'Cooking your potatoes in the microwave can take as little as five minutes, making it a great way to save time in the kitchen,' says Thea Whyte, small appliances expert at AO.com (opens in new tab). Or simply have it as your carb option with a salad and grilled meats off your barbecue. You can have your fave ingredients delivered to your door with Amazon Fresh (opens in new tab). You name it: sour cream (opens in new tab) and chives (opens in new tab), coleslaw (opens in new tab) and grated cheese (opens in new tab), a slow cooker chili, or just lashings of butter, salt, and pepper. (Image credit: Getty / Brian Hagiwara (#86057158)) Toppings for a microwaved potato a tea towel or oven glove may help to stop you from scalding your hands. If you are making potatoes for the whole family, you may choose to pop these on a baking tray (opens in new tab) so you don't have to take them out one at a time. Then simply pop the microwaved potato into the hot oven for five to ten minutes to crisp up the skin. Put the microwaved potato in the oven for ten minutesīetter still? While the microwave is cooking your potato, turn your best oven on high.
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This will help the skin be more flavorsome. Second, once you've poked yours with a fork, rub it over with olive oil (opens in new tab), then sprinkle on some table salt (opens in new tab) and black pepper (opens in new tab). First, ensure you don't overcook them because they do dry out pretty quickly.
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How to improve flavor when microwaving a potatoĮven if you're a not huge fan of microwaved potatoes, you can up their flavor really easily. If you're going to cook your single potato for five minutes, reckon on needing eight minutes for two, then perhaps an extra minute. In theory, cooking two potatoes should take twice as long, but be careful. In an ideal world, you should microwave potatoes that are roughly the same size. (Image credit: Getty / Andrew Gardner (1227223189)) Microwaving more than one potato at a time You wouldn't believe how many people ask us if you can put tin foil in the microwave – and the answer is no. Pop it on a microwave-proof dish (opens in new tab) (something from your best dinnerware set should do) and set the timer and the power to full.Īluminum foil is something you should never put in the microwave, so don't be tempted to wrap your potato in tin foil before attempting to nuke it. This won't only stop it from exploding in the oven because it helps the steam escape more easily through the skin, it should speed up cooking times, too. What else to know about microwaving a potatoįirst, it's important to make sure the potato's clean, so run it under a kitchen tap, give it a good rub and pat it dry with kitchen paper (opens in new tab) (buy in bulk on Amazon) or a clean tea towel (opens in new tab). Repeat until you're happy the potato is ready. How do you get it right? Start cautiously if you're not sure, check it and give it another minute. Think medium-sized potato, six minutes small potato: three to five minutes big potato, eight, nine, or 10 minutes. To start with, not all potatoes come out of the ground ready to be microwaved for seven minutes.
But you're not going to get the best results knowing that alone.
In short, the answer is around five to seven minutes. Your choice of toppings: pimp up your potato with Amazon Fresh (opens in new tab) Get your timings right An oven glove (opens in new tab) (optional)ġ2. A tea towel (opens in new tab) (optional)ġ1. A baking tray (opens in new tab) (optional): use if crisping up in the ovenġ0. Olive oil (optional): up the ante with this flavorsome addition (opens in new tab)ĩ. Table salt (optional): add a touch of seasoning (opens in new tab)Ħ. A microwave-proof plate: buy crockery from Amazon (opens in new tab)ĥ. Kitchen paper (opens in new tab) or a clean tea towel (opens in new tab)ģ. Potatoes: source spuds speedily from Amazon Fresh (opens in new tab)Ģ.
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