Thanks for watching everyone! It's a pleasure to make this show and an even greater pleasure to read your commentary.

@Sbannmarie

6 ай бұрын

We love your work. 😊

@ryanjaeger4173

6 ай бұрын

Great job! What is the temp, time and location for oil brushed finish? Thanks

@tracey4180

6 ай бұрын

your spots are so fun!

@oldcowbb

6 ай бұрын

who needs a recipe for a baked potato?

@morrismonet3554

6 ай бұрын

@@oldcowbb Millennials.🤣🤣

Back in the day (sixty years ago) my mother had metal skewers that were designed to stick into a raw potato before baking. It supposedly accomplished two goals: gave the steam a path out in order to prevent explosions, and gave heat a conduit into the center of the potato to help it cook more evenly. I would love for ATK to address the baked potato skewer controversy. Keep up the delicious science, food nerds!

Dan, I did have potatoes blow up! I had started baking the potatoes at 400 and then realized that hubby was working late and dinner was going to be later than I'd planned so I decided to turn the oven down and just let everything bake longer. However when I turned the oven down, I accidentally turned the oven completely off. When I realized what I'd done, about an hour or so later, I just turned the oven back on, thinking, "oh well, it's just potatoes, right? they'll be ok". But the steam holes had sealed up while cooling and when the potatoes heated back up.... BOOM! they exploded. And yes, they did make a boom noise. And yes, it was a mess to clean up. However, lots of the potato was salvageable and was not half bad, lol.

@jong2359

6 ай бұрын

Can confirm a pop, or boom noise when one goes off with a nice mess to clean up afterwords.

@adedow1333

6 ай бұрын

That's really cool!

@wsmithjr74

6 ай бұрын

I blew one up last week. It was my first time ever. I will prick them from now on, it was quite the mess (and boom).

@jdhd2837

6 ай бұрын

I remember eating a blown potato as a kid - it tasted AMAZING.

@deatheragefarms

6 ай бұрын

I've had two blow up in my parents' oven within the last couple years. I'd always believed the exploding tater to be a myth. I bake 425f if it matters.

BAKED POTATO RECIPE Ingredients: Russet Potatoes - 4, ≈7-9oz each Salt - 2 tbsp Water - 1/2 Cup Vegetable Oil - 1 tbsp Method: - Preheat Oven to 450º, with oven rack in center. - Clean exterior of potatoes. Dry. - Poke holes throughout potatoes’ skins with a fork. - Dissolve the salt in the water, and lightly coat all sides of potatoes’ skins. - Bake the potatoes directly on center oven rack for ≈ 45-60 minutes, or until center registers 205ºF. - Remove potatoes from the oven and brush them all over with a thin coat of the vegetable oil. - Bake for an additional 10 minutes. - Take potatoes out of the oven, cut slits through the skins, and push sides of potatoes to open them up and let them steam. - Season insides and top with desired fillings.

@NatPix

6 ай бұрын

Thank you for your service!

@GrainneDhub-ll6vw

6 ай бұрын

Thank you--so convenient!

@joannaedwards6325

4 ай бұрын

Thanks. I will definitely use your method next time.

@Vera-kh8zj

2 ай бұрын

thank you

@dirtyketchup

2 ай бұрын

@@Vera-kh8zj 😋

4:48 For anyone popping over from Elle’s demo video, it’s another 10 minutes in the oven after oiling (though the previous oven temp was set at 450F).

@dadisalone1492

6 ай бұрын

Thank you for letting us know. It's not like Dan to forget to include this kind of detail.

@mhelen7360

6 ай бұрын

Thanks. I was just about to ask that question.

@samanthagarner2926

6 ай бұрын

thank you for this!

@alleycatvietnam

5 ай бұрын

Thank you very much.....I had the same question. Cheers from San Francisco.

@PatrickMobileHomes

4 ай бұрын

i was wondering

Dan videos are never to be missed.

