The Perfect Baked Potato

We love this recipe for baked potatoes! Sometimes I use the bacon grease instead of butter on the potato skin from the bacon made for the toppings.

The potato itself was cooked well when brushed with butter, but the idea that the skin would be super-tasty was not true at all -- it tasted like leather. The one thing that may have made a difference was that I do not cook with salt, as I have folks on no-salt diets in my house. The butter itself, brushed on the potato skin, was not enough to cook it well.

Crispy goodness of a baked potato!

Love the salt on the outside. Didn’t realize how much better it made it!

Super simple. We added toppings (cheese, sour cream, bacon bits, green onions) which really gave it a great flavor!

Serve with broccoli, cheese, bacon bits, sour cream

My husband loved this!!

Olive oil, garlic powder, course sea salt on the skin Once baked we added pepper, chives, cheese, sour cream, butter

Doused it liberally with sea salt and olive oil before putting it in the toaster oven Paid no attention to the stated cook time. Probed until it felt right. Superb crispy shell and just right potatoes.

I had to cook the potato longer than in this recipe but it was still yummy

Potato was still pretty hard after the cook time :(

The only way I can make good baked potatoes.

it was really good but the potatoes needed a bit more time overall really good!!

Super easy and turned out perfect

These are the techniques for the perfect baked potato.

I used various methods with the potatoes 🥔 I pierced with a fork on some and others I did an X shape I loved the X shape better.. Loved them the picture does not not do it justice!! 🤣

I used a paring knife versus a fork and poked the recommended 10 holes on each side of each potato. When I did this the potatoes were cooked through and ready to roll in 45 minutes :)

It took an extra maybe 20-25 mins before my potatoes were soft. Turned out delicious though, I have never eaten all the skin before but it was so tasty!