I've a potato baking in the oven, what shall I put inside it?

I love real bacon bits and shredded cheese and lots of butter and salt.

Rarebit!

Are you Irish?

Bacon, cheese, any leftover sausages from a Sunday fry up, whatever is in the fridge, it's all good OP.

What is a "Sunday fry up"?

shredded cheese, sour cream, bacon bits

Turkey meatballs and graxy!

I like a glob of butter and sour cream but if I want to watch calories a spoonful of light kefir cheese will do.

Caviar and creme fraiche, dahling.

Your uncut cock.

Salsa & Cheese

Chili

You should just put a tad of salt and one half teaspoon of avocado.

SOS or Beef Stroganoff.

[quote]Your uncut cock.

Actually, I'm Jewish. Sorry to disappoint you.

Some of these options sound so delicious ...but unfortunately no sour cream or bacon in the house.

I have some crab... layered Orkney Crab with egg from Waitrose so I might use that or just good ol' baked beans and butter.

Venezuelan beaver cheese and three poached plover's eggs

'put inside it' , Petal?

You surely mean 'what shall I FULLY LOAD it with?'

Ooh, Waitrose. Fancy Schmancy. In that case load it with shredded haunch of venison and crumble some Duchy Originals aged cheddar on it

People here are so helpful. I have hope for humanity.

Pretend it's a baked potato bar and PILE on the toppings. OP!

salt

freshly ground pepper

butter (try whipped, herbed, or garlic butter)

sour cream (I use light) or yogurt Cheese:

shredded cheddar or jack

crumbled blue or feta

grated Parmesan

Fresh herbs and seasonings:

chopped fresh basil, cilantro, oregano, or dill

crushed red pepper

seasoned salt

chopped chives

chili

taco meat

fajita chicken or beef

pulled pork

sea urchin

crumbled bacon

chopped ham

smoked salmon

chopped salami or pepperoni

chopped scallions or red onions

steamed broccoli, green beans, or asparagus

grilled corn

beans

chopped fresh tomatoes

chopped sun-dried tomatoes

sauteed spinach

sauteed mushrooms

grilled onions

roasted red peppers

sliced jalapenos

thawed frozen peas

chopped avocados or guacamole

salsa

barbecue sauce

graxy

alfredo sauce

nacho sauce

blue cheese or ranch salad dressing

marinara sauce

pesto

Fuck you OP. Now I want a baked potato with beans and butter and I have none.

I've never heard of putting baked beans on a potato. Must be a British thing.

That said, I LOVE chili (preferably beanless), grated Cheddar, and onions on a potato. Sometimes at Wendy's I get a plain baked potato and a small chili and put the chili on the potato.

Cheese'n'beans is my go-to comfort meal when I can't be bothered to cook properly. I add Tabasco to the beans. Oakwood cheddar gives a meaty tang. I do the potatoes properly in the oven (not the microwave) and rub the skin with olive oil and salt first, so it goes all crispy.

How fancy of you OP: a mirror in the kitchen!

A little bit of salt, a dash of pepper and a T-bone steak on top.

Fuck a tater!

Take half a can of salsa flavor refried beans, add a couple table spoons of canned diced tomatoes, 2 oz. of a good cheddar cheese, and 2 oz. of spicy guacamole dip. Cook together on the stove and then use to fill four small baked potatoes or two large ones.

Of course if you do that, you won't need to eat anything else until tomorrow.

I'm sorry I meant 2 teaspoons of the spicy guac dip, not 2 oz.

[quote]Of course if you do that, you won't need to eat anything else until tomorrow.

Says who?

greek yogurt

seriously.

[quote]That said, I LOVE chili (preferably bean less)

Chili doesn't agree with my bowels.

stan zbornak put a ring inside of a baked potato once for dorothy.

Whoever Stan was, he should have left his ring out of my potato.

Anyway, I've had it now. I used the crab stuff from Waitrose and it was quite nice. The potato had a slightly sweet, cloying taste and I read recently that this can be caused by keeping it in the fridge, even though I pulled it out yesterday in anticipation of this evening.

The sour cream with bits of bacon is, of all these these suggestions, the one that's stayed in my mind and the one that I'll have to fulfil asap...even though sour cream is not a typical British staple (is that correct English? Do tell!)

& yes, baked beans on a baked potato can be very nice.

Small curd cottage cheese and M & M's

Thank you for the follow-up, OP.

French's fried onions also make a good dressing.

I'm so glad you specified London, England OP! Otherwise I would have thought you were posting from London, Mexico!

What is it with Brits and baked beans? The war is over, you no longer have to live on rations. Live it up a little.

[quote]Otherwise I would have thought you were posting from London, Mexico!

Or London, Ontario,

Or perhaps New London, CT; or New London, NH? There are so many ersatz possibilities.

But, let's get back to that potatoe.

suis d'accord avec Ypir

No "e" on potato Dan Quayle/r43

Mea culpa, R45 and all!

Boursin cheese makes a lovely baked potato topping.

R34 is so achingly new here, isn't she?

[quote][R34] is so achingly new here, isn't she?

Yes.

It takes time to learn how to post effectively, comprehensively & appropriately on a thread about baked potato fillings.

R49 also did not get the GG reference, clearly

r9 offers up the definitive gay suggestion.

