How do you make a jacket potato?

[Taz]

men dont no a thing bout cooking hes (taz you are a guy right) not answered since yday hope you int blow yourself up

LOL! Yep, I am a guy. No, I didn't blow myself yet!!! I've suffered a slight technical problem: I can't find the manual to operate the oven...

Once I find it i'll know how to switch it on...

[johnny02004976]

I can't find the manual to operate the oven...
Once I find it i'll know how to switch it on...

ridiculous

[Taz]

No, I didn't blow myself yet!!!

OMG! Did I say that!!! Sorry for the Freudian slip...

[Lee H]

I've found the best jacket potatoes are the one's you make on bonfire night.

Wrap them in tinfoil and throw them onto the embers of the fire and wait an hour or two for them to cook

As for microwaving - I'll stopped using mine as food tastes 100% better when cooked the old fashioned way i.e electric or gas cooker and not by making the water molecules vibrate a billion times a second.

[Sair33]

I usually microwave for about 5 mins, then put in the oven for 15-20 mins to crisp the skin a bit.
I don't like them straight from the microwave, but haven't the patience to wait the hours it takes to cook them the oven

I have to agree with the bonfire ones being good though.. there's something great about eating food you cooked over a fire!

[snedger]

Hello
Haven't any of you guys got a a combi micro/convection oven?
Crispy jacket pot in about 12 mins if you prick the potato with a fork and then coat it a mix of olive oil; turmeric; chili powder and coarse salt - bit messy and you'll have greasy hands for ages. Set the oven to a combi programme - I override mine and boost the micro to max and convection to max. Single pot in about 12 minutes; 2 pots in about 18 minutes. Don't even need to bother turning the pot/s
Skin will be crispy and inside cooked perfectly.
Cheers
snedger

[RavenNight]

OKay the ULTIMATE Jacket Pot.

Get a decent sized potato then wash it, dry it very carefully, dryness is the key so leave it for a little while if you can. Then rub olive oil into the skin then rub in some sea salt. PLace in the oven and cook for about an 1 1/2 hours to 1 3/4 hours at about 170. I also resent the implication that men know nothing about cooking! I can outbake and cook any women I know.

[teachmech]

OKay the ULTIMATE Jacket Pot.

Get a decent sized potato then wash it, dry it very carefully, dryness is the key so leave it for a little while if you can. Then rub olive oil into the skin then rub in some sea salt. PLace in the oven and cook for about an 1 1/2 hours to 1 3/4 hours at about 170. I also resent the implication that men know nothing about cooking! I can outbake and cook any women I know.

Only alteration is that I rub with butter then salt it makes excellent jack potatoes all cripsy skin and well cooked inside.

[RavenNight]

Yeah if that skin aint crispy then that pot ain't baked.

[kushtibari]

OKay the ULTIMATE Jacket Pot.

Get a decent sized potato then wash it, dry it very carefully, dryness is the key so leave it for a little while if you can. Then rub olive oil into the skin then rub in some sea salt. PLace in the oven and cook for about an 1 1/2 hours to 1 3/4 hours at about 170. I also resent the implication that men know nothing about cooking! I can outbake and cook any women I know.

I do it exactly the same way but without the salt - (lthough I cook them slightly lower at 150 (double fan oven though).

[0iD]

I put a metal skewer thro mine before putting in the oven, Helps transfer the heat all the way thro if it's a big'un. Then 60-90 mins @ 180c works in our oven. Butter & grated cheddar for the best filling

[Sumanji]

LOL just Googled how to make a JackPot and came across this thread

Thanks Hexens!!

[Merlin4458]

men dont no a thing bout cooking hes (taz you are a guy right) not answered since yday hope you int blow yourself up

2 ways to do it.....

1 micowave....prick it put it in on high for bout 8 to 10 mins
look at it half way through and turn it over if you wish when dont add filling and eat.

2 oven... put oven on 100 to 150 prick it put salt on it then wrap in tin foil put it in for few hours i dont no how but saut makes it taste really nice when done open add filling and eat.

u suggested the same technique as the 8 men above u...

[Fennie]

The way I do mine, is:

1. Wash it
2. Stab it with a fork all over
3. Rub some salt all over
4. Microwave it on full power for 10 minutes
5. Then stick a metal knife (standard table knife) into the middle and put it in the oven for a hour or so

[Zak33]

[*]Then stick a metal knife (standard table knife) into the middle and put it in the oven for a hour or so[/LIST]

for the win.

I do the same, but with two metal skewers through each one, so I can get 2 or 3 spuds onto each pair of skewers.

By the way, kebab skewers, of the kind I mean here, as really cheap in the supermarkets now. Normally hung on the end of an aisle somewhere almost invisible for 79p for 6 of them. Everyone should have some,

The hot matel takes the heat through the spud in the oven hence the knife working too.

[Tumble]

eenteresting, meester Bont.. does this skewering method reduce cooking time?