On Mon, 30 Sep 2019 09:48:52 -0700 (PDT), 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.
>
>Cindy Hamilton

During the winter heating season is pretty much the only time I light
the oven, and even during winter I don't bake potatoes alone, always
with smething else like roast beef, a chicken, or a cake.

The best baked potatoes I remember were Mickies.
http://www.edteck.com/rothberg/taste-of-past.htm
A true story, repeated in NYC at least a million times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/01/d...lyn-style.html
I still often think about The Mick and miss him.