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

Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, mike's perfect baked potatoes. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Mike's Perfect Baked Potatoes is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Mike's Perfect Baked Potatoes is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

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.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook mike's perfect baked potatoes using 15 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

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

Perfect baked potatoes print recipe. ***NOTE: The method listed below uses an oven to bake the potatoes. This is the best baked potato recipe and it will show you how to get that fluffy inside and the crispy, salty, potato skin you love on the outside. #bakedpotato #steakhousepotato #baked #potato #potatoes #thebest #roasted. Wondering how restaurants get those perfect baked potatoes? This is a cooperative recipe that I put together using techniques I have gathered from my father, brother in law, eldest I know that you will love the ease of putting together these very flavorful baked potatoes.

Instructions 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!

NOTE: There is a pictorial tutorial in the photo gallery to the left. These potatoes were roughly the same size, but you should still assume that the lack of uniformity in potatoes is a variable I could not control. The effort: I should first acknowledge that all baked potatoes are easy to make. Still, this one was the easiest. I pricked it with a fork a couple times.

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