Chili, beans, "fry ups" and other such shite in one's pomme de terre? Travesty.

Why do you bake it in the oven, OP? It takes forever. It comes out better if you just pop it in the microwave.

Make sure it's fully loaded!

R52 - false. Pretty much anything tastes better when prepared with a stove or oven than when nuked, and potatoes are no exception.

Preheat your oven very hot - around 450 F. Poke holes in the potato skin and rub butter, cooking oil (not olive oil!), or (best!) bacon fat on it. Put directly on the oven rack and bake until fully cooked - around 45 minutes for a large potato. Slice open, add butter, salt and pepper. Sour cream, too, if you like. The result is a perfect food. Absolutely delicious and in no way comparable to an ordinary nuked potato.

I like it fairly simple. Salt, fresh ground pepper & a big spoon of sour cream. I eat the flesh of the potato and put some fresh butter on the skins. The skins are the tastiest part. I'll have to go get a potato, haven't had one in a year.

I’ll trade you a baked potato for a piece of coconut cake I just made. It’s got buttercream frosting!

Coat in olive oil and roll in salt. NO PRICKS. Bake in a 500 degree oven for an hour and fifteen minutes. After taking it out, drop it from about a foot’s height onto the counter. Then open and season with as much butter, salt, and pepper as you want. Really, load it on.

Once the potato is cooked, scoop out the white stuff and mix with milk, green onion, cauliflower, salt, and pepper. Heat in a saucepan with a dallop of beef or chicken fat.

Put whatever cheese you own into the skins and place back in oven on high until melty.

Reload potato. Enjoy.

Please tell me people don’t put tuna in a baked potato.

Or rather, please don’t tell me people put tuna in a baked potato.

Jews.

Hot Fudge!!

Fresh tears of virgin Swiss milk maids. If you don’t have fresh on hand, store bought is fine.

R62 that’s your solution to everything.

For low calorie, salsa.

To throw caution to the winds, Irish butter and Cabot Seriously Sharp Cheddar Cheese, grated.

Green eggs and ham.

Thread is from 2015. Potato is from the Great Famine and probably infected with blight.

Put mashed potatoes in your potato, that way you have more potato. Mmm.

Prunes!

Why not set up a bar for your friends and neighbors to decide for you?

Cash, of course.

How about some spotted dick?

I'm baking a bunch for emergency snow food!

Dan Quayle? (it's a potatoe)

OP way to make a baked potato sound bougie

R57, I always prick my baked potatoes. It rarely happens but once in a blue moon I've had a baked potato explode in the oven because I didn't prick it first. It is NOT fun to clean up that mess!

Cynanide.

[quote] Prunes!

And codfish. Don't forget the codfish.

Very old thread here, but here's a suggestion for another time. Are you a fan of Scottish stovies OP? I sometimes do a rendition in the jackets... beef broth, some drippings if you have them, then top with the crispy fried onions. Bit of Bovril and butter works well if you have no bouillon or drippings.

[quote] "Rarebit!"

Yes, please, R2. Or Raclette!

Raclette is great.

Webster??

R57, (maybe it’s obvious to others but) what is the purpose of dropping the potato from on high?

R82 seems like it would make a huge mess.

Plain yogurt, pepper, and butter.

R68 OP If you're Jewish and eat crab and bacon, you could be one of the uncut ones.

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You don’t put something inside the potato, rather, you add toppings on top of the potato.

Night I suggest butter, sour cream, cheddar cheese, & bacon bits?

Fuck off, Necroposters!

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You fucked up from the get-go, OP. This is the baked potato you should have prepared!

R90 that is so much work for something so stupid. But I absolutely adore Aunt Sandy and her cheery enthusiasm, so I give her an A for effort.

We're all adults here. You can say you're carrying an illegitimate infant. The most important thing he or she needs is prenatal vitamins and love. In the USA, we call it having "a bun in the oven".

Butter, salt & pepper, and pinto beans.

[quote]what shall I put inside it?

Inside the potato or inside the oven?

If it's the latter, and it's gas, try your head.

Bbq'd, shredded brisket.

I’m surprised nobody suggested Boursin!

Broccoli and some grated cheese.

It's been six years since OP posted. His potato is probably almost done by now.

I haven’t read the whole thread, but roll the outside in melted butter and sprinkle the skin v generously w coarse salt and pepper.

Then without damaging the app we king structure of the potato, gently mash the potato interior with a fork, but not too much. You want fluffed potato. Then into the fluffed potato interior, fold in generous amounts of salt, pepper, chives, and sour cream. Fluff up this mixture attractively within the potato to jacket.

Then top with the traditional butter, sour cream, chives, and cheese and bacon, if you wish, along with more salt and pepper.

Serve.

This is known as “Special Potato.”

*without damaging the attractive structure of the potato

Also fold in butter

- r99

Why can’t you have sour cream if your Jewish? What do Russian and Ukrainian Jews put on borscht? Learn me, please…

The secret ingredient is crime.

Who knows, r102. They eat bacon on the porch or some shit, as if God wouldn’t notice, not that he cares about all this silly shit in the first place. It’s all a LARP.

Drizzle with spunk. Yum!

Potato Baking in the Time Before COVID.