The Perfect Baked Potato
photo by lazyme
- Ready In:
- 1hr 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 4
- Serves:
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4
ingredients
directions
- Pre- heat the oven to 200c/Gas6.
- Be sure to get nice big potaoes and leave them in their skins.
- Wash the potaoes and then dry them.
- Now rub the skins with olive oil and sprinkle with a little crushed sea salt.
- Prick the skin of the potaotes here and there with a fork a few times.
- Bake on the bars of a pre-heated oven for at least an hour or even 1 hour and 30 minutes.
- The time will of course depend on the size of your potatoes and the variety.
- The potato is done when you can easily insert a knife into it and it. And the skin should be nice and crisp. There is nothing worse than a baked potato that's not cooked through so make sure it is.
- Cut a big cross on each potato and add a big dollop of butter and some salt. You don't have to add salt but it just won't taste the same.
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Nice to have the classic method of baking potatoes! The only things I would add are that you can use butter, margarine or almost any oil; and the best way to check that they are done is to squeeze them. You can do this with your hand if you are fairly quick about it, even though they are very hot. The skin should feel well cooked and the flesh should give quite easily. But don't worry too much, as its quite hard to overbake a potato!
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