Do you eat your baked potato skin?

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Or are you a heretic?

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This is what we grew up with. My mum would smear them with butter and salt and bake for about 1.5 hours. Delicious!

Toppings were baked beans, chopped up bacon, grated cheese, coleslaw, etc. If we have them we also have sweet corn and tuna mayonnaise. Occasionally, sun dried tomatoes and chopped up sausages.

My girls have a specific order they put their toppings on but the rest of us don’t.

Yes, especially as I’ll have rubbed it with garlic olive oil and generously sprinkled coarse salt.

@maddiemookins16mum

Yes, especially as I’ll have rubbed it with garlic olive oil and generously sprinkled coarse salt.

I've been eyeing that up recently but didn't know what I'd do with it....... I now know 👍

@Brendabigbaps

Best bit! Take out all the potato, stuff the skin full of butter and eat like a sandwich!

Eh?

We always bake them in the oven, we don't have a microwave.
DH always eats his skins. I sometimes do but not always. If I do i eat the middle first & then add extra butter & salt to the skins.
Sometimes I take the middle out of all of them & mix with butter, salt, grated mature cheddar & chopped sping onions & pile it all back into the skins & brown in the oven. This especially good with baked ham & sauteed cabbage.

Dd does not really like baked potato but she eats them from time to time.
I love them

They are the best bit. The kids leave theirs and I eye them with much temptation....

It is the best part.

@ThatIsNotMyUsername

Actually it’s cheese then beans. Very important to get the order correct...

I'll have to try this.... We are ''Cheese on top'', but more for the aesthetics of the thing.

Good god yes. Why would you NOT?

Yes! usually with extra butter and salt. Except not now - on health kick. Maybe becos too many baked pot skins??

Yes, I usually prefer it stiff, however either way it's nice

Thanks guys!😁 i know what I’m having for lunch tomorrow!👌

No one with piles would eat the skins, they come out like tiny razor blades.

It is the best bit

The beans melt the cheesy into a glorious cheesy melt mmmmm. Only if on top. Grated cheese on top as a garnish ok too...

Yes!

Absolutely, it’s the best part. My mum doesn’t eat it, and she also only eats the egg yolk not the white. Weird

@Darbs76 I only eat the white of eggs if they're fried! 😂

@thinkofablinkingnamewoman

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

exactly

no when i was about ten got a big gritty bit of jacket potato skin havent touched one since cant get past it

Yes of course!

It's yum

Yes. I do them on dual cook (microwave/bake) and get a nice crisp skin. My DH doesn't though.

@CounsellorTroi LTB

I have a rubbish oven (no temperature control), so cooking them properly isn't an option. I always find microwave + oven is acceptable, but the step above that is oiling, salting and then putting them in the slow cooker on baking parchment. Solely doing them in the microwave just disappoints is a travesty as you lose out on the lovely crispy, biscuity, toasty, potatey skin, butter and sea salt that is your prize after eating the filling. Plus all the fibre and the Vitamin C.

I now want jacket spuds tomorrow, thanks. I'll have to send DP out to score some big spuds in the morning. Other people can fight for Andrex, he'll be tasked with something more important.

I've already added sweet potatoes (which are lovely, cook quicker and go caramelly on the outside, perfect with salty, sharp cheese) to the online order.

My oven is broken. Can I make JPs in the slow cooker do you think?