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On Thu 03 Jul 2008 06:17:38a, Christine Dabney told us...

> On Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:07:20 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
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>>Oil has never worked for me, only a solid fat. Baking potatoes at a high
>>temperature is far more important than convection. What temperature did
>>you use? I never bake them at less than 425°.

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> The solid fat we always used (cause we were southerners) was bacon
> fat. And we baked them at 400.
>
> Christine, up early to do 4th of July prep.
>


I used to use bacon fat a lot, but I don't keep much around anymore. :-(

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