As far as the toppings for baked potatoes go, your options are nearly endless. At the very least, try lots of butter plus a sprinkle of salt and pepper. If you're in a hurry (or just short of ...

A baked potato can be part of a nutritious meal when you make healthy topping choices, but you'll have to make some minor adjustments when baking a potato at altitudes 3,000 feet above sea level or ...

While there are dozens of varieties of Russet potatoes out there, you'll probably never see the specific type on a label unless you're shopping at a farmer's market. For this project, I bought a ...

Always cook or parcook potatoes before freezing. The water content in raw potatoes freezes into ice crystals that rupture ...

Turns out, the baked potato has always been big and great. In 1909, Hazen Titus, the dining car superintendent on the Northern Pacific Railway, had a vision: Having learned of a surplus of ...

I like to oven-cook my bacon, so I do it while the baked potatoes are cooling. To cook your bacon in the oven, place the strips on a parchment or foil-lined baking sheet and bake at 400 degrees ...

Then, you arrange the potatoes on a wire rack set into a sheet pan — without piercing them with a fork — and bake them until the centers reach 205°F (45 minutes to 1 hour).

I like to oven-cook my bacon, so I do it while the baked potatoes are cooling. To cook your bacon in the oven, place the strips on a parchment or foil-lined baking sheet and bake at 400 degrees ...

Results: My potatoes took 42 minutes to cook through. This dry-heat method left the skins feeling thicker than the other methods that employ dry heat (i.e. the oven), and they ended up a bit tough.