On 9/30/2019 10:39 PM, Roy wrote:
> On Monday, September 30, 2019 at 1:31:19 PM UTC-6, Ophelia wrote:
>> "Gary" wrote in message ...
>>
>> 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.
>>
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>> I microwave my baked potatoes and then brown them in the oven.
>
> I find that micro-waved potatoes are great and when buttered are heavenly...moist and flavorful.
> Baking for two hours is wasteful when 6 to 8 minutes for a couple of potatoes
> will suffice. Gawd...it ain't rocket-science.
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No, not the same. I make a potato in the MW occasionally but nowhere
near as good as a properly baked one. It isn't rocket science, the MW
is just not the same. Cooks, does not baek.