Default User wrote:
> Andy wrote:
>
>> Mr Libido Incognito said...
>>
>>> There is no recipe...The best Baked potatoes are made by
>>> washing/scrubbing the spuds well, drying them...rubbing the skin
>>> with a little oil and sprinkling them lightly with salt, forking
>>> them to allow for venting (no exploding potatoes that way) and
>>> baking for approx 1 hr at 400F plus.
>>
>> I just scrub the spuds, don't dry, don't oil, don't salt and don't
>> fork them. At 375 F. for 45 minutes.
>
> Heh. I never used to fork them, then one explodiated in the oven one
> time. Talk about a mess.

Not only do they need forking before baking to avoid exploding, my
mother insisted that we use our forks to open the potato up. She felt a
knife would compact the tender dry insides too much. We would make a
line of fork holes lengthwise, then crosswise and then squeeze the
potato open.