Idahoan here! "Potato Curious" has to be my favorite phrase EVER. I went into this video chanting, "do a good job do a good job do a good job", like that guy on Armageddon. You did not disappoint! The exploding potato (in my experience) has to do with the growth of the potato.Those of us who live here have more explosions than the rest of the world because we send all the beautiful potatoes out. We keep the tiny ugly 'tatoes for home. Look up "black heart" potatoes. In my experience, growing up in East Idaho, there is a shortish growing season. The farmers have to roll the dice with early planting. If there is a late freeze as the potatoes start growing, the young potatoes protect themselves by conservation. A small hole surrounded by potato skin forms inside the potato. Like an inside-out potato. If this small inverted potato pocket heats up in an oven, it expands quickly as the air heats faster than surrounding tissue. If the surface tension isn't broken and the black heart expands before the starch dries out, the skin will break. It is LOUD. ESPECIALLY in the microwave (college girls need their spuds, too). My experience is that by poking the skins, you ensure that the rest of the potato can vent pressure as it cooks, thereby alleviating the possibility of an explosion. The only other time this happened to me without a black heart, in the middle, I found (what I assumed) the beginnings of one, a very dense concentration of white starchy tissue (like a sugar pocket). It is always surprising to find out that people don't know how much sugar is in potatoes. This is potentially napalm! (Ok, I exaggerated but you get it right?) I hope this helps! Every Idaho native has had at least one potato explode over a lifetime. This happens as a right of passage for those who learned from their Mama's to break the surface, and didn't listen, & those who didn't have a mama/dad to tell them differently. I hope you read this because I think I'm hilarious, and I hope that there is some way to test this.

Dan I’m 70 years young and have cook many baked potatoes. Only once did a potato explode in my oven. I always scrub the skins vigorously, never poke holes in them, always use russets, bake for one hour, temperature of 425 to 450 depending on the size of the potato. We eat them right away and the skins are crispy and the potatoes are fluffy. I will try your salt water trick, looks like a good idea.

who needs a recipe to Baked Potato?? I do!! your videos are the best

I think what I love the most is your recipe for ‘expressing passionately, the freedom to be goofy and nerdy.” Everyone one of these episodes you reveal your recipe, by being yourself, the goofy and nerdy Dan, boldly and out loud, and thus you inadvertently grant permission for us all to be free and express our own goofy and nerdy selves, too. What a liberation! Je t’adore! ❤️👍🏼

@Maggie4Veritas

6 ай бұрын

Moi aussi!

I’ll watch anything Dan posts, even if it’s just a baked potato 😉 I’m a huge fan! Love the science, and the humor! I’ve been baking potatoes for 48 years and my first explosion was at about 45 years, followed by a secondary couple years later. Both red potatoes, baking at 350 degrees 😅 I like them because they are more moist and we love the potato skins! After the two explosions, know prick them. I will try the brine next time!

Not once in forty years have I ever had a baked potato explode in my oven. Thank you for the informative post!

I saw this recipe years ago on ATK with Elle Simone and I've been using it ever since. It really is as awesome as Dan says it is.

@op3129

6 ай бұрын

atk now reposts recipes multiple MULTIPLE times. and yeah, the potato is as awesome as Dan says it is. from atk multiple: drop biscuits posted (with different "hosts" ... whatever you want to call them) four different times over seven years. lemon/olive oil pie, three times. frozen yogurt, three times. it's what they do now. considering recipes are team effort anyway, not sure any one person was the "inventor" of any of it. go team!

@reuelwarkov1418

6 ай бұрын

Great recipe, my go-to, I spray the potato with duck fat for the final bake...

@ibechane

5 ай бұрын

@@reuelwarkov1418 With all due respect to Elle for her presentation of the recipe in the older video, Lan published the original recipe in 2015. If anything, they are choosing to acknowledge the credit that she didn't receive in the older video. That's not to say they couldn't have given Elle a shoutout, but that's why they were especially mentioning Lan.

Hey Dan, I've had a potato explode. I'm 52 and in those 52 years, I never had a potato explode until a few months ago. It was such a unique experience, I took pictures of it to share. Anyways, I was baking the russets at about 400f when about 30 min into the cook, it detonated. Generally, I wash, dry, and coat the outside with oil then season. That's about as much of the details that I can recall.

that salt water wash makes so much sense and is such a good idea

@DanielJSouza

6 ай бұрын

Lan is SO smart.

Dan! you promised to read each comment! I'm an avid home cook and your videos along with Lan's have taught me so much and helped me take my skills to the next level. I just wanted to say THANK YOU!

@DanielJSouza

6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

I've used this ATK recipe and can indeed confirm that it makes the world's best baked potatoes. Thank you Dan (and Lan) for all your work, which has over the years turned me into a shameless ATK fanboy and a nerdy, confident home cook. Keep it up!

