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2006-07-17 08:29:30 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
Phsycho-cook has just made me turn on the oven and scrub up a few tatties!!!!
2006-07-17 08:58:33 · update #1
Oven baking a potato involves much higher heat levels and longer cooking. The higher heat level causes some of the starches to carmelize forming a more complex flavor--think about the difference between a grilled burger and a McDonald's burger. The longer cooking allows the moisture in the potato to leave there's less water in each bite so each bite is fluffier and has a more intense potato flavor. Since there's less water the potato also soaks up butter and sour cream more easily!! I'm getting hungry!
2006-07-17 08:54:29 · answer #1 · answered by psycho-cook 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I purely ever include baked potatoes in a meal if I have the oven on for different makes use of. Like baking or a stew or a roast. I evaluate it a gross waste of ability to positioned an oven on in basic terms to bake one or 2 potatoes. not purely is it undesirable for the planet, it really is an price i will not arise with the money for any more suitable. My kin and that i love the crunchy epidermis of a baked potato, so the microwave version isn't an option. I have chanced on that baked potato intake has lengthy gone down considering i began making potato skins and potato wedges rather. They keep a large style of time and ability. yet another party of the position "time is money"! LOL!
2016-12-10 10:58:09 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because of the way it's cooked... Its how the mollecuels in a microwave does weird things to the food when it is cooking, while being baked heats up the food...
And then normaly there's more care to the potato when it is being cooked in the oven...
2006-07-17 08:33:08 · answer #3 · answered by Rob D 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I microwave my jacket potatoes and they are really good. The inside is fluffy and the outside is really crispy. The secret is to get a good microwave oven. Panosonic Turbo Bake, perfect in 8 mins.
2006-07-19 04:54:58 · answer #4 · answered by smilley 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Microwaves cook from the inside out... so you're actually over cooking the inside of the potato in the micro. In the oven however, you're cooking from the outside in, so it stays nice and moist and perfectly cooked inside, while the skin gets wonderfully crispy on the outside... mmm... yumm... I think i'm gonna scrub up a tater for myself too... :-p
2006-07-17 09:04:10 · answer #5 · answered by rocknrobin21 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
itgets alot hotter in an oven and so it takes some of the moisture in the potato out of and and makes it a bit more...b\well better i guess and in the microwave al the water stays in there and just collects on the potato where in the oven it evaporates
2006-07-17 08:33:50 · answer #6 · answered by shrpeezrawk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
IMO, a nuked potato tastes better.
Be aware that many restaurants who serve a lot of BP's wrap them in foil adn BOIL them in water first, water than contains salt and sugar, then they toss them in the oven a few minutes to dry the skins/foil out. That is NOT a baked potato!
2006-07-17 08:35:45 · answer #7 · answered by Sugar Pie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For an oven it takes longer. It's "slow cooked" so it tastes better. A microwave is there for speed, not necessarily taste.
2006-07-17 08:34:09 · answer #8 · answered by Gracie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The microwaves turn the potatoes into mutant vegetables and cause the flavour gene to dissipate. Never trust a microwave or the mongo who tries to sell you one!
2006-07-17 23:41:59 · answer #9 · answered by Liberator Sieg 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the microwave it stays moister and also the skin doesn't crisp up nicely like it does in the oven.
2006-07-17 08:39:42 · answer #10 · answered by btmduk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