The culinary school secret to making PERFECT baked potatoes!
Description: The baked potato is a truly American dish. A good baked potato is fluffy, white and almost dry. To make perfect baked potatoes, you rub the scrubbed, dry skin with oil, and slice the ends off. Slicing the ends off allows the potatoes to let off steam. You then bake them in a hot 400 degree oven until they are cooked through (about 1 hour).
Don't wrap them in foil! Wrapping them in foil will trap moisture and steam the potato. We want to BAKE the potato, not steam it. Plus, they'll cook faster unwrapped and uncovered.
A baked potato becomes, discolored, moist and soggy after about an hour of cooking, So, you have to eat them right away.
This is a problem for restaurants. So, most often, a restaurant will bake the potato until about 75% cooked through, then they will refrigerate them, and then when you order one, they will finish cooking it in a microwave oven. That's another reason why nothing beats a proper home-cooked baked potato!
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Don't wrap them in foil! Wrapping them in foil will trap moisture and steam the potato. We want to BAKE the potato, not steam it. Plus, they'll cook faster unwrapped and uncovered.
A baked potato becomes, discolored, moist and soggy after about an hour of cooking, So, you have to eat them right away.
This is a problem for restaurants. So, most often, a restaurant will bake the potato until about 75% cooked through, then they will refrigerate them, and then when you order one, they will finish cooking it in a microwave oven. That's another reason why nothing beats a proper home-cooked baked potato!
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