Potato Patch Recipes » easy baked potato http://www.potatopatchrecipes.com A Premier Internet Cooking & Recipe Site Specializing in Potato Recipes Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:57:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 How To Make A Baked Potato http://www.potatopatchrecipes.com/2009/02/how-to-make-a-baked-potato/ http://www.potatopatchrecipes.com/2009/02/how-to-make-a-baked-potato/#comments Sat, 21 Feb 2009 22:37:10 +0000 Potato Chef http://www.potatopatchrecipes.com/?p=1019 How To Make A Baked Potato? ]]> Have you ever in your entire life met a person that did not like a baked potato?  I never have.  It is amazing to me that so many people write in asking How To Make A Baked Potato? 

It seems a ridiculous question until you come to the realization that everybody seems to microwave their potatoes in order to save time.  Once you realize that, then the question of How To Make A Baked Potato does not seem ridiculous anymore. I guess if your mother did not take the time to show you around the kitchen, explain how to cook, use kitchen gadgets, or enjoy sharing food with friends and family, then how to cook baked potatoes would not be something you know off the top of your head.  But rest assured I know how to cook baked potatoes and will share my easy cooking recipe with you.

You can enjoy many dishes with a bake potato.  Has there ever been a Thanksgiving dinner served without a bake potato?  I don’t think so.  The baked potato is a mainstay with every holiday dinner or family get together.  And the baked potato is loved by old and young. 

Oven baked potatoes are the best.  People only want to microwave potatoes because it is faster.  But to get a true baked potato you will want oven baked potatoes.

Baked potatoes cooking in the kitchen reminds me of home and simple times.  I think the perfect baked potato is one that comes loaded with sour cream and bacon.  That is just my preference.  Everybody has their own opinion on the perfect  baked potato.

Cooking baked potatoes is a joy and not a time consuming chore.  In order to cook the perfect baked potato you will need to know how long to cook a baked potato.  We are going to let you know how long to cook a baked potato.

How To Make A Baked Potato

Ingredients

  • Potatoes The ideal baking potato is a Russet or Idaho potato.
  • Enough olive oil to give your potato a rub down

Directions

  1. Wash the potatoes. Leave the skins on.
  2. Take a fork and punch it into the potato a few times
  3. Rub the potato with the olive oil
  4. Preheat oven to 400
  5. Place the potato on a baking pan and place in oven
  6. Bake the potato for one hour
  7. A knife or fork should easily go through the potato when done. The temperature of the inside of the potato should be around 190f

Wrapping potatoes in foil before baking is a no-no.  You will end up with steamed potatoes.  Not the perfect baked potato.  Microwaving the baked potato  is a bigger no-no.  Oven baked potatoes need to be cooked in the oven.  Want a perfect baked potato?  Then follow the directions!

How Long To Cook A Baked Potato

  • 400 degrees – 50 to 60 minutes
    375 degrees – 60 to 70 minutes
    350 degrees – 70 to 90 minutes
    325 degrees – 90 to 110 minutes

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]]> http://www.potatopatchrecipes.com/2009/02/how-to-make-a-baked-potato/feed/ 8 Baked Potato Recipe http://www.potatopatchrecipes.com/2008/11/baked-potato-recipe/ http://www.potatopatchrecipes.com/2008/11/baked-potato-recipe/#comments Wed, 05 Nov 2008 02:25:03 +0000 Potato Chef http://www.potatopatchrecipes.com/?p=450 Baked Potato Recipe. You can always microwave your potato and call it a baked potato. Or you can cook your baked potato in the oven. Whatever way you choose to put together your baked potato recipe....you can count on it tasting great]]> Today we are going to learn how to make the Baked Potato Recipe.  You can always microwave your potato and call it a baked potato.  Or you can cook your baked potato in the oven.  When you microwave your baked potato it is a fast, easy, and simple way of cooking the potato quickly.  Baking the potato in the oven takes longer but gives you a crisp potato skin.  Whatever way you choose to put together your baked potato recipe….you can count on it tasting great. 

Just about any potato that you can buy in the store can be baked.  But in reality a good Russet potato is the best choice for a baked potato.   Russet potatoes are used a lot in potato recipes.

Before cooking the baked potato you will want to scrub it clean.  A vegetable brush will do the trick.

How To Bake A Potato

Directions

  • Preheat oven to 350F
  • Make sure the rack in the oven is set in the middle position
  • With a sharp knife you will want to pierce the potato about 8 times all around the potato. This will prevent the potato from exploding while it is being cooked.
  • To make the skin of your baked potato taste really good you should roll the potato in a dish of coarse salt before cooking
  • Place the potato on a cookie sheet and place in oven for 1 hour
  • About 1/2 hour into cooking turn the potato over to prevent browning on one side
  • The potato is done when it is fork tender or gives easily when squeezed in the middle.

There is no need to wrap the potato in aluminum foil or anything else before baking.

You can top your baked potato with sour cream, butter, bacon, or anything else you want.  This is one great potato recipe!

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