How To Bake A Potato

By Leeanne Utiger
Learn how to bake a potato and impress your family and friends when you next cook a meal for them. Baking a potato is not that hard a thing to do or learn how to bake for that matter.

There are a couple of ways you can in fact learn how bake a potato. It is very common for a baked potato to be baked in the oven, however you can also bake a potato in an electric fry pan that has a lid you can place over the top of the pan while you bake a potato or any other vegetable.

It is also a very good idea to bake a potato in an oven dish or a covered fry pan after you have roasted a piece of meat or a chicken. The juices left from roasting a piece of meat helps add flavor to the potato you now want to bake.

First I will explain how to bake a potato in an oven dish in your oven. Let us pretend you have earlier roasted a piece of meat. Now that your meat is fully roasted, you can take that out of the oven dish and place it on a suitable plate to be placed in the warming draw of your oven if you have one. Make sure you have peeled all of the potato skin off the potato before you do anymore with the potato. Once you have peeled all of the skin off the potato, you can now slice the potato in half, preferably lengthwise. Now you that you have prepared the potato this way, you are now ready to bake your potato. Simply place the potato or potatoes, in to the oven dish that you used previously to roast your piece of meat in. Place the oven dish back into the oven and leave to bake. You will have to make sure that you have the oven temperature set at approximately 160 - 180 degrees Celsius. You should know how to turn your potato over so as not to splatter the juices that are in your oven dish everywhere. Often this is best done with the use of two forks, or by using a pair of kitchen tongs. Either method is suitable. Leave the potato to bake for approximately 20 - 30 minutes and then turn the potato over so you can now bake the other side of the potato as brown as the first side. Leave this side of the potato to bake for a period of 20 - 30 minutes also. Once this time period is up, check your potato by placing the sharp point of a knife into one. If the potato feels soft enough to eat, then the potato has finished baking and is ready to be served on to a dinner plate for eating. Make sure you remember to turn your oven off.

Now for the other way to bake a potato. There is really not a lot of change in knowing how to bake a potato when you bake it this way. The main difference is that you are using a fry pan with a lid to bake your potato in, as opposed to an oven dish in the oven. Once again, use a fry pan that you have previously roasted a piece of meat in. Peel and slice your potato in half the same as you would, if you were going to bake your potato in the oven. Place the potato in the fry pan and cover with the fry pan lid. Bake your potato this way for approximately 20 minutes, making sure you have the temperature just over mid temperature. At the end of 20 minutes, turn the potato over so the other side can bake. You can if so choose, sprinkle some seasoning or garlic salt, maybe some dry basil over the potato prior to placing it in the fry pan to bake. Once both sides of the potato have finished baking and the potato is cooked, you can serve it up on your dinner plate. Do not forget to turn of your electric fry pan.

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