The Perfect Baked Potato
Sides | Baking | Vegetables
SERVES 4 - START TO FINISH: 1 hour, 5 minutes
Cooking Notes
Cook the number of potatoes you need to serve 1 per person.
The Perfect Baked Potato
4 large baking potatoes
Toppings of choice
Preheat the oven to 475 degrees F.
Scrub the potatoes, and prick each twice with a fork. Bake, uncovered, directly on the oven racks, for 1 hour.
Using oven mitts or long tongs, carefully remove the potatoes from the oven. Serve at once with toppings of choice.
The Perfect Baked Potato
We'd never been able to bake a perfect steakhouse potato – with the skin a little crunchy, and the middle, moist and fluffy. Then a friend who owns several restaurants said “real" baked potatoes need to cook at a very high temperature, without foil or fat, for an hour. After our first try and the astounded look on our husbands' faces, we knew we'd hit the jackpot.
The Perfect Baked Potato
Feel Good About: Served plain, baked potatoes are fat-free and fiber-rich.
Approximate Values Per Serving (with potato skin): 278 calories, 0 g fat, 0 g cholesterol, 7 g protein, 63 g carbohydrates, 7 g dietary fiber, 30 mg sodium
Comments
From square peg web - July 24, 2010
I always wash mine under the tap, then spear it with a fork all over and rub it with rock salt (this makes the skin extra crispy), then i put a metal skewer through the potato (this helps the inside cook quicker and if you don't have a skewer use a metal fork) then leave it in the oven for about 1hr 30 mins and voila perfect baked potato!
From bill s - July 14, 2011
Would this also work with sweet potatoes?
From Alicia Ross - July 15, 2011
Yes, Bill it does, but you need to put a sheet of foil under a sweet potato as it will ooze it's sweet juices.
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