"Julie Bove" wrote in message ...


"Ophelia" > wrote in message
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> "Roy" wrote in message
> ...
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> 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.
> ====
>
> All about preference I suppose.

I've had them all different ways. Seems my preferred potatoes are mashed or
once in a while, certain French fries. Any other way, doesn't seem to matter
to me. They're food and I eat them. They just don't thrill me.

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Whereas I love them fried)