On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 00:03:33 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>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.
>>>
>>> ====
>>>
>>> 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.
>> ====
>>
>>
>>
>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.

I nuke them but agree they are nicer when baked properly in the oven.
All same as casseroles, not the same cooked in a few minutes in a
pressure cooker, used to love the handiness of it when my kids were
little, but flavour-wise it never measured up.