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[BoyFromTheBigBadCity]

Since I've seen you can buy packet frozen jacket potatoes, I've wondered if you can do it yourself? I live on my own so it's far too much oventime for one meal, so i was wondering if I could do a load?

I don't know but the frozen ones are fabulous. Really fluffy and ready in 4 and a half minutes. I tutted and scoffed when my mother bought a packet so she bought one for me. How wrong I was. It was only probably a third dearer than fresh spuds- so not ludicrously expensive.

Why on earth?

Seven minutes in a microwave, 12 minutes in the oven to make a fresh and crispy jacket potato. It will take as long as that to defrost your ready make one.

Atticus I almost said the same until I read what the op had written!

I buy the frozen ones for work (work long unsocial shifts, get fed up of sandwiches and no access to oven). So if there is a way of making these at home, I would be interested.
For people who haven't tried them, the McCain ones taste much better than just putting a raw potato in microwave for 7 minutes.

I think I have read it?

OP wants to make her own JPs - got it.
Then freeze - why?

If the only way to make a JP was an hour and a half in the oven then fair enough, good plan, but the microwave oven combo means there's no need.

If you can get to a cash and carry you can buy in bulk and it comes out the same as buying spuds.

It's pure convenience, 4 mins in the microwave and you have a fully cooked oven baked tasting potato.

The reason I would want to freeze them is so I only have to have the oven on for a long time once - not sure I've been particularly clear.

No, I think she/he wants to make ones that taste like the McCain frozen ones, and he/she doesn't want to turn the oven on just for one! (honestly, they taste different to putting a raw potato in microwave)

Yes, this ^^

Yes but you put them in the microwave and then finish them off in the oven for a few minutes. That way they are crispy and you get the earthy flavour coming through.

Anyway I have never tasted the ready made ones so can't really comment properly. I thought you were just trying to cut down on oven time for making a JP.

in answer to your question.

ye syou can

cook them, cool them freeze them in the foil.

cook from frozen not in foil.

Arcticus "far too much oven time for one potato" even though the potatoes only need 12 minutes she needs to preheat the oven first, ie, it's a lot of energy consumption for one potato (ovens are not energy efficient) hence op is thinking it will be more efficient to make a batch a freeze them!

And although I am not the op, some of us use the frozen ones if we have no access to an oven regularly. ( e.g. At work) so being able to heat frozen ones is a bonus :)