I absolutely needed a recipe for a baked potato. I knew pieces of the equation, but not all of it... or even most of it. Thanks for the details to connect the pieces.

I saw Elle teach Bridget about this and have been making them this way ever since! AMAZING! Husband now loves my baked potatoes. Thank you Elle and Dan! ♥️

I always microwave my potatoes (wrapped in wet paper towel) for 4-5 mins before popping them into the oven. This shortens the cooking time by at least 20-30 mins. Try it!

@C2C.

6 ай бұрын

It's ATK...they've tried it.

@GrainneDhub-ll6vw

6 ай бұрын

I've tried it. If you don't mind kinda wet, gummy baked potatoes, why not? It might work better if you're planning to make twice baked potatoes where there's so much extra extra that the original texture of the baked potato is pretty much lost.

@ahhhlindsanityyy

Ай бұрын

I do this too!

My mother's side of the family are from Aroostook County, Maine. My mother grew up picking potatoes in the late summer. Maine also has a candy made from potatoes called the Needham or potato candy. It's very sweet we used to make them for gifts at Christmas. I've never had a potato explode in the oven. I usually spritz my baked potato with EVOO and sprinkle with both salt and pepper. I scoop out the guts and put the skins, with grated cheddar cheese, back in the oven. I love the skins as much or more than the potato guts / innards.

@daveh7720

6 ай бұрын

I'm from the Midwest where potato candy is a favorite. I usually took some to holiday potlucks at work, but I wouldn't tell anybody what it was unless they tasted it first. Afterwards I'd have a few people ask for the recipe. The first time I mentioned "potato candy" to someone who hadn't tasted it, their expression told me they were thinking of something like chocolate covered French fries.

@DanielJSouza

6 ай бұрын

My mom's side is from western Maine! Great potatoes up there.

Yes, in over 50 years of cooking and I have had one baked potato blow up in the oven probably 40 to 45 minutes at 400° and 45 minutes to an hour cleaning the oven. It went everywhere and it burned.

@DanielJSouza

6 ай бұрын

Thankfully a pretty low explosion rate.

@khodascope

6 ай бұрын

@@DanielJSouza Very low, but something you still never want to happen

Dan, I'd just like to thank you for posting the videos. They always make me laugh. Regardless of the recipe, the more, the merrier. Baked potatoes or fancy dishes, keep 'em coming! Writing to let you know you have a fan in Brazil 🇧🇷. Obrigado!

"Who needs a recipe for a baked potato?" I know people who can't boil water without burning it and who have their mind blown from the simple act of popping popcorn on the stovetop without any fancy tools or gadgets. There are plenty of people who could use a recipe to make a good baked potato.

Thank you. Valuable information. I have been cooking and baking for a bit less than 60 years, and using an instant read makes sense. Never too old to learn something new

@lind774

6 ай бұрын

Yep soon to be 65 and still learning!

I do my potatoes slightly different. I have a potato bag and I put them in the microwave in the potato bag after they’ve been washed for probably 7 to 10 minutes depending on the size and how many then I take them out. I prick them with a fork them with grapeseed oil, salt pepper Maybe some Jay’s crazy mixed up salt then I put them in my air fryer at 375 for 10 minutes and then bump it up to 400° for the last four or five. My wife gets excited when I say I’m making baked potatoes she loves them, and that’s all counts at my house

@jvallas

6 ай бұрын

I've only gone so far as the microwave bag. I like your extra steps.

@jvallas

6 ай бұрын

Wait! You nuke them 7 - 10 min.? I only do 4. Is this because you do a bunch at once?

@tomspiers1658

6 ай бұрын

@@jvallas yes I fill the bag 5+

After I saw Ella's video of about four years ago I started using her method. It's the best way. This video is a restatement of that video. The method deserves to be more widely known, so thanks for repeating it.

A baked potato variant that you can get in Central Texas. Take a baked potato that was cooked on the bbq fire so that it has a hint of smoked flavor. Cut it open. Add a bit of butter, a bit of cheese, and a heaping portion of BBQ chopped beef. It’s a meal in one. Doesn’t get any better.

@DanielJSouza

6 ай бұрын

wow, sounds excellent.

@morrismonet3554

6 ай бұрын

My father grew up in the 30's and 40's, and he and his friends would build a fire on the ground, let it burn down to coals, and then bury potatoes in there. He called them Roasted Mickeys.

