Perfect baked potatoes

girlybags

I've tried these, they're nice but wouldn't buy them again. I just micro a few spuds for 5 mins or so then finish them off in the oven for 20 mins, wrap in foil and keep them in the fridge. I have one for my dinner nearly everyday so they don't stay in the fridge long and keep for a week easily! I reheat for a couple of mins in the micro and they're ready to eat. Best of both worlds for cost of spuds/gas/elec bills

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girlybags wrote: »

I've tried these, they're nice but wouldn't buy them again. I just micro a few spuds for 5 mins or so then finish them off in the oven for 20 mins, wrap in foil and keep them in the fridge. I have one for my dinner nearly everyday so they don't stay in the fridge long and keep for a week easily! I reheat for a couple of mins in the micro and they're ready to eat. Best of both worlds for cost of spuds/gas/elec bills

That was useful thanks. Purely as a money saving excercise I bought a 12kg sack of potatoes from Morrisons and baked the whole lot. Then put them in the freezer. I have some doubts about the texture when de-frosted so in future may copy you and just bake 1 weeks worth.....

princess*daisy

This thread made me chuckle.

I totally agree that frozen baked potatoes are ridiculous. BUT... the worst thing I spotted recently was a frozen cheese and ham toastie!!! It was about £1.99! :eek: Seriously, how much skill and time can it possibly take to make toast with cheese and ham on from scratch??!!

Farway

princess*daisy wrote: »

This thread made me chuckle.

I totally agree that frozen baked potatoes are ridiculous. BUT... the worst thing I spotted recently was a frozen cheese and ham toastie!!! It was about £1.99! :eek: Seriously, how much skill and time can it possibly take to make toast with cheese and ham on from scratch??!!

Possibly as much time as it takes to wash & shred a lettuce?

lally666young

My husbband saw these and said ohh look these will be handy for work, or for 'lazy people' who cant be bothered to cook!!! I cant belive and the price is disgusting, you can by a big bag of spuds in Aldi's for what they charge for 2 of these. They just dont appeal to me. Seems like they are targeted at the student market. Whatever next????

krlyr

lally666young wrote: »

Whatever next????

Frozen chips? Instant mash? Maybe even pre-cooked, complete ready meals :eek:

(only joking with you - but people do pay for convenience, no matter how bonkers it seems!)

dibuzz

My mum tends to buy that sort of thing and ready meals. Like she says, there's no point buying more than she needs although she sometimes buys me a huge chunk of cheese or bag of spuds and just takes a couple of days worth for herself.
I remember being totally shocked when I saw bags of ice cubes and frozen mash but an old lady was picking some mash up the other day and said how handy it is for her to make a little cottage pie since she got arthritis. I hadn't thought about it and just thought it was lazy.
Still can't get over people paying for blocks of frozen water though :eek:

spike7451

jessbrown100 wrote: »

Oh we really like the frozen rice with the vegetables in them from Mr A, yes, we can cook rice when we want to but when we get in from work (at ridiculous o'clock) and still have our little man to feed and bath and the housework to do and the clothes and pack ups to get organised for tomorrow, it's a good standby. And as we normally make it with batch cooked and frozen curry or chili etc I really don't think that I'm betraying my 'home-cooking ethos' too much

Same here,I keep a bog of either the Asda 4x golden vegatable rice portions or a bag of Icelands Golden rice in the freezer for the same reason,I batch cook chili & curry so when I leave for work in the morning,I take a batch out of the freezer & defrost in the fridge,then nuke it & the rice when I get home.Dinner in less than 5 minutes!:D

zippychick

as theres some great baked potato tips in here, ive merged this with our existing baked spud thread

ZIP

marmiterulesok

Hi.Can anyone please tell me how to do a baked potato in the microwave?Thank you.