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Fatest time to bake a potato
Posted on 6/1/12 at 10:40 pm
Posted on 6/1/12 at 10:40 pm
What is the highest temp/fastest time I can bake a potato (in a regular oven)? Please no microwave comments - I hate baked potatos from the microwave.
TIA
TIA
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Posted on 6/1/12 at 10:42 pm to lovelsu
just throw it in the microwave.
Posted on 6/1/12 at 10:43 pm to lovelsu
Lookin at an hour as far as I know. A small potato might get out in 45...
Posted on 6/1/12 at 10:46 pm to DanglingFury
400 for 45 minutes is probably the fastest i would go with a medium potato.
Posted on 6/1/12 at 10:53 pm to lovelsu
Microwave it for 5 minutes first and finish off in the oven. Rub the skin with olive oil while it's warm from the microwave.
Posted on 6/2/12 at 1:09 am to lovelsu
wrap in foil, boil for a few minutes and finish off in oven still wrapped in foil...done when soft (twss).
Posted on 6/2/12 at 1:17 am to lovelsu
This might not be the answer you're looking for, but most restaurants that feature a "baked" potato are actually serving boiled potatoes. Wrap them in foil and into the water they go until done. Split them open with the foil still around it, add your favorite toppings and voilà, you've a "baked" potato.
Posted on 6/2/12 at 1:43 am to Layabout
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Microwave it for 5 minutes first and finish off in the oven. Rub the skin with olive oil while it's warm from the microwave.
this is what I do and you can't tell the difference from cooking it completely in the oven.
Posted on 6/2/12 at 4:08 am to Dark Tiger
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wrap in foil
As soon as you wrap it in foil, you're steaming the potato, not baking it. The whole point of baking a potato is to achieve that dry, mealy texture that only comes from dry heat that evaporates the moisture out of it.
Posted on 6/2/12 at 4:10 am to Dark Tiger
Yummy, steamed potatoes. Wrapping a potato in foil holds the moisture inside the wrapper, the thing steams and doesn't allow the sugars of the starch component to properly cook and you are adding more water to that with your boiling process to boot. That is what a microwave does in a different manner.
Posted on 6/2/12 at 4:46 am to CITWTT
I'll take a steamy moist potato any day over a dry mealy one...to each his own.
Boiled potato>>>>>>>>>>>>microwave potato anyday
Posted on 6/2/12 at 6:51 am to Dark Tiger
Steamed potatoes as you are making lose thier "moistness" as soon as the skin is cut, and the starches haven't cooked as they should. Google James Beards( he is a little famous guy about food) baked potato recipe and find any part of your technique in it.
Posted on 6/2/12 at 7:11 am to lovelsu
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Fatest time to bake a potato
Throwing it in the trash, baked potatoes are
Posted on 6/2/12 at 7:59 am to Hulkklogan
I never wrap in foil or pierce. I scrub the skin, dry and rub oil or butter on the skin, bake in 350 or so oven until you can softly pierce with a fork which depending on size is typically close to an hour.
The skin is the best part.
Not the fastest but the way I do it.
The skin is the best part.
Not the fastest but the way I do it.
Posted on 6/2/12 at 8:32 am to Martini
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I never wrap in foil or pierce.
I've had one explode in my oven. It doesn't happen often but it makes a godawful mess. Now I pierce.
Posted on 6/2/12 at 8:39 am to Martini
To those of you who answered my question thanks a bunch - did not realize there were different variations of baking a potato (i.e. boiling, putting in microwave - then baking). I have always just scrubbed em, wrapped them in foil and baked them but I ususally do them at a low temp (have no idea why, that's how mom did them) for a couple of hours.
Martini, I like the way you do yours. Do you just put them on the rack or on a baking sheet?
Martini, I like the way you do yours. Do you just put them on the rack or on a baking sheet?
Posted on 6/2/12 at 8:40 am to Layabout
Rub with oil, salt the outside, and put on a baking sheet at 400. Still going to take an hour though, no way around that that I know of.
Posted on 6/2/12 at 10:51 am to lovelsu
I just put them on a baking sheet. I don't cook anything on the rack because I don't like to clean it and my housekeeper refuses too.
I like to eat the skin. And wrapping in foil does not cook the skin. Salt the outside too before you cook it.
I like to eat the skin. And wrapping in foil does not cook the skin. Salt the outside too before you cook it.
This post was edited on 6/2/12 at 10:52 am
Posted on 6/2/12 at 11:04 am to Martini
quote:I would think that the boss has the right to ell the employee the details of the job.
my housekeeper refuses too.
Posted on 6/2/12 at 2:37 pm to Martini
I have a few small racks that fit in the dishwasher, nicely. I do them like Martini does with salt on the outside of the potato, put them on the racks and I put a piece of foil on the oven rack under them for the drips from the oil or butter. Potato comes up fluffy and moist with a crispy skin on the outside. The skin is my favorite part.
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