"dsi1" wrote in message
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On Monday, September 30, 2019 at 4:39:52 PM UTC-10, 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.
> >
> > ====
> >
> > 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.
> ====

The old way of doing things take a long time to die. My guess is that the
best way of cooking a whole potato is to microwave it and then dump it in a
hot deep fryer.

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I have never tried that Hmm I just might give it a go