I worked in a restaurant that specialised in baked potatoes with various fillings. I cooked off at leat 100 a day. Explosions were common. In fact it was the best way of judging whether a batch was done. You'd hear one go off and know they were ready to be transferred into the warmer. Side note: The exploded potato flesh is DELICIOUS!

@DanielJSouza

6 ай бұрын

Haha, that's quite the timer.

Mom had a potato explode, but it wasn't in the oven. She had put some in a pot to boil and forgot about them. The pot boiled dry and one of the spuds popped. I was just a kid then so I'm not sure what kind of potato it was, but Mom was pretty frugal so it was probably something cheap like a white potato. (This was in the 1960s.)

@DanielJSouza

6 ай бұрын

I did something similar years ago!

@grahammcfadyenhill9555

6 ай бұрын

My Mom did that frequently, I blame the mickey of Scotch she always had going, and I will never forget the smell of potatoes burned dry in the pot.

So, yep I've had a potato explode in my oven! My brand new, first time ever used, oven! A bit of shock when hearing the explosion and a bit of a mess cleaning it up! I love a recipe for a baked potato!

@MARIASIEGEL-oc4qp

6 ай бұрын

I remember it happening as a kid and it was a mess. Been hitting them with a fork ever since.

Love your videos. I enjoy your comedic take on what to and not to do.

Dan is the man as always.

😂 I have had potatoes explode. They were not huge size, un-pricked, russets, oven at 425 degrees, placed directly on oven rack. I heard a noise around 45 mins, and found such a mess. I have been using foil ever since. I will try this method. Thanks! Love this channel!

@jong2359

6 ай бұрын

Nearly identical conditions for my exploder. Mine popped the second i touched it to remove it though.

@5610winston

6 ай бұрын

Oh, sweet Blessed Bridget of Kildare! Please tell me you don't wrap your spuds in foil before baking! They don't bake, they steam!

Happy New Year! It’s so nice to tune in to the series again. Here’s to more culinary chaos and adventures.

Who needs a recipe for a baked potato?! I DO, I DO!!!! I was just think about how I'm struggling to make it dry and fluffy. It tends to be kind of solid. Thanks Dan!!!!

I need a recipe for a baked potato because omfg there’s so many options for potatos and then there’s trying to get those perfect crispy skins.

How about hassellbacks? I cook an extra one and use the leftover as the basis for corned beef hash the next morning. Carmelize a diced onion, toss in the chopped potato and some deli-sliced corned beef, a bit of rosemary and thyme, toss and sautee until nicely carmelize, serve topped with a poached egg....

As a baked potato lover, I turn mine into a meal. I top mine with butter and sour cream, follow with sautéed mushrooms and onions, and top with tiny steamed broccoli florets. On occasion, I add a little cheese sauce. Heavenly!

Though it's rare, I've had a few explode over the years, in the oven at 450F, and the other in the (gasp) microwave. Common factors: still cold from the fridge and not pricked. It should be noted that internal tater temp decreases with altitude. I'm a mile (1600 m) up and it's rare to get a baked spud over 200F (water boiling temp is about 203F), so anything higher than 198F for a few minutes is about as good as it'll get.

@tomsparks6099

6 ай бұрын

Surpised to hear you refrigerate your potatoes.

@DanielJSouza

6 ай бұрын

Great point! Thanks for sharing.

@terpcj

6 ай бұрын

@@tomsparks6099I'd rather not, but it's the only cool dark place I can spare. No root cellar. No extra drawer to fill with dirt. It's not optimal, but it does OK.

I DID!!!!!!! Thank you I love all that you do and is so easy to learn from you.

One thing I'd like to see is a temperature over time graph. I think they hang around at 205-210 degrees for a while because that's when the water is evaporting.

I can pretty reliably get a potato to explode in the microwave, but I don't know if that counts! My seven year-old and I love watching "What's Eating Dan" together - he is also a big fan, and you are helping him to consider trying some new foods. Thank you!

I've used this recipe many times. Perfect baked potatoes every time!

Very nice. Love your scientific approach!

Wowww. Going to do this right now. Thanks, Dan!

Air fryer - 25-35 minutes @ 400 degrees depending on size to an internal temp of 200-210 (basically what is said here) misted with high temp oil and sprinkled with salt from the start. is my go to recipe for what I consider a perfect baked potato. I also cut as soon as done. Oh! I almost forgot...I do poke with a fork before cooking.

