"Steve Pope" > wrote in message
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> Julie Bove > wrote:
>
>>I've done them in the slow cooker many times. In this house when I make a
>>pot roast, so much meat gets eaten, I need a separate pot to do the
>>potatoes
>>in. I do them on high for an hour or two and then turn it down to low. I
>>start them around breakfast time. They are done by dinner time. Not
>>mushy.
>>Works best with whole potatoes I think. Small ones.
>
> Interesting. If I boil potatoes, I cook them for seven minutes
> (after cutting them into about one-inch chunks), and they are
> always done. But if I'm baking a potato, I find it difficult
> to overcook them -- they can go for an hour or more, and at
> nearly any temperature.

I once managed to overcook baked potatoes. I put them in the oven and
forgot about them. I think they were in there for close to 2 hours. They
tasted okay but the skin was a tad tough.