"Dawn" > wrote in message
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> Ken Knecht wrote:
>> Anyone have a good method of making 'baked' potatoes in the microwave
>> that
>> taste like potatoes baked in a regular oven?
>>
>
> Nuked potatoes tend to steam and get a bit rubbery. However, a few
> minutes in the microwave can dramatically shorten the time they need to
> be in the oven. I tend to start my potatoes by getting them hot and
> just starting to steam, then put them in the big oven for the remaining
> time. If it is a really large one, you may need to turn it over midway
> in the microwave, as they will get soggy on the bottom side if they sit
> in the same position too long, and cook unevenly.
>
>

Excellent advice.



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cybercat wrote:
> "Dawn" wrote:
> > Ken Knecht wrote:
> >> Anyone have a good method of making 'baked' potatoes in the microwave
> >> that taste like potatoes baked in a regular oven?
> >
> > Nuked potatoes tend to steam and get a bit rubbery. However, a few
> > minutes in the microwave can dramatically shorten the time they need to
> > be in the oven. I tend to start my potatoes by getting them hot and
> > just starting to steam, then put them in the big oven for the remaining
> > time. If it is a really large one, you may need to turn it over midway
> > in the microwave, as they will get soggy on the bottom side if they sit
> > in the same position too long, and cook unevenly.
>
> Excellent advice.

Nonsense... that's no advice at all.

There's no point in using both nuker and conventional oven... if only
one, two, or even three potatoes then may as well finish in the
nuker... there is no sense in heating an entire oven for just one, two,
or three potatoes. And with more than four the time is going to be
close to the same with either oven. And I wouldn't light my oven for
less than six baked potatoes... in fact I wouldn't light my oven
regardless for just baked potatoes.. at the very least may as well
roast a chicken too.

And I see nothing awful about nuked potatoes... main difference is that
the skin doesn't become a crisp shell, but so what... the vast majority
of baked potato eaters don't eat any of the skin anyway, just ask
anyone who clears restaurant tables... not only don't they eat the skin
most folks barely eat half the insides. Most folks attack the entree
first while it's still hot, then by the time they've finished they're
too stuffed to be filling up on potato, especially because by then
they're contemplating dessert. I've witnessed the same phenomena when
serving guests at home, most of the baked potatoes end up in the
garbage... I no longer make baked potatoes for guests, haven't for many
years. Serve wedges of pared spuds rubbed in oil and roasted till
puffy, crispy, golden brown and folks will fight over the last piece,
can't make enough. Baked in their jackets spuds is the fare of
impoverished Irish... stolen potatoes they roast in an open fire,
they're called mickys, the spuds too. hehe

Sheldon

Sheldon wrote:
> cybercat wrote:
> > "Dawn" wrote:
> > > Ken Knecht wrote:
> > >> Anyone have a good method of making 'baked' potatoes in the microwave
> > >> that taste like potatoes baked in a regular oven?
> > >
> > > Nuked potatoes tend to steam and get a bit rubbery. However, a few
> > > minutes in the microwave can dramatically shorten the time they need to
> > > be in the oven. I tend to start my potatoes by getting them hot and
> > > just starting to steam, then put them in the big oven for the remaining
> > > time. If it is a really large one, you may need to turn it over midway
> > > in the microwave, as they will get soggy on the bottom side if they sit
> > > in the same position too long, and cook unevenly.
> >
> > Excellent advice.

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> And I see nothing awful about nuked potatoes... main difference is that
> the skin doesn't become a crisp shell, but so what... the vast majority
> of baked potato eaters don't eat any of the skin anyway, just ask
> anyone who clears restaurant tables... not only don't they eat the skin
> most folks barely eat half the insides.

What? In my family the skins, loaded with butter, are the best part
of a baked potato. The insides are okay but come a sad second to
crispy potato skins. Stuffed baked potatos are delicious.

There is nothing wrong with a nuked potato, but it has nothing in
common with a real baked potato, it is much more like a boiled or
steamed potato.

John Kane, Kingston ON Canada

John Kane wrote:

> What? In my family the skins, loaded with butter, are the best part
> of a baked potato. The insides are okay but come a sad second to
> crispy potato skins.

I'm so with ya there!A nice dry crispy potato skin, with lots of butter,
salt and pepper, make the best start to a meal. As children we were
allowed to gather at the table and enjoy the potato skins immediately,
even while my mother was serving out the rest of the meal so we could
enjoy them at their best.

"Goomba38" > wrote

> John Kane wrote:
>
>> What? In my family the skins, loaded with butter, are the best part
>> of a baked potato. The insides are okay but come a sad second to
>> crispy potato skins.
>
> I'm so with ya there!A nice dry crispy potato skin, with lots of butter,
> salt and pepper, make the best start to a meal. As children we were
> allowed to gather at the table and enjoy the potato skins immediately,
> even while my mother was serving out the rest of the meal so we could
> enjoy them at their best.

Usually a baked potato (half of one of those enormous ones, anyway) is
a side dish, and I eat some of the potato guts and the skin is wrapped up
and saved for breakfast. I zap it until it's warm and butter it.

nancy