Idiots Guide to Baking a Potato

I like the walk-thru — a few years back Carolyn and I wanted to perfect the baked potato and this guide would have been super helpful. It also likely generates some decent Google AdSense dollars for the owner.

So you want to know the best way to bake a potato? Golden, crispy brown skins and soft, tasty potato-goodness inside? It’s quite simple and easy to do, and if you follow along with me I will show you how to do it every step of the way.

Its a pretty long and well done walk-thru. I’d never heard of the olive oil and salt method and can believe the skin will be delicious; I plan to use some white truffle olive oil. Generally, I clean the potato, pre-heat my oven to 400deg CONVECTION BAKE, punch a few holes with a fork and knock an aluminum nail length-wise into the potato. Convection gets me crispy skin and fluffy perfect potato meat.