Baking potatoes for 4 hours on low heat - advice?

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I've just been landed with an emergency meeting after work this evening, which has scuppered my plans to stick baked spuds in the oven at 4pm ready to eat at 6.30pm.

Can anyone tell me if it would be OK to stick the spuds in at 2.30pm on a very low heat (100C?) for 4 hours?

Or is this just a recipe for wrinkly, rock-hard, inedible potatoes?

Cook them in the microwave till they're almost cooked, then finish them off in a hot oven so you get a crispier skin.

Should take no more than 15 minutes to do it this way.

I've never tried this myself so I'm just guessing when I say that I think they would dry out, but it might work if you wrapped them in foil and then blast them in a hot oven to crisp them up a bit when you get home.

Agree with BIWI - microwave first, then into hot hot hot oven to crisp up

It will be fine. Pour some olive oil over the top of them and put on low.

I often put potatoes in for the kids on 150 when going to get them from school then I whack it up when we get back.

Thanks BIWI & Sparky - unfortunately I am a luddite and don't possess a microwave...

Molesworth - I will try the foil method to prevent drying out. I already have a sinking feeling that tonight's supper is going to be horrid!

Ah - Fab - that's reassuring to know!