato inside, and a really decent skin! 🤔 Put it in the oven sooner, it's even better

Hmmmmm I'll try a pure ovenated potato and compare.

Mine are perfection though, and that just can't be bettered

Oh yes, baked slowly for hours, nice and crispy and inside of potato yellow!

@alpinia Thanks, I’ll have to try that tomorrow!

@Bookworming

Oh yes, baked slowly for hours, nice and crispy and inside of potato yellow!

Hours? What temp?

I had two skins tonight as my dd doesn’t eat hers. I put my potato in it so it had a double skin, it was very pleasing!