Is it possible to freeze baked potatoes and if not what am I doing wrong with my microwave?

[prioneyes]

My microwave produces hot potatoes with hard bits. I know micro spuds are rarely good but these are inedible.

So, my plan is to bake batches of spuds in the oven then freeze individually, and reheat them in the microwave.

Will this work?

If not, how do I make my tatties play the microwave game?

Not a fan of frozen, reheated potato myself. But you microwave sounds like it's got problems. Does it have a turntable? Or do you manually rotate the potatoes during the cooking time? Uneven cooking usually means the microwaves aren't hitting all of the food. And what variety of potato are you using? Some bake better than others.

Are they no good frozen then? Dagnamit.

Microwave cost about £20 six years back. Has a functional turntable but makes a rubbish job of heating food right through so a tattie gets frazzled on the outside by the time the inside is lukewarm.

Maybe Santa will bring me a new microwave

Not to reheat in the microwave (I don't like 'em) but I personally always bake an extra potato when i am doing some for us and freeze it.
The key is to halve it, scoop out the middle, mash it with some salt and pepper and butter, plus cheese if you like, then replace the potato into shell. Then I wrap in foil and freeze, and just whack them in the oven from frozen for about half an hour. I suppose you could reheat in the micro if necessary.

Make sure you prick the potato and turn a couple of times whilst cooking. The only way I get decent potatoes in my microwave is to use a plastic jacket dish from bettaware - it lifts the potato off the floor so it heats all round, and cooks better. Cost about a pound!

Sounds like it is your microwave tbh.

I always bake extra potatoes and cut into wedges and freeze for really fast wedge chips

Thanks everyone :)