I guess I really needed this. Thanks. 😊

I've been cooking for over 50 years and became unconvinced that the "exploding potato" myth is actually true. I quit piercing potatoes (russet or sweet potato) about 30 years ago. I've never had one to explode. Thanks for the tips on temp, when to slice, and brining for salty skin. Oh, and basting.

you are so fun to listen to! thanks for the info

Yes! This is a great way to bake potatoes. I use this method all the time. Thanks ATK!

Never considered using my instant read thermometer. But I do brine the skins after seeing a video Test Kitchen did a few years ago. Now I have to try that feta topping. Sounds wonderful!

Great video. Thanks for the advice.

One time in college I felt like having a baked potato, so I put a spud in the oven. At some point I forgot about the little tuber and went to class. I came back many hours later, remembered what I had done, and took the tater out. It was now more like a French fry than a baked potato. With a little ketchup, it was pretty good. 🥔

@rcjbvermilion

6 ай бұрын

It's only a culinary disaster if you can't fix it with ketchup. :P

@joannaedwards6325

4 ай бұрын

​@@rcjbvermilion Thanks for the chuckle. 😊

Great video...Love these shorts!

My fam always wrapped the potatoes in foil, and my mom puts a potato spike in before wrapping with foil. I'd love to hear yours and Lan's thoughts on this technique.

Who needs a recipe for a baked potato? Oh! Thanks for all the great tips!

I needed one having never made one and I knew if ANYONE could make the best.... it would be you Dan... With that, I say THANK YOU !

I have only once had a potato explode while baking. It happened about 6 weeks ago. I failed to poke the potatoes. I had microwaved them about 3 minutes to shorten the baking time. They were baked at 425. There was a fairly loud "pop." They had been in the oven close to 30 minutes. Only one exploded; it did not have the black center mentioned in other comments. To clean up, I used a spoon to scoop some of the residue out of the oven immediately. I finished baking the other potatoes, let the oven cool and then used the hose attachment on the vacuum to get most of the rest of the residue. What remained was easily scrubbed off with a regular kitchen / dish "scrubbie."

Necessity is the mother of invention. I was out of potato fixings one time so I put olive oil (not butter), capers, and blue cheese on my spud and was so happy with the results that I do that most of the time now. I always have those on hand and not necessarily "regular potato fixings".

Wow! I loved this vid! Good job!

I’ve been “brining” my baked potatoes for a while now. Not sure where I learned it from. Either guys or Chef John! I am going to do the oil after baking trick now. Thanks a ton for the great videos!

This recipe turned out really well for me. Thanks!

I was just wondering about this yesterday and hadn't had time to Google it. Thanks, Dan, for reading my mind and responding.❤

@LaurenBradburyFarm

6 ай бұрын

Answer: 205° F

@DanielJSouza

6 ай бұрын

We are always reading your mind 😵‍💫. JK!

5:08 This is awesome 👏🏽

I have been using this baked potato method for years and it works great. Also that goat cheese topping is fantastic.

I have only seen two times where potatoes exploded, but the first one was very memorable. Back story--my mom did not really like lamb, but lamb was a traditional Easter main course. Mom had several bad experiences with lamb (stopped up sink, once the element in the oven literally broke while cooking the lamb) and so on. But l will never forget the Easter when all four potatoes exploded. My mom was in her fifties at the time, and she had never seen any potatoes explode, much less four out of four. That was the last time she cooked lamb, and we switched to ham on Easter. I haven't had lamb for over thirty years now, because lamb also wasn't my favorite, and it's usually expensive.

@user-bw7oy7vy2t

5 ай бұрын

Lessons learned!!!

I got one of those instant read thermometers recently and wish I had got it 20 years ago it’s a ThermPro. Now to try it on some baked potatoes!

@jong2359

6 ай бұрын

My old man will not believe me how much it changes your ability to cook, but I guess that's old people for you. He still swears his crappy chinese +-6º @ 10 seconds is "really fast."

@rksg2003

6 ай бұрын

@@jong2359 My dad is the same way he still Has a flip phone..

I definitely needed a recipe for a baked potato since I’ve never had one this good!

