Best Way to Bake Potato?

[Smart]

Microwave fan here too

Wash, poke a few holes in it, wrap in saran wrap, or an open ziploc will work, nuke for 7-8 minutes and poke the center with a fork. If its not done, add another minute or two. Perfect every time and I prefer the skin on a microwaved potato versus a baked one.

[hogbuster]

wash poke holes in it with fork rub with butter then heres the best part wrap whole potato with bacon then wrap with foil and put in oven and when that potato comes out don't tell me why but the bacon makes the whole potato taste different (better) and the bacon makes for a good topping

bacon makes all better

[Charlie6Delta]

Dip in bacon grease then sprinkle with kosher salt.
400 in oven.
I like a little crisp skin on my baked potatoes so the microwave doesn't work for me.

Same here, I use Crisco. I love the crunchy skin.

[Dr. Evil]

Boil that sucker about 20 minutes. take out and roll in sea salt

I think he's asking about baking a potato, not boiling.

[Ron]

Put em in a plastic grocery sack and tie the loops together. it will help act as a steamer in the microwave

^^^^^^^^^^^^^This how we do them

[eaglegolfj]

covered bowl sliced up till you get the tenderness you want add sour cream butter cheese BEACON and you are good to go

[GS91]

Wash it, wrap a WET paper towel around it, put it in a zip lock, leave zip lock open, put it in microwave.
It will come out moist.
4-8 minutes

this^^^^^

[moe monsarrat]

Pierce potato with a fork a bunch of times. Wrap in foil with a tablespoon of olive oil and a clove of minced garlic. Bake at 425 for a hour. Incredible!

[Mike D]

I don't poke holes in my taters. They seem to dry out more when I do that.

[Johnny Dangerr]

Pierce potato with a fork a bunch of times. Wrap in foil with a tablespoon of olive oil and a clove of minced garlic. Bake at 425 for a hour. Incredible!

Kool thread. We will try a couple of these ideas, and this one will be first..........

[Logan5]

I guess there is more than one way to bake a potato

[Ironman]

I don't poke holes in my taters. They seem to dry out more when I do that.

Lucky they don't blow up!

[dustoffer]

and stick a 16d nail in it. It will help it cook from the inside too.

I have a handful of aluminum nails for this--aluminum is a much better conductor of heat than iron/steel.

[basskicker24]

I smear mine w/ butter.
Sprinkle w/ sea salt.
Wrap in tin foil.
Oven for about an hour to 1.5 hrs depending on size of potatoe at 425 degrees.

This is the best way.

[AntlerMax]

When we hunted in Mexico we had a piece of pipe about 3' long with a handle made of rebar welded on it. Season the taters with salt or Tony's and wrap in foil.

Slide the taters inside of the pipe and put the pipe in the coals and cover it. The pipe heating up would cook the taters evenly all around and it cooked them quicker than in the oven....

If I can find it, I'll take pics and put it on the D-I-Y thread...

Oh, yeah... we also had a poker made out of rebar to shove them out of the pipe when they're done.