On Mon, 23 Oct 2017 13:43:49 -0400, jmcquown >
wrote:

>On 10/23/2017 10:04 AM, wrote:
>> jmcquown wrote:
>>>
>>> You can cook a russet potato in the microwave and call it baked.
>>> But it's not, really. It's not nearly as good as a russet that
>>> has been pricked with a fork, skin rubbed with butter, sprinkled
>>> with salt and baked in a hot oven. IMHO, of course.
>>
>> Usually when baking potatoes I'll bake a half dozen in the oven, then
>> I'll reheat the extras in the microwave... only a minute per and we
>> find no real difference from right out of the oven... in fact that's
>> what a lot of restaurants do.
>
>No they don't.

They toss them in the trash. . .