As I’ve mentioned before, I came into cooking seriously lacking. Even a baked potato was something I needed written instructions for. For the record, never microwave a small one for 8 minutes. The smoke is black, the smell is terrible… really, it’s just not pretty. It does crumble when you poke it though, which is kinda fun.
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.
Instructions:
- 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, including the eyes.
- 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.
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?
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