You make me smile…and that’s a good thing!!😊

The salt solution… pure genius! Love all your videos Dan! Love Lan’s videos too!

been making this recipe for years now! one tip ill add is that after adding the oil, i crank my (non-convenction) oven to 475f. idk if the temp really matters but i find that last blast of heat really crisps up the skins to a nice chip/cracker texture. when i ran the oil stage at only 450f sometimes the burner wouldnt click on & the ambient temperature wasnt enough to crisp the skin enough so the oil kinda soaked a bit. some sections were crispy others were chewy. thnx lan, elle, & dan for this great recipe!! never going back lol

I remember my grandma saying it happened to her once when she forgot to prick them with a fork. If I remember correctly, her recipe is 350 for an hour-ish.

PERFECTION!!

Glad you encourage using a thermopen, something I've been doing with baked tatties for years. I'll sometimes jazz up the humble baked spud by halving them once baked, then scooping out the insides. I then use the inner in a sort of choux/dauphine mixture (you can add flavourings at this point) which I pipe back into the newly oiled skins & re-bake. This way you get the crispiest skin & light, airy yet a rich inner. Well worth the extra effort in my opinion. I did know a chap who worked in a baked potato shop a couple of decades ago. They occasionally had tatties go bang/pop. Not only did they oil the skins before baking which kept moisture in so it could build up, but the potatoes they used were a type of russet which were grown for them that had really thick skins. So the combination may explain the pressure build up. 🥔 I think my favourite filling for normal baked tatties is a half & half of mac & cheese with haggis. Really good, my partner says hers would have to be prawn marie rose. Though being from the UK we also like the traditional baked beans with cheese & Worcestershire sauce.

Dan, you’re the best!! Entertaining and so much good info!! Thank you!! Btw, I do an old Alton trick where I nuke them first (6 minutes) and then into a hot oven 10-15 minutes) when I don’t want to wait an hour. Not a bad hack.

YES! I definitely want recipes for platonic potatoes! Love dan

I used to go to a steak place "Courtepaille" that had the best unlimited baked potatoes. At home, mine often suffer from hard centers. I'll have to try this recipe with the thermometer. Thanks, Dan and Lan! Also, I have never had an exploding potato.

@SmallSpoonBrigade

6 ай бұрын

I haven't tried it with regular potatoes, but with sweet potatoes you can freeze them for a few hours before baking them at 450F for about 90 minutes and you should have no issues with a hard center. The outside winds up nice and caramelized.

This video is a great example of why I love this channel (and Dan's presentations)! Nobody does it better! Now on to my potatoes...

Amazing, Dan's videos are always so interesting 🤓

Have done these steps and the spuds turn out perfecto every time. BTW: 10" in oven for the oiled portion.

I have to say, I've been cooking at home and professionally for over 40 years and I never gave this much thought to baked potatoes 😄 I always oil and roll in roasted garlic powder, salt, pepper. I'll try this. Btw, my hubby's favorite is to mix dry ranch seasoning with sour cream for topping. Top with some green onions. Very good.

@DanielJSouza

6 ай бұрын

Great topping idea!

I have had a potato explode in the oven, a small "new potato" usually used in potato salads. From memory, it was 1.5" in diameter, likely a 400 F oven, and I was cooking more than 20 potatoes at the same time. One of the potatoes of the 20 exploded.

Love this video! I’ve been fine with salt and oil (and piercing it) and cook it till done, then wrap in foil for prep. Whenever everything else in oven is done, the potatoes are always awesome. A baked potato is heaven thanks for this!

dan - thank you for this. i can't wait to try it. my family has a way to bake potatoes that everybody loves, but i find wanting. Covering them in foil and butter and onions sounds great, but it comes out gloppy. I will try this. I never would have imagined a salt bath

I take another step further by making twice baked potatoes. I make a large batch and freeze them, wrapped individually. It takes about 5 minutes in the microwave to go from frozen to table ready. As a single living alone, this is a great solution. In fact the bigger ones is enough to qualify as a meal❤

@ArtU4All

6 ай бұрын

😄 for a second, I read your comment wrong. However, I will ask my question: have you ever tried to cook a potato that was frozen raw and then cooked? ……

@user-bw7oy7vy2t

5 ай бұрын

Have you??????

I had already planned to have baked potatoes for dinner, perfect timing!

I have only had 1 potato explode in the oven in my entire life. It was an un-punctured russet at 425ºF for 1 hour in a non-convection oven. It did not explode until it was touched to remove it, at which point it blew out from the bottom of the potato - forcefully (for a potato) expelling most of the "guts" onto the lower heating coil/open door. My wife, an observer of the event, will NOT put a potato in the oven without punctures now.

