On Monday, September 30, 2019 at 12:59:03 PM UTC-4, Gary wrote:
> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >
> > On Monday, September 30, 2019 at 12:40:24 PM UTC-4, wrote:
> >
> > > That's the general consensus around here. Bake potatoes when the oven is going
> > > to be fired up for a long time cooking something else.
> >
> > General consensus, perhaps. I fire up the oven whenever I want a baked
> > potato, regardless of what else is happening in the kitchen.
> >
> > Happily, I usually want them only in the winter, when the "waste" heat
> > from the oven offsets the furnace.
>
> Waste heat in oven is a good thing on cold winter days. Luckily
> for me, I prefer potatoes microwaved, then chopped. No residual
> heat here.

I like the crispy skin. I sometimes discard most of the insides of
the potato.

Cindy Hamilton