Baked Potatoes in the Crockpot
Woman in the Middle | January 19, 2015Please don’t judge me, but I was looking at people.com the other day when I came across one of those ads for other sites at the bottom of the page. It had a photo of a baked potato with the caption “surprising slowcooker recipes.” I thought the photo implied that baked potatoes could be cooked in a crock pot and I was intrigued, so I clicked on it. Guess what, according to the recipe (if you can call it that) from food.com, you can make baked potatoes in the crock pot. Seriously, this blew my mind!
I don’t know about you, but I inevitably want to cook something that requires an oven just as summer hits. Lets bake cookies, make lasagna, and bake potatoes with the air conditioner struggling to keep up. It tends to lead to comments from Hubby, like “why do you always want to start baking just as it gets hot?” So the idea that I could “bake” potatoes in my crock pot was very exciting and opened up a whole new way of making easy dinners. If the potatoes are done all I would have to do is open a can of chili, sauté up some mushrooms and onions, or even nuke a package of frozen broccoli and cheese sauce to top the potatoes, add a salad, and dinner would be done. This idea is so simple and wonderful that I am getting over excited and may need to go lie down.
The “recipe” is below.
Stab potatoes a few times with a fork and wrap each in foil. Fill crock pot with potatoes. Cover with lid and cook on high for 2 1/2 to 4 hours depending on the size of your potatoes. DO NOT add water. The person who submitted the recipe said it doesn’t hurt to leave them in for the full four hours, even if they are done sooner and that she has cooked five to six large potatoes on low for 8-10 hours and they came out perfectly.
I can’t wait to try this.
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