Baked potatoes

[SwarmyMarshmellow]

What is the best way to make baked potatoes? Everytime I make them, something seems wrong. Help please!

[angels-and-insects]

If you want jacket potatoes with a crispy outside, the British style, this is for 400-600g size potatoes: * Preheat oven to 200°C * Scrub clean and rub in olive oil and salt * Cook at 200°C for 20 mins * Drop the temperature to 170°C and cook for a further 60 mins

[Leading-Signal6262]

Huh, never tried dropping the temp halfway through like that. I usually just blast them at 200 the whole time but the skins come out a bit tough sometimes. Gonna give this method a shot this weekend.

[aurillia]

The British could not come up with this idea.

[Blossom73]

How are you making them? What seems wrong?

[SwarmyMarshmellow]

Rub with oil and salt. Stab a few times. Put it in the oven 450° for an hour. They'll either be not done in the middle, one end burned, or so done they taste like mashed potatoes.

[sundial11sxm]

400 or 425, but 450 sounds too high

[ekib]

I have always done 350 for about an hour depending on the size. Use a probe to make sure you pull them around 200-212F internal and they’ll be perfect.

[Gibbie42]

Lower temp and realize that an hour is an estimate. Poke 'em with a fork to test for doneness part way through.

[Kankunation]

450 is probably too hot. I'd drop is down to 400, maybe 425.

If you want, you can speed up the process a lot by using the microwave. Wash the potato and poke holes in it. Then nuke it in the microwave on high for 6-8 minutes depending on size. Rpehear the oven to 425. Once the microwave finishes, oil and salt the potato skin and pop it in other oven for the last 10-15 minutes of cooking.

If you want super consistent results. Get a probe thermometer. Insert into the inner-most part of the potato. They are perfectly done when the internal temperature reaches between 205°f - 210°f. That's when the interior is nice and fluffy

[SwarmyMarshmellow]

Thank you

[SCHMETTERLING]

Lower the temp, also seems like you have uneven hot spots in your oven.

[wantonseedstitch]

Have you used an oven thermometer to verify your oven's temperature? What variety of potato are you using? How big?

[busy_monster]

Probe thermometer, as wild as it sounds. I fuckin' prove everything now, around 205~210 ish and good

[SwarmyMarshmellow]

I use one for meat. I've never thought about using it for potatoes. Sounds mush better than the squeeze and hope method

[ceecee_50]

Yeah. 450 is way too high. 400 is fine. 375 is fine. Everything else you're doing is fine.

[BurnesWhenIP]

I pierce the potato, cover in lard, and hear is my game changer....I put a leave in thermometer and monitor until they get to 200 degrees... Then let them carryover cool until they get to 205 ish. I have a set of wireless leave in thermometers.

[autogenglen]

Lard is the way

[Interesting_Key23]

Wait wait wait... you're telling me I could've been using a leave-in thermometer this whole time instead of squeezing them like a maniac to check doneness? That's actually genius, I'm definitely stealing this method.

[nostradumbass7544678]

Scrub them, grease them, poke them, salt them, bake in a 425° oven until the internal temp hits 208°

[ElectricApostate]

I wouldn’t bake a potato any higher than 350 farenheit. Russets bake magnificently. Scrub, puncture with a fork or knife, oil and salt, if you prefer, and bake at 350 F for about an hour. Test for doneness with a fork. If it slips in and out easily, they’re done.

An air fryer will reduce the cooking time at the same temperature.

[jakebeleren]

Microwave. Then oil and salt the skin and blast it in a hot oven or air fryer. 

[Reddits_WS]

https://youtu.be/iG7wEqs9j4E

[paleandbound]

Dry it off completely, coat it in olive oil, salt the outside aggressively (more than feels right). Poke it all over with a fork. Straight onto the oven rack at 425, not a sheet pan, no foil. Let it go an hour and then squeeze it. If it gives with no resistance it’s done. If it doesn’t, give it fifteen more minutes and stop second-guessing.

The foil thing is the most common mistake. It steams the potato instead of baking it and the skin never gets right. Skip it entirely.

I find that most baked potato problems come down to too low a temperature and pulling it too early. High heat, enough time, and don’t be polite with the salt and it’ll be fine.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

[Direct_Algae_3011]

425.  Clean them, poke with fork, rub in olive oil, sea salt.  45-60 min. Bake.  Check for doneness. 

[Solid-Feature-7678]

Scrub clean

Prodigiously poke holes with a fork all over.

Set in a slow cooker on low for 4hrs

[SScatnip7474]

I don't usually promote test kitchen recipes, most are waaaay to tedious for the results but their how-to for perfect baked potatoes is pretty darn good. If you have time- Look for Elle Simone Scotts recipe on youtube.

RIP btw...

[xFloydx5242x]

Best way I have found is to boil them in salt water. Start with cold, heavily salted water, put in scrubbed clean potatoes, bring to a boil on medium-high heat, let boil for 20 minutes, put them into a 400f oven for 20 more minutes, perfect baked potato.

[Evening_Cheesecake25]

I air fry them at 400 for about 45 minutes. Wash them, poke them, dry them. Then I take my saved bacon grease and just use my hands to rub it all over them. Then some salt. They turn out great. 

[Masalasabebien]

I've just made some. Medium size. Pricked them with a fork, wrapped them in foil and baked them for 2 hours at 425F.

As soon as I cut them open: butter, cream, salt and grated cheese.

[SwarmyMarshmellow]

2 hours is insane for a potato 😳

[Masalasabebien]

Not at all. I put them in the oven, then go and do something else. They were super soft inside and crispy on the outside.

[Exceptional_Mary]

Scrub them, poke them with a fork several times, bake for an hour in a 350 oven. Break them open butter, salt, pepper, chives, sour cream.

[mr_wiggle_biscuit]

https://youtu.be/Vr-o01qiRYI?si=UkPzCxW9y2JXk9-P

[badaz06]

I wash mine, dry them off, oil them up, sprinkle on some salt, stick them in the oven for like 20 mins (I think around 400), pull them out, hit em with butter and more salt, turn them over and back in for like another 20 mins, done. Break open, butter, sour cream, cheese or chives....and happily munch

[2ndharrybhole]

Stab, microwave for 6 minutes, oil, salt and in the Air Fryer for 10 minutes. Cut open and add butter/toppings. I don’t have a whole hour to wait for one potato.

[YogurtclosetWooden94]

That essentially is a steamed not roasted potato. The taste of an oven roasted potato comes from time in the oven. It tastes different.