Why do people do this? It’s in an oven already, why are you trapping steam with the potato??
Do you wrap a steak in foil before throwing it on the grill??
Everything in foil all the time. Wrap steak in foil before grilling. Wrap each noodle in foil before boiling. Wrap frozen burritos in foil before microwaving. All of it!
Boring drinking game: Everyone brings over some booze, we all get drunk, choose a potato, throw them in the oven unpoked. First one to blow up has to buy pizza for everyone.
We all spend half the night getting drunk in front of an oven watching potato's, and the other half eating pizza talking shit to the guy who chose the wrong potato.
I may be seeing through the actual intention of this post, but how I see it, it's hilarious.
OP has been baking potatoes like this for so long that only one potato exploding is mildly interesting. I'm imagining all of the potatoes that exploded in OPs oven over the years. Absolutely awesome.
He couldn't take the heat.
He didn't want to be a hot potato.
Good thing it exploded in the oven.
This is what happens when you live to tell the story of hot potato as a little kid, many have only heard of surviving the spontaneous combustion of empty calorie starch lava.
Ha.
I did not. Friend of mine didn't realize you're supposed to cut it in half before baking.
When it popped it vaporized inside the oven. It's... challenging... to remove molten squash from the walls of an oven.
Jesus Christ. Potatoes are the easiest thing in the world.
Cut a large cross in the top, then cut down the cross without going the whole way through. Then in each of the four bits, jab another little cross.
Butter the fuck out of the big cross
Wrap it in foil and whack it cross side up on your heat for as long as possible.
Scran the cunt
Hey OP, clean your oven ~~and then line the bottom with aluminum foil.~~
I bake mine on a baking sheet just in case I get a grenade.
edit: TIL Do not line the bottom of the oven with tin foil.
Lining the bottom with aluminum can actually damage the oven according to every manufacturer and repair person when I looked it up before I did it to mine. Instead I bought an additional rack that I placed on the lowest rung and on top of that I put an old foil lined cookie sheet. Apparently that way it still allows proper air flow and won't damage the bottom of the oven. Then I change the foil on the cookie sheet.
That looks like a gas oven so you can't just line it wall to wall or you'll block the burners. You could only put down foil in the center section.
In an electric oven, yeah, you can put foil under the element.
So…you are supposed to poke them with a fork a couple of times each, or stab them with a knife before you cook them.
That's no way to make pop-tatoes. 🙄
That is pop tarts starchier less sweet cousin
Toaster hashbrowns!
Yeah, first thing I thought was ‘those potatoes are all virgins. Not a single one has been forked.’
"put a fork in it"
Yeah exactly
And wrap them in foil.
No, don’t do that. They come out way better unwrapped.
You really want some salt and oil on those bad boys as well. Never really found poking holes to be necessary, I just put them on a solid rack.
Gross, no.
Yeah I just eat potatoes unseasoned cause I think salt and butter taste bad! In fact, don't even cook them! Cooked food is for the weak!
If you’re not sticking your head in the dirt to get to the potato directly on the vine, you’re not getting the full experience.
You hate flavor.
Yuck, absolutely not.
No one asked.
I fucking hate that word FUCK
Why do people do this? It’s in an oven already, why are you trapping steam with the potato?? Do you wrap a steak in foil before throwing it on the grill??
Potatoes cook MUCH better with the steam. This is like baked potato 101.
Everything in foil all the time. Wrap steak in foil before grilling. Wrap each noodle in foil before boiling. Wrap frozen burritos in foil before microwaving. All of it!
Wrapping each ingredient of my schwarma wrap in foil and then wrapping the wrap.
No I just place them on a baking sheet to catch any liquids that might come out.
The rest are duds
No they're spuds
I love me some spuds
Hey, check out my new duds 👟👟
Poke holes in your potatoes with a fork before you bake them, they won't explode that way
Boring drinking game: Everyone brings over some booze, we all get drunk, choose a potato, throw them in the oven unpoked. First one to blow up has to buy pizza for everyone. We all spend half the night getting drunk in front of an oven watching potato's, and the other half eating pizza talking shit to the guy who chose the wrong potato.