Thank you, Dan! ❤❤❤

Been doing them this way since 2019 ATK did it the first time, super!

@sandrah7512

6 ай бұрын

Lan's recipe's a few years older than that, first appearing in the Jan/Feb 2016 issue of Cook's Illustrated magazine (so, developed in 2015) then on a Season 17 episode of ATK TV on PBS (S24 debuted Jan 6, 2024) which first aired January 21, 2017. Eventually it found its way here to YT (and other streaming platforms). 🙂

Yes, I too have had a russet potato explode while baking in the oven. Just one potato, in a lifetime of baking potatoes. However, I usually prick them. I usually bake them at either 350 or 400. The explosion didn't hurt anyone and since it happened when I wasn't in the kitchen, the bits of the exploded potato browned in the oven and were tasty. Thank you, Lan for the recipe perfecting.

I remember the first time I saw this recipe on ATK. It's never failed me, perfect potato every time!

Thanks, you are awesome,Dan!❤

Thanks for the video, I plan to try it all out! I’ve had potatoes explode both in the oven and microwave, only once in each instance but made enough of a mess to ensure the skins were well pricked 😅

I've been getting some spectacular results using an air fryer. Used the poke and soak in brine method, Air Fryer @ 400, Combustion Inc. wireless probe, app set to 205 degrees, seems like 40 min is the average time. Spray with oil for the last 8 min or so. Crispy skin perfection!

I have had more than one baked potato explode in my oven!! Only ever one at a time, though, and I can't remember any factors that would have caused it, except of course, that I didn't puncture them. I normally bake them at 375 F for 45 minutes. I also was very pleased to see the temperature you recommend, as I have been telling my sister, who eats more potatoes than I do, that her potato will be ready when it has an instant read internal temperature of 207F. I was pretty close! Love your videos, and Lan's too!

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Thanks for the potato exploding note!

Love the video, thank you very much. As a baked potato enjoyer, I've made quite a few. I have been using the same 1960's electric oven with broken clock and timer since late 2007 and I have only had 3 incidents. The first was a local grown russet, fairly large (larger than a dollar bill) it was when I first moved in and why I started poking holes in any potato I bake or grill. It was loud, kind of a low thud that rattled the rack inside the oven but it split more than exploded leaving a steak of potato across the top heating element (still edible). The second was the worst by far, it was a store bought russet (I think it was Walmart but not sure) smaller in size, maybe a little smaller than a pop can. I was outside when it exploded but I still could hear it. I had put it directly on a pizza stone that I had been leaving in the oven as it seemed to help when cooking other things (not sure if it did much other than for the store bought biscuits but all I had to do was pre heat and toss them in and the biscuits came out perfect so the stone stayed) regardless when I came in to check it had begun to smoke. There were no large chunks left, it had distributed itself pretty evenly on all things above the stone's surface including the upper heating element. The last one was I think about 6 years ago, we were doing a wine tasting so I don't remember as much but I remember it was loud but not as loud as the other two. I was trying something that was suggested, made a 1:1 water and salt solution and left them overnight, the next day I put them on an oiled baking sheet. We heard a thud from the kitchen and went to investigate (wine in hand). This time there was nearly no "spray", when I opened the door the potato was in two halves on the baking sheet kind of rocking back and forth. The first and second made it, at least in part to the table. The second was a total loss and a long night of cleaning.

Those multi lead oven thermometers, the ones of 6 leads coming off I'll use one for the meat & the others used for the baked potatoes, with the alarm temp set to 200 to give me time to make room, get out plates, etc. The stuff I should have done an hour ago. And if you do coat them with oil to fry the skin add more flaky salt. Silicon kitchen oven gloves are very useful when handling hot potatoes, or even better if you're boiling corn on the cob you can just pull the ears of corn straight out of the boiling water with your gloved hands just make sure not to put the gloved hands in the water deep enough to fill the glove with boiling hot water. And yes there is a perfect temp range for corn on the cob, google it, but off the top of my head I think it is also 205, but could be wrong.

This isn't a recipe but a technique guide, which is much better. Thanks Dan!

Ok, Dan….I have a quick question. You said that oiling the potatoes after you take them out of the oven helps the skin to become perfectly crispy, like a chicken getting oiled and given a last blast of heat, but you never said to actually put them back in the oven after oiling or for how much longer. I’m a little confused. Can you clarify please?