How do you bake your potato?

Diakonos · 05-16-2005, 01:23 PM

I have a two-fold question

1.What is the healthiest way to eat/prepare baked potato? What do you serve it with? Sour cream? Margarine? Broccoli? Which type potato is the best potato to use?

2. What is the best way to cook it? I can’t for the life of me make my baked potatoes come out soft the way that they come out in restaurants. I have poked holes in each end to allow more heat. I have wrapped them in foil. I have left them unwrapped. I have coated the skin with butter. I have tried I without butter. It doesn’t matter how hot I get my stove (even though I usually heat it to 400 degrees), or how long I leave the potato in. I have even tried to microwave it first, and them place it in the stove. Does anyone have suggestions? How can I bake the perfect, fluffy potato?

Nick+ · 05-16-2005, 02:10 PM

Do NOT use a microwave, to bake them.....

Dante · 05-16-2005, 02:23 PM

yams are one of the healthiest, the more irregular shaped ones. no sourcream or butter. i like to put cinnamon and splenda on it.

i like to put it in the microwave for about 3 mins, till they get soft. than chop them up and bake them. the microwave helps save time and they still come out crispy.

Diakonos · 05-16-2005, 02:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Nick+

Do NOT use a microwave, to bake them.....

Care to elaborate?

JLB001 · 05-16-2005, 02:28 PM

I nuke mine.

Pepper · 05-16-2005, 03:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nick+

Do NOT use a microwave, to bake them.....

I microwave my sweet potatoes for 4 minutes are so.

Why wouldn't you nuke them?

Doublebase · 05-16-2005, 04:05 PM

I microwave mine also

XcelKrush · 05-16-2005, 04:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pepper

I microwave my sweet potatoes for 4 minutes are so.

Why wouldn't you nuke them?

Its raises the GI a slight amount. Not really anything substantial though.

ReelBigFish · 05-16-2005, 05:29 PM

well the fact that it's overcooked or not is more important as how much the GI is raised, I believe.

Emma-Leigh · 05-16-2005, 11:42 PM

cooking in the microwave v's other forms of cooking will not alter the GI significantly enough to cause a problem. Especially if you are eating the potato with other things (protein/fats and fibre). The total meal effect is really what counts.

BigDyl · 05-17-2005, 07:04 AM

How the hell does it raise the GI? I nuke my organic steel cut oatmeal in the morning. Does this mean i'm fuct?

Emma-Leigh · 05-17-2005, 02:24 PM

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Originally Posted by BigDyl

How the hell does it raise the GI? I nuke my organic steel cut oatmeal in the morning. Does this mean i'm fuct?

Cooking anything can slightly alter the GI by breaking down the bonds in the food to a certain degree. The exception is oats really - which have resistant starch in them that somehow makes them relatively stable in the face of cooking....

Anyway - it doesn't alter the GI considerably at all (actually, the microwaved potato is still lower than some of the other forms of potato)....

Your oats are fine. Eat up.

05-16-2005, 01:23 PM	#1
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05-16-2005, 02:28 PM	#5
JLB001 I see YOU!! Elite Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Houston Posts: 8,293 Photos: 5	I nuke mine. "When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."

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Nick+ Senior Member Elite Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: ... Posts: 1,868 Photos: 4	Do NOT use a microwave, to bake them.....

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Dante tryin to grow... Elite Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Cleveland Posts: 461	yams are one of the healthiest, the more irregular shaped ones. no sourcream or butter. i like to put cinnamon and splenda on it. i like to put it in the microwave for about 3 mins, till they get soft. than chop them up and bake them. the microwave helps save time and they still come out crispy.

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Doublebase Lightweight, Ya Buddy! Elite Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Philly Posts: 7,323	I microwave mine also

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ReelBigFish Turtle Power! Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Hot A** Mississippi Posts: 608	well the fact that it's overcooked or not is more important as how much the GI is raised, I believe.

05-16-2005, 11:42 PM	#10
Emma-Leigh Acting Normal... Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Different shades of black Posts: 5,554	cooking in the microwave v's other forms of cooking will not alter the GI significantly enough to cause a problem. Especially if you are eating the potato with other things (protein/fats and fibre). The total meal effect is really what counts.