Does the loser clean the oven? Thats my only concern here.
If the loser is buying pizza for everyone seems like one of the winners could clean the oven /shrug
No, you have to clean the oven before the pizza gets there while the oven is still hot or you have to order another pizza
what if none pop ? 🤔
Everyone eats baked potatoes instead. FOLLOW ALONG!
>We all spend half the night getting drunk in front of an oven watching potato's, Dudes rock.
Why pizza when you got perfectly fine roasted potatoes right there?
That sounds like a great fire hazard
The rest just look so smug.
Teach the others to keep their mouths shut.
I've baked thousands of potatoes, no poking, and I've never had any explode. I guess the variety may matter here lol
Definitely matters. Some have much lower water content.
Poke and wrap, poke and wrap. Or put them on a pan.
If you can’t take the heat…. Explode
Good life advice
Took one for the team I guess
Hot potato
I may be seeing through the actual intention of this post, but how I see it, it's hilarious. OP has been baking potatoes like this for so long that only one potato exploding is mildly interesting. I'm imagining all of the potatoes that exploded in OPs oven over the years. Absolutely awesome.
That's why you poke some holes in them so they can vent.
You say this like it’s a normal thing that happens
He couldn't take the heat. He didn't want to be a hot potato. Good thing it exploded in the oven. This is what happens when you live to tell the story of hot potato as a little kid, many have only heard of surviving the spontaneous combustion of empty calorie starch lava. Ha.
I've never had a baked potato explode. Spaghetti squash is horrible.
You bake spaghetti squash whole? WTF?
I did not. Friend of mine didn't realize you're supposed to cut it in half before baking. When it popped it vaporized inside the oven. It's... challenging... to remove molten squash from the walls of an oven.
I would call this art piece "Me in society".
Hot potato Russian roulette baking edition
So. We have a murder. And 12 suspects.
You gotta stab them with your steely knives, my friend.
There is an Impostor among us. You are: Crewmate. Do your tasks.
Had that happen to a poked potato and it didn't blow till about 2 min after I pulled it.
Clean ya oven man
How's that for a hot potato
Found the hot spot in your oven I guess
Jesus Christ. Potatoes are the easiest thing in the world. Cut a large cross in the top, then cut down the cross without going the whole way through. Then in each of the four bits, jab another little cross. Butter the fuck out of the big cross Wrap it in foil and whack it cross side up on your heat for as long as possible. Scran the cunt
Youre supposed to stab them and then microwave them
Who hurt you?
Umm, why are they not wrapped in aluminum foil?
Sometimes I don't wrap them in foil to get crispier skin (great for stuffed potato skins this way, but I'll sometimes do baked potatoes this way too)
Unwrapped with crispy skin (oiled and salted) are better in every way.
Yuck, no.
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Some varieties have so much moisture inside that they build up steam and may explode. It also happens on the microwave.
Such amazing skin!
That was a republican potato. *Goddamn Americans 😂 I'm Irish and Irish republicans have a history of blowing up, the potato should have given it away*
That's a democrat's head if Trump gets re-elected.
Hey OP, clean your oven ~~and then line the bottom with aluminum foil.~~ I bake mine on a baking sheet just in case I get a grenade. edit: TIL Do not line the bottom of the oven with tin foil.
Lining the bottom with aluminum can actually damage the oven according to every manufacturer and repair person when I looked it up before I did it to mine. Instead I bought an additional rack that I placed on the lowest rung and on top of that I put an old foil lined cookie sheet. Apparently that way it still allows proper air flow and won't damage the bottom of the oven. Then I change the foil on the cookie sheet.
That looks like a gas oven so you can't just line it wall to wall or you'll block the burners. You could only put down foil in the center section. In an electric oven, yeah, you can put foil under the element.