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Jacket Potatoes
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How do you a cook them in the oven?
I just always shove them in the microwave for 8 minutes but I fancy seeing what there like done in the oven.
How long should I cook them for and on what gas mark? Do I need oil/tinfoil too?
I just always shove them in the microwave for 8 minutes but I fancy seeing what there like done in the oven.
How long should I cook them for and on what gas mark? Do I need oil/tinfoil too?
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I usually microwave them for about 5 mins until nearly done, and then pop them in the oven for about half an hour at some random temperature until they're crispy (wouldn't really help anyway as my oven has its own concept of temperature)
It did take forever to cook...I got board and ended up shoving it in the microwave after an hour and a half of waiting :rolleyes:
Also, rub the skin with some salt before baking it, makes it even more crisp and tasty
I much prefer potatoes baked in the oven but nearly always microwave them cos I can't be bothered to wait! They are worth it though when you've got time and patience.
Just finish them off in the oven, otherwise it takes forever and wastes loads of gas/electric.
That's why it's good to turn it over part way through the microwave time and also it's good to only do them say 70% in the microwave and then finish them off in the oven to dry them out :yes:
Although all done in oven is probably even better if you have the patience :thumb:
I know!! I wasn't suggesting that you do!! I've learn this recently with cooking beans and pulses and roasting tomatoes, that actually it's really easy if you are already going to be in at that time just to put them on and leave them and just check them a few times during the cooking time whilst getting on with whatever else you would have been doing! But often I do just want food right now and I'm not going to wait more than a few minutes because I'm hungry and impatient
But they do taste better done your way I think, as that's how they do them down at the pub I go to and they are the best ever jacket potatoes.
Our regular pub was closed for refurbishment for about 4 weeks last year and during this time we had the joys of an evening in a Weatherspoons. My friend's jacket potato was still frozen in the middle!! Apparently they bake them and freeze them and then re-heat them to order :yuck: It was the grossest meal I'd had for ages and I literally thought I was going to vomit on the pavement on the way home (and not a drop of alcohol had touched my lips that night!!) Thank God the good old Griffin re-opened the next week
I know! And it was about a fiver for the potato with cheese and beans whereas it's only £3.50 for that at our usual pub. Also that night in Weatherspoons, I had a cup of tea and it was the rankest tea ever and when I asked for milk (I had to actually ask for milk for my tea, it wasn't like offered as standard!!) it was hot and frothy like you could put in coffee. I decided just to use it and now realise why we never put hot frothy milk in tea!! I'm trying to remember what else was wrong with the meal that night but I just remember that almost everything was awful and I remember the long walk back to the station literally having to stop a few times thinking I was going to vomit as the meal was so disgusting!!
They werent awful though
:chin: Maybe yours were cooked all the way through and you didn't leave the middles still frozen
I don't bother with the microwave or foil.
Just rub them in a little oil and salt, give them a few pricks with the fork to stop them exploding and cook large ones for just over an hour at about 200.
Or just thick :chin:
I should have complained straight away but I though oh what the hell and lived to regret it!!