Microwave or Oven for Baked Tatties?

Eels100

Somebody in here is BOUND to know the answer to this!

We love baked tatties, and have them quite often. Now, I won't dispute that the best baked tatties are the ones cooked in the embers of a log fire wrapped in foil. But we haven't got a log fire in this house, just a microwave and an oven.

I always blast them in the microwave for 4-6 minutes before popping them into a hot oven to crisp the skins ... my query is: is that more economical than cooking them in the oven from scratch?

shammyjack

If electric oven then proibably yes, if gas oven definately not ! But I do it for speed .


shammy

Eels100

It's 'leccy - fan oven.

Penny-Pincher!!

I do 5 mins in a MW then about 10mins on high in oven to crisp up.

PP
xx

Horasio

Penny-Pincher!! wrote:

I do 5 mins in a MW then about 10mins on high in oven to crisp up.

PP
xx

Ditto or barbeque them

It takes forever to cook em from raw in the oven:yawn:

Penelope_Penguin

Hi, I too prefer crispy skins, but realise that oven on just for a baked potato makes the potato very expensive!

I only cook baked potatoes when I'm also making a cake, or a casserole, too, so have the oven on anyway.

Penny. x

Chipps

It's more economical to do them mostly in the microwave then finish in the oven to crisp up the skins. But if you have the oven on for something else it is better. Mind you, unless it is something that needs the oven on for ages I still start the potatoes off in the microwave, to bring the time needed down to the same as the rest of the cooking.
If I am serving something like baked beans with the potatoes, I will put them in a small casserole dish with a lid & put them in the oven with the potatoes.
My favourite jacket potatoes were the ones I had as a child, when we had a huge garden & had parties on bonfire night. My dad would put enormous potatoes into an old biscuit tin, & put it at the bottom of the bonfire. After the fireworks were finished & the bonfire almost out he would rake out the tin & the potatoes were cooked to perfection! The flavour was out of this world!

bazz

:rotfl: Hya. I read on a slimming website sometime ago about baked potatoes. Apparently an economical and tasty way of cooking them (and they are supposed to turn out like the ones on baked potato stalls), is to cook them in the slowcooker. Spray a little oil/frylight inside the slow cooker, and cook for about 6 hrs. I think you are supposed to turn them 1/2 way through. Don`t think it matters though. The slow cookers are very cheap to use. No good if you are in a hurry though! I haven`t tried this way yet. I usually blast them in the mircowave, and then oven cook.

Iona_Penny

Both ! I microwave until they are just tender inside and then wack in an oven to get the outside crispy; more moneysaving than the whole time in the oven and I just can't bear the total microwave jobbies

susank

I do the same whack the oven on full temp and do them in micro for till nearly finished (my micro works it out for me!) and then into oven to crisp up - nothing to beat a crispy skin.