On Mon, 30 Sep 2019 12:59:14 -0400, 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.

Next you do a roast beef or a chicken nothing prevents from baking a
half dozen spuds, wrap the overage in plastic and keep in the fridge
for up to ten days, then nuke as needed,