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Fortunately, oven baked potatoes are ridiculously easy. You don't even need to dirty a pan! For the most basic way to do this, you seriously just need potatoes (russet is most common) and an oven.
Set your oven at 350°F.
Clean your potatoes... get dirt off of them, and using a knife or even a clean fingernail, take out any little weird looking parts.
Now, here comes the choices -- you can either just stab a couple holes in it with a fork, or wrap it in tin foil, and then just stick it in there, right on the rack.
An hour later (1 hour, 15 minutes if you're doing 4 or more potatoes, usually), you have a baked potato.
Seriously, it's that easy.
Now, if you wanna fancy them up a little, it STILL doesn't take much effort. After washing them and cutting out anything funky, rub or roll the outside in olive oil, then cover in kosher or rock salt. THEN bake, again either just on the rack or in tin foil, either way.
So simple even I can do it. And I have yet to really screw them up since the microwave incident...
Is there anything you do differently?
Okay. I'm going to try it. The last THREE times I've tried to bake potatoes, I've been left with something raw and unstirrable. We'll see if following your instructions will get me better than "winging it" has in the past!
ReplyDeleteGood luck, Jess. :) If you're not sure if it's done, stick a fork in it and make sure it's soft. If you do the olive oil thing, the skin will get all super wrinkly and poofy and good too.
DeleteOh, and sometimes I put it at 400 degrees if the potato is huge.
DeleteI do mine longer at a lower temp. More like 2 hours at 350 and I do wrap them in tinfoil. It protects them from drying out, I think. Or maybe it just protects them from alien mind-reading. Meh. I poke 'em regardless. I just like to. ;)
ReplyDeleteI stab them with a fork, rub butter all over them, and wrap them in tinfoil. I usually do it at 400* for an hour and a half. Hasn't failed me yet :)
ReplyDeleteAnd, when I was starting out, I had to ask someone how to do it. The butter was my addition, though. Makes it taste more like a restaurant potato!
I put a bit of olive oil and sprinkle with sea salt after wrapping with Tinfoil and then bake! You can also leave them in a crock pot overnight instead of baking using the same method :)
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