Roasted jacket potato in oven?

Question

What is the best way to roast a jacket potato? I have heard some people to say wrap it in foil.. and some say just roast it in goose fat with no foil?? any tips to a great baked potato?

Answer 1

score it, rub in some olive oil then sprinkle with salt and wrap in foil, gorgeous

Answer 2

Perfect Baked Potato
Submitted by: CURLEEGIRLEE
"This baked potato has a crisp, golden skin, and is light and fluffy on the inside. Great comfort food!"
Original recipe yield: 1 serving.
Prep Time:1 MinuteCook Time:1 Hour 30 MinutesReady In:1 Hour 31 MinutesServings:1 (change)

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INGREDIENTS:
1 medium baking potato
1 teaspoon olive oil
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons butter
1 pinch freshly ground black pepper
1/4 cup shredded Cheddar cheese

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DIRECTIONS:
Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Scrub the potato, and pierce the skin several times with a knife or fork. Rub the skin with olive oil, then with salt.
Place the potato in the preheated oven, and bake for 90 minutes, or until slightly soft and golden brown. Slice the potato down the center, and serve with butter and black pepper. Sprinkle shredded Cheddar cheese over the top, if desired.


Variation:

For a treat, try slicing the very top of the potato off rather than slicing it in two, forming a 'lid'. Scoop out the fluffy contents of the potato, keeping the skin intact. Mix the potato in a bowl with butter, grated cheese and black pepper, then spoon the mixture back into the skin. Replace the lid and serve.

Answer 3

Ooh, I have the most delicious jacket potato recipe EVER!
Courtesy of Paula Deen

4 medium-sized russet or other baking potatoes, well scrubbed
12 ounces bacon, chopped
8 ounces sliced button mushrooms
1/4 cup brandy
1 tablespoon green peppercorns, drenched in cold water
1 cup cream
Salt and pepper
Butter, for topping

Potato: Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Prick potatoes with a fork and bake until soft, about 1 hour.

Sauce: Saute bacon, add button mushrooms and cook until golden brown. Pour brandy first into a measuring cup (for safety) and then into the pan and carefully ignite with a long match. After the alcohol burns off and the flame has died, stir in the peppercorns. Stir in the cream and heat through, without boiling. Salt and pepper, to taste.

Cut open baked potatoes. Top each with a spoonful of butter, then cover generously with sauce.

Answer 4

It depends whether you like a crunchy skin or not. If you wrap the poato in foil the skin stays soft and pliable. If you keep the foil off the skin becomes crunchy (and in my humble opinon more tasty).

A great thing to do with a baked potato, though, is to make a "twice baked potato"


1 small yellow onion diced
olive oil
5 baking potatoes
3/4c milk
2tbsp. butter
1 tsp pepper
4oz(1/2 bag) kraft shredded cheddar cheese

Pre-heat oven to 350 place baking potatoes directly on oven rack and bake for 1hour 20minutes.
Meanwhile, cover the bottom of a skillet or frying pan with olive oil add onions to oil and sautee until tender (About 5 minutes) Remove onions from heat; drain excess oil. Add onions to medium mixing bowl.

When potatoes are done, take out of the oven and cut the top 1/4 off of each potato (the long way) Scoop potato out of the shell and into mixing bowl with the onions. Add milk, butter, and pepper to mixture. With mixer, combine ingredients until well blended. Add cheese and mix with spoon.

Place potato mixture into a medium sized plastic bag. Twist bag (bag should appear as a pastry bag) with scissors, clip the corner off the end of the bag. Squeeze the potato into each shell. place on cookie sheet and bake another 20 minutes, or until cheese is melted and light brown crust forms on top of potatoes.

Answer 5

I am a chef and people always remark on my baked potatoes. The secret is to put a skewer through the potato, this conducts heat to the centre which goes all fluffy and delicious with a large knob of butter. Forget that low fat, no taste, dyed to death margarine, it is rubbish. Did you know that it is grey until they dye it yellow?. You can rub oil on the skins with salt.
Roast potatoes are best in goose fat or lard, gets a higher temp than oil, par boil,toss in semolina. and into hot fat. crunchy way.

Answer 6

Roast means cooked in fat or oil. Jacket potatoes are baked dry. I usually score mine all the way round with a sharp knife so that as they cook, the halves seperate slightly. Then, when cooked it is easy to cut them in half, scrape out and mash the contents, mix with a little cheese and ham, re-fill and cover with more cheese then grill for a couple of minutes until the cheese is brown. A meal in itself or with just some sweetcorn. Alternatively, leave out the ham and they go great with pork chops.

Answer 7

Put it in foil, but what you need to do is wash the potato, while it is slightly damp rub a little olive oil, salt and pepper on it. Score the skin, wrap in foil and stick in the oven. Make sure to turn it regularly, and squeeze. When its soft, its done.

Answer 8

As someone who was cooking for an army of people (family of seven) since the age of ten... cooked for two more families including eight kids through growing years, you all made me smile.

Reasons:

Sling the spuds in the oven, never mind the ceremonies, put oven (gas) on number eight... leave for an hour... and you'll get nicely fluffy baked interior and super edible crusty skin!

Good heavens... is this really all you have time to worry about, playing with your food? I told mine off at table for doing that... it's just like spoiling kids.

And goose grease?

In my day it was used by the women folk to slap on children's chests... it stunk the place out, but it surely sorted chesty coughs and bronchial infections!

And while on about old remedies for kids... add to that, vinegar... rinse the hair after shampooing with neat vinegar for thirty seconds... it stings like hell, so rub in well and fast, then rinse immediately, it kills head lice stone dead! Shampoo again immediately afterwards... or people will try to buy fish and chips from you...

Smiling:-)

Gran

Answer 9

Prick it with a fork. Rub oil all over and then rub salt on. Put oven onto 200 degrees and bake for 40 min to an hour. Prick with fork again to test if it is ready. Bake for a further 15 min if needed.

Answer 10

goose fat...heartattack waiting to happen.

the best way to roast a potato is any way you like it. if you like it with goose fat (never heard of that) then that is the best way...

me...I have mine wrapped in tinfoil and cut open to reveal the white flesh and drizzle a bit of roasted garlic oil on the inside...bake for 15-20 mins. then top with chives, bacon and or sour cream if you so desire...

but that is just me.

Answer 11

I usually put them in the microwave for 5 minutes first then into the oven with no foil on them. Makes them nice and crispy , just the way I like them.