We LOVE baked potatoes in this houseā¦even Annie chows down on them. However, I find that I donāt make them very often. Why? Well, for some reason I just hate heating up the whole oven to make potatoes. I know thatās weird. In the summer, it makes sense to avoid it because of heating up the house, but in the winter I have no excuse.
But then I came across a genius ideaā¦to ābakeā potatoes in the crock pot! Iām not sure why I didnāt think of itā¦weāll chalk it up to sleep deprivation and Momnesia. But, there were a few problems I was seeing with all the posts out there about crock pot potatoes.
- They used aluminum foil. We try not to use aluminum foil much in this house and I really hate it touching my foodā¦so I sure didnāt want to cover my potatoes with it for 8 hours in high heat.Ā You can call me paranoid ā as long as you call me for dinner.
- If you didnāt use foil, some people reported that the potatoes ended up all brown and grody looking.Ā Iām not sure about you, but thereās something about eating food that looks ugly and grossā¦Iād be hard pressed to eat a potato that looked like doody ā because I see enough doody in my day. [Read more…]