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Boil microwave potatoes?

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    #32
    Carl Flaky Tailgate
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121010850#Comment_121010850

    Right, because a pot of water and microwave have many similarities unlike microwaves and ovens…



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    #33
    Jim_Hodge
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121013617#Comment_121013617

    Yet again you are equating microwave cooking with an oven. The mechanics/methods of heating/cooking are as different as between baking and boiling. You end up with a cooked whole potato but, while tasting somewhat similarly, it is not baked. Both are jacket potatoes.

    Microwaves use electromagnetic waves and cook food from the inside out, unlike traditional oven baking, which relies on hot air to cook.



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    #34
    con747
    Registered Users Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭con747


    I bake my potatoes in the microwave with it set on 30% microwave power and on 180c oven setting. It does them perfectly. So you can bake them in a microwave and get a baked result only quicker. I would have thought most microwaves would have a combi setting these days.

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    #35
    Carl Flaky Tailgate
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121013690#Comment_121013690

    Okay, maybe your microwave is incapable of acting like an oven but mine certainly can and I can confidently assure you if I served you a baked potato from the microwave vs my oven you would not tell me the difference.

    well, no actually microwaves use water vibrations in the food to cook by creating heat. Baking does not necessarily require “hot air” (like bread uses steam).

    You’re telling me I’m wrong because you have a very basic view of how baking works and insist microwave ovens can’t replicate it when the fact is they can and have been capable for years.

    If you buy a cheap microwave from Tesco for €20 and it causes your potato to shrivel into something adjacent to a stone maybe don’t then insist that baked potato is impossible in the microwave?

    jesus like just google “microwave baked potato” and there is catalogues of evidence they can be done 🥲



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    #36
    Carl Flaky Tailgate
    Posts: 0 ✭ Carl Flaky Tailgate


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121013723#Comment_121013723

    thank you!!

    microwaves just help the oven do it’s job faster. Baking is not just sitting in a box of hot air like 🥲



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    #37
    con747
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121013795#Comment_121013795

    That microwave is 18 years old so I would have thought they all had the option these days. Expensive when bought but still going strong.

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    #38
    con747
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    Here's another myth busted. https://www.alufoil.org/aluminium-foil-and-microwave-ovens as long as you follow the correct instructions.

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    #39
    the beer revolu
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    A combi microwave/oven is very different to a microwave.

    No one would serve me a microwaved potato (as opposed to one done in a combi) and me not know that it isn't baked. Cafés do it all the time.

    As I said before, I often start potatoes in the micro before baking. I've nothing against microwaves.



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    #40
    con747
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    🙄 When is a microwave not a microwave, I give up.

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    #41
    L1011
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    A "microwave" that has a 180c mode is a combi oven and not a microwave oven. You are baking the potatoes using the convection element/fan which the vast, vast majority of microwaves don't have.

    There's probably more "combi" microwaves out there that have grills in them than have convection ovens - combis with ovens or ovens and grills are now quite expensive specialised units. I have one, it wasn't cheap and its much larger than a normal microwave.

    Trying to claim that you have microwaved a potato when you have, in fact, baked it using a normal oven element inside a microwave is strange, and being so very angry about insisting that you microwaved it is perverse.



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    #42
    con747
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    So you are saying my Microwaved baked potatoes are not microwaved? Even though the microwave function is being used in conjunction with the baking aspect? To me I have microwaved my potato in my microwave. If you are referring to me being angry I am not sure where you get that from by the way, and perverse wtf.

    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121014668#Comment_121014668


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    #43
    L1011
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121014684#Comment_121014684

    Yes, I am - because they're baked, by a conventional oven element and fan within a combi oven. Not a microwave.

    There is another poster that is angry about the impossibility of baking a potato in a microwave being pointed out to them, not you - they are also baking them in a combi oven, not a microwave.



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    #44
    con747
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    Good sidestep, I don't think I will engage anymore.

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    #45
    con747
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121013795#Comment_121013795

    You must be the "angry" poster mentioned because after looking back on the thread there is no other suspects apart from me and I was told it wasn't me so....

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    #46
    the beer revolu
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121014694#Comment_121014694

    That's probably wise.



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    #47
    the beer revolu
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121014646#Comment_121014646

    When it's a combination oven.

    It really isn't difficult.



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    #48
    con747
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121014646#Comment_121014646
    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121014722#Comment_121014722

    Out of interest can you explain how you quoted my post #40 after I edited it but you could quote that post without the edit almost an hour later?

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    #49
    the beer revolu
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121014733#Comment_121014733

    No idea. I just quoted what I saw (which was the edited quote, I think) . I can't explain what came up



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    #50
    con747
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    OK, so lets agree to disagree if all agreed.

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    #51
    Gloomtastic!
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    Ok folks, all take a deep breath please. There’s also no need for name calling, that’s personal and attacking the poster not the post.

    The Gloomster!



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    #52
    the beer revolu
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    That was a bizarre argument, even by Boards standards 🤣



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    #53
    Gloomtastic!
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    Irish people of my generation and older, whether they like it or not, are very attached to their spuds. It can get very personal.

    Not so much with the younger ones with the exception of chips maybe. Spice bags! 🙄



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    #54
    Carl Flaky Tailgate
    Posts: 0 ✭ Carl Flaky Tailgate


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121015886#Comment_121015886

    shudder

    salt and chilli powder on chips with dry overcooked chicken.. my favourite 🤢



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    #55
    Ezeoul
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    Aldi sell produce bags for 49c. They're big enough for a 4kg bag of spuds and reusable.

    They are a game changer when it comes to storing potatoes. I had a bag of maris pipers for almost 3 weeks before they started to sprout.

    Also great for storing onions, tomatoes and bananas.

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    #56
    magicbastarder
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121014686#Comment_121014686

    i have the same oven that's being talked about. makes a perfectly good spud, it combines microwaves and convection oven either simultaneously or in series to cook the spud from the inside with microwaves and bake it from the outside with heat. depending on the size of the spud, it will go from cold to a nicely 'baked' spud in ten minutes.



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