Mike's Perfect Baked Potatoes
Mike's Perfect Baked Potatoes

Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, mike's perfect baked potatoes. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

The perfect baked potato is crispy on the outside and pillowy in the middle. Cracked open and still steaming, it's ready to receive anything from a sprinkle of cheese to last night's stew. Prick the potatoes in a few places with the tines of a fork.

Mike's Perfect Baked Potatoes is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Mike's Perfect Baked Potatoes is something that I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have mike's perfect baked potatoes using 15 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Mike's Perfect Baked Potatoes:
  1. Get Basic Potatoes
  2. Make ready 2 Extra Large Idaho #1 Grade Potatoes [1+ pound a piece - choose fresh/firm potatoes without deep brown spots]
  3. Prepare Chilled Bacon Grease
  4. Get Fresh Cracked Black Pepper
  5. Take Garlic Powder
  6. Make ready Onion Powder
  7. Take Sea Salt
  8. Take 4 large Sheets Tinfoil
  9. Get Potato Toppers
  10. Prepare Salted Butter
  11. Get Shreadded Cheddar Cheese
  12. Take Fresh Sour Cream
  13. Prepare Fresh Parsley [chopped]
  14. Get Fresh Chives [chopped]
  15. Prepare Chopped Crispy Bacon Or Bacon Bits [optional]

Split the baked potatoes in half and scoop out most of the fluffy flesh with a fork into a bowl. For the filling, flake in the smoked mackerel and add the parsley or chives, three-quarters of the cheese, the horseradish or mustard and butter and stir with the potato flesh until just combined. The best ones happen the old fashioned-way: in the oven. Here's the scoop on making perfect baked potatoes. (Spoiler alert: no foil!) In its essence, a baked potato is a potato, baked.

Steps to make Mike's Perfect Baked Potatoes:
  1. Preheat your oven to 400°.
  2. Clean and chop vegetables of your choosing. Cover and refrigerate.
  3. Fully clean and fully dry your Idaho #1 grade potatoes.
  4. With a sharp knife - peirce your spuds three times at both ends and once in the middle. Or, you can use a fork to peirce them.
  5. Place your spuds on a large piece of tinfoil. Shiney side up.
  6. Smear your potatoes generously with cold bacon grease. Place back on tinfoil. You can use olive oil but, bacon grease definitely makes these better!
  7. Sprinkle fresh cracked black pepper, sea salt, garlic powder and onion powder to taste on both sides of your bacon greased potatoes. I tend to go heavy on the sea salt! These are big spuds!
  8. Wrap your potatoes up tightly.
  9. Double wrap your potatoes tightly in another sheet of tinfoil. Again, shiney side up. A double wrap is more steak house style and steams your spuds more evenly.
  10. Place potatoes seam side up on the center rack and place a cookie sheet on the rack underneath it to catch any potential drippings.
  11. ● Bake for 1 1/2 hours. After that, gently peirce potatoes with a sharp knife in the center where you'll eventually slice your potatoes open. If the knife enters with ease - you'll know they're fully baked. If not, bake a bit longer until soft. ● Know that if you're baking more than 2 large potatoes - you'll need to increase your baking time by approximately 15 minutes.
  12. ● Once fully baked - you'll have two options. You can either serve by slitting the tinfoil and potato - then squeezing both ends together to force the moist insides up and out. Fluff with fork. Serve immediately with toppers of your guests choosing. ● Or, you can do the exact same thing but, gently scoop out the insides with a large spoon leaving your shells fully in tact. Place all insides quickly in a bowl, mix in all of your toppers in and, gently place back into your potato shells. You may need to re-heat mixture [not tinfoil] in the microwave before plating. Garnish with fresh chives and parsley. Enjoy!

As with all elemental things, though, the simplicity of a baked potato is deceptive. Should baked potatoes be wrapped in foil? When making my baked potato recipe, I typically don't wrap them in foil. Making baked potatoes in the oven is so simple! Just follow these easy steps below to get started.

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