Rather than the traditional oven baked potatoes, try cooking them in your microwave. Your microwave can cook potatoes much faster, saving you time and energy. This is a guide about cooking a potato in the microwave.
Preparing baked potatoes in a microwave takes far less time than baking them in an oven, but sometimes the wonderful texture of an oven baked potato is missing. Take the following steps to give microwave potatoes an oven baked texture.
Once you remove the potatoes from the microwave, wrap them in aluminum foil. Place them inside of an oven mitt for about ten minutes. If you don't have an oven mitt, you can roll the foil wrapped potatoes in a towel. When you unwrap the potatoes they will have the soft, fluffy texture of oven baked potatoes.
This also works with sweet potatoes.
By VeronicaHB from Asheboro, NC
When I bake potatoes in the microwave, I coat them with Pam or other cooking spray. When they are done, they are easy to peel the skin off of or great to eat. I love to eat the whole potato so I do this all the time. It's much less messy than using oil.
By Cindy B. from Vaughan, MS
If you need your potato cooked more quickly, cut the potato in half or onto four pieces. Time of cooking depends on the potato, your microwave, and your appetite.
By Jose from Paine
Shared on: 08/30/2010
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