Jacket potato for lunch

[Biscuitz1]

Just really annoyed right now as someone from work believes it is perfectly appectable to put a potato for 15 mins in the microwave!

There is already a queue as it is.

Innit

Oh, please... must you? 🤦‍♀️

Someone at my work does this, it is a bit rude but I try not to let it annoy me, my lunch is one hour so I just come back a while later.
She is the only person I’ve ever seen/known to eat a jacket potato straight out of the microwave so I’m wondering if it’s the same person, my one doesn’t even put butter on it.

I feel a bit sorry for them really, it's so hard to eat a cheap decent lunch and they probably feel really bad for holding people up.
Can't you get a second microwave in?

In my almost 50 years of working life I never worked in an office where you could see the kitchen, in some places it was quite a walk to get there, and every office had set lunch hours - at least for those in administration.

Why do you feel sorry for them? All they have to do is cook the potato at home and then re-heat it at work. It's absolute nonsense that they will be harmed by re-heating it. My local supermarket sells them pre-cooked with fillings from the fridge.

Bacterial growth? What on earth is she talking about? Of course a potato can be safely reheated.

Bacterial growth?!?!?! She's a joker. And an anti social one too.
15 mins hogging the microwave is not OK! I'm with you OP.

Mine takes around 15 mins. It's a cheap one, posh ones are quicker.

Bloody hell must be horrible a jacket only take 7 to 9 mins depending on size.

Can she cook it at (say) 1130 and reheat at 1230?

You literally said “from most offices you can see the kitchen”. Re-read the post I quoted from you.

Yeah, 8 mins = perfect spud 🥔

The oven for 90 minutes ???

Yeah! Smother the skin in olive oil and salt and pepper. Lovely crispy skin and fluffy inside.

If l cooked an average sized potato in the oven for 90 minutes after starting it in the microwave it would come out like a lump of coal !! And l don’t know anyone, myself included, who could afford to have the oven on for that amount of time, just for a spud.

Not far off £4 for 4 potatoes though !

I’m with you on this, I cook mine for well over an hour. Or did, we’re temporarily in a rental house with shocking insulation and our bills are huge! I have begrudgingly given in to an air fryer to cut oven use, I still don’t like it much and can’t wait to get back to a proper oven. However I will admit it does good jacket potatoes, I cut them in half too for maximum crunchy area ! A microwave potato is indeed a sad thing .

This would cause a riot at my workplace. I'm a teaching assistant and we have a 30 mins timetabled lunch break along with 30 mins timetabled playground duty. We also have the School Mafia who watch carefully to see who takes an extra 2 minutes for lunch, then bitch about them.

Someone hogging the microwave for 15 mins would be lynched for sure.

But it’s a jacket potato, not an average sized potato. They prob are quite large to be fair, but isn’t that the point of a jacket potato?

Tbf, it’s prob more like 90 mins without the microwave.

I’m not rich by any standards but yes, luckily I don’t ever actually think about the cost of using the oven. We have a range and often have both ovens on.

also I’m not cooking just one, it would be 4 or 5 as it would be for dinner generally.

92p per potato strikes me as a bargain when you consider the number of potatoes that I used to throw away because they had gone bad/sprouted before I had a chance to eat them. I always keep a box in my freezer.

I actually think taking a jacket potato to eat for lunch at work is beyond weird - what is wrong with a sandwich, a wrap, soup, or a boxed salad? But whatever.

And they’ll all take longer

Yes most offices I have worked from, the kitchen is always a little room at the end of the floor plate/office, and each floor plate/office has it's own kitchen.

This is genius

It certainly does take more than 5, even a frozen pre-cooked potato takes 5 minutes, 4 if thawed. Very unreasonable for them to use the microwave for so long though, would be simple enough for them to get frozen potatoes or cook them beforehand.