Here’s a question for you…
Which method makes the perfect jacket potato? In this video, I test oven-baked potatoes, air fryer baked potatoes, and microwave jacket potatoes to find out which gives the crispiest skin and fluffiest middle.
We’ll cover:
✅ How long to cook a jacket potato in the oven, air fryer & microwave
✅ Best temperatures for each cooking method
✅ Tips for crispy potato skin every time
✅ Which cooking method tastes the BEST
If you’ve ever wondered how to make the best baked potato, this side-by-side comparison will help you choose the right method for your kitchen. Whether you love the slow-cooked oven texture, quick & crispy air fryer results, or speedy microwave convenience – I’ve got you covered.
💬 Comment below: Are you Team Oven, Team Air Fryer, or Team Microwave?
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Just came here to leave some positivity and say you’ve got great teeth.
I love the way you oiled up those potatoes, nice hands 😊
It's what you do after! Once cooked like any shown here, Criss cross slice them half way through and press them down flat somewhat. Then pan fry in butter. Then load them up with picco de galleo and sour cream.
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Enjoy potatoes. Great ideas Poppy!! I’ve been following you since you started. Love real women, beautiful and fun
Nice teeth Poppy!! 😁 🪥
My copy of The Potato Book is filthy because it's always out in the kitchen, the pages are like Braille 🤣🤣🤣
OK, UK friends! What are the beans you’re putting on potatoes?! I must try this. Thanks.
Desiree variety – done in he oven every time for me! Another nice video – thanks
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Boy did this video get off track 🤪
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With my microwave and a medium sized potato, anything over seven minutes is overcooked. It kind of looks like the air fryer potatoes were fully cooked when they came out of the microwave, and the air fryer just crisps the skin. Maybe my microwave is especially powerful, but it's 12 years old, so I doubt it.
And then the microwave only potato is just completely overdone.
Oven all the way for me
If you cook the air fryer potatoe in the microwave for 10 mins and the microwave potatoe for 12 minutes, then the air fryer version is basically mostly cooked in the microwave. I don’t think you can call that an air fryer potatoe. The only real test will be to cook each one in their own device. Baked/jacket potatoes in the microwave are terrible, so why do that before you put it in the air fryer? In my air fryer, they are the ultimate potatoes if done properly.
There is also the part cook in the microwave then finish in the oven very similar result to the oven
Love your airfryer book. And your teeth 😬
you forgot the wrap in foil and stick on a fire
Sorry children.
Microwaved baked potatoes come out a lot better if you smother them in salt before cooking them. Put a bit of oil on them sprinkle salt (table) and turn them halfway through.
Start in microwave and finish in airfryer…
10.46…."They've gone a little bit ball sackish"……hahaha…brilliant….🤣🤣🤣🤣
When I make potatoes in the microwave (which I rarely do), I have found the best way is to put them inside an oven mitt (one of the sort of hefty quilted ones) and cook for about 8 minutes. You won't be able to use the mitt for a while because it soaks up its share of steam, but the potatoes come out pretty fluffy, with a minimum of that gluey, "microwave" texture. Usually, though, I only use that as a first step if I don't have quite enough time to do the oven roast all the way through. Honestly, though, some of the best jacket potatoes I've ever had have been campfire ones…Though that may be tinged with nostalgia. But there's something about that slightly uneven finish, with a few almost charred bits here and there which is supremely satisfying.
An absolutely GORGEOUS woman with an A+++ personality and a total boss in the kitchen. Thanks for being an inspiration and a great demonstration on how to have self-love and respect (and look amazing while doing it!) Thank you for being you ❤️ (P.S. – your teeth look amazing!!!)
Never change, Poppy. Please never, ever change.
All three methods have advantages. The potatoes in the microwave were overcooked. If it had been cooked for only 8 or 9 minutes, then they would have been perfect.
For the microwave, stand the potato on toothpicks in the microwave and it won't have those hard bits.
Oh yes! Just absolutely stoned out of my bones!
poppy invented the potato! she has also had four best-selling cookbooks, established a TV career and restarted Invisalign twice and her teeth are getting better ❤
12 mins!! I only do about 6 in the micro usually. Potato is fully cooked but I blast it on highest in airfryer for 5mins to crisp the skin.
Can also pressure cook a load over 1/2 cup water on a trivet for 12-18mins high pressure (depending on size of biggest potatoes) then a full natural pressure release, these can then be stored in fridge or freezer (great for resistant starch/lower carb digestion) or airfried for 10mins to crisp up. I like this method as the initial pressure cooking time can cook a large batch.
Micro wav A WTF
As an 80yearold plus I think I can say the best way to cook a baked potato. in the beginning we only had the oven or the fire and I used the oven and always enjoyed a good oven baked potato, but they take so long and when the microwave came along and I found you could cook a potato in them that's the way I went and forfeited the crispy skin for a semi crispy one which when you are adding things like beans and cheese to the potato was not a great forfeit, but then when the air fryer came along I quickly bought one of these for the convenience promised and speed of cooking I did the micro wave first and finish in the air fryer method and that is what I do until some other appliance comes along. By the way I never pierce mine as I think the retained steam helps the cooking like a pressure cooker
They cook beautifully in a slow cooker. I rub it with the slightest bit of oil, stab a knife in 4 or 5 times. I then usually start with up to 5 minutes in the microwave, then high setting on the slow cooker for about 3 or 4 hours. It produces the creamiest jacket potatoes with a lovely crispy skin where it touches the pot. DO NOT use too much oil, I did once and the pot cracked from side to side.
The best tasting jacket potatoes are cooked on a open oak wood camp fire no need to adding salt pepper or butter they taste fantastic
My favorite way to cook potatoes is very American. 8 coat them in oil and coarse sea salt and then put them in the smoker. The smoke in the skin and salt adds another level of flavor.
Going with the "getting aroused by potatoes" theme … if you put the oily/salty potatoes directly on your rack … well, now your rack is all oily and salty. And who doesn't love a well oiled and salted rack? 🤣
Edited for microwave coming up the rear. Good lord.
love it❤
I prefer "jacket potatoes", because you can oven-bake potatoes after peeling – even slicing! – them, so the term "baked potatoes" isn't specific enough. These are spuds baked in their skins/jackets, so calling them "jacket potatoes" is fine by me.
Love the video – and subscribed. I'll echo some of the criticism/debate on the Airfryer 12mins + 25mins method; this seems to trigger the release of too much moisture too fast. 7mins microwave + 20-25mins air fryer at about 190C depending on size delivers a more comparable potato to the Oven method.
But ten minutes in the microwave will have the potatoes cooked through! They don't crisp up, but they are still edible – had some the other day for lunch. Also, I was taught to push a metal skewer through the ones to cook in the oven, which significantly reduces the cooking time – or you can get a gadget that pierces them and you can sit them on.
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When microwaving, you should put the potatos on a damped piece of kittchen towel
Then it's getting steamed and dont get waxy 😉
And then end it with 5 min full whack in oven or airfryer 😉
in your scoring the oven and airfryer both scored 21, knocking .75 off the airfryer doesnt seem fair especially when you factor in costs, best i could work out be bout 15p for airfryer and 75p for oven if you factor in the preheating, so that .75 doesnt really seem worth it
best is wrapped in foil in some coals on a bbq 🙂
Nope. Not a variety we have. I ate a lot of them while living in Germany, though. Here in the US,we have the Russet Burbank (or just Russet). The so-called Idaho spud is a russet Burbank. The other common potatoes are the Yukon Gold (best for mashing, a creamy texture when cooked) and the red potato (a smaller waxy potato, best for boiling or roasting).