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My baked potato just exploded!

I’m vaguely recalling now you’re supposed to prick them with a fork to allow steam to escape. Well, I didn’t this time.

I heard a very soft boom from the oven after I raised the heat after 1/2 an hour, because I like a chewy skin. I believe that was my second mistake.

Can’t imagine what it would be like to place it in front of a guest… then POW!

Don’t let what happened to me happen to you [bold]: (

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by Anonymousreply 25November 11, 2022 4:33 AM

It would be a good side dish at the Griswold Thanksgiving:

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by Anonymousreply 1November 11, 2022 1:52 AM

[quote] potato just exploded!

So did my Potatoe!

by Anonymousreply 2November 11, 2022 1:59 AM

Proof that you can post about virtually anything.

by Anonymousreply 3November 11, 2022 2:02 AM

When you reflect on your life at present, OP, what makes you so sad? Where did things go wrong?

by Anonymousreply 4November 11, 2022 2:03 AM

Dumb OP, you could have just gone to one of the finer baked potato bars in your area.

by Anonymousreply 5November 11, 2022 2:28 AM

YUMMO!!

by Anonymousreply 6November 11, 2022 2:36 AM

I'm sorry your "baked potato" "exploded", OP.

by Anonymousreply 7November 11, 2022 2:38 AM

This is the real Greg.

by Anonymousreply 8November 11, 2022 2:41 AM

[quote]R3 Proof that you can post about virtually anything.

If you’d read to the end, you’d have seen a human life could have been imperiled.

I hope a baked potato blows up in your face.

by Anonymousreply 9November 11, 2022 2:49 AM

R1 The pan to Clark trying to chew the dry turkey *always* makes me LOL. Thanks.

by Anonymousreply 10November 11, 2022 2:52 AM

I thought it only happened in microwaves so I don’t prick ones in oven.

by Anonymousreply 11November 11, 2022 2:56 AM

From Dr. Potato:

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[italic]”A russet potato is usually about 80 percent water, so poking it and trimming off the ends will help the steam escape. Sometimes a potato could be even moister and the water, especially in a larger size potato may be trying to escape as steam from the middle cells of the potato. It hits the outer cells, already expanding from heat and bursts open. Usually it doesn't explode, just breaks the skin open.

“A couple of things to check... is the potato baking too long? Is the outer skin wrinkled? The internal temperature of a fully baked potato is 210 degrees F, easy to measure with a meat thermometer. In restaurants they usually pull the potatoes out of the oven at 185 degrees F as it will continue to cook. Are there hot spots in the oven that are cooking at a higher temperature? Is the potato on the middle rack with more air circulation around it rather than the top rack? Has the oven been calibrated? Is it on a conventional or convection oven setting? Convection helps circulate the air for more even cooking.”

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by Anonymousreply 12November 11, 2022 3:09 AM

Fucking retard.

by Anonymousreply 13November 11, 2022 3:12 AM

I actually have four baked potatoes in the oven as I'm typing this, and I've poked holes in none of them. Should I be concerned? I've never poked holes in them or ever had this happen.

by Anonymousreply 14November 11, 2022 3:19 AM

Are you fat?

by Anonymousreply 15November 11, 2022 3:25 AM

Some of you people are real doofuses! Prick your potatoes! It’s not that hard!

by Anonymousreply 16November 11, 2022 3:29 AM

Now my cock is burnt and still flaccid, R16. Your advice sucks.

by Anonymousreply 17November 11, 2022 3:43 AM

I heard a woman once telling a cashier why she had a giant fat lip. She had bit into a microwaved, peeled hardboiled egg- and it exploded.

by Anonymousreply 18November 11, 2022 3:50 AM

[quote]R14 I actually have four baked potatoes in the oven as I'm typing this, and I've poked holes in none of them. Should I be concerned? I've never poked holes in them or ever had this happen.

Are you still alive???

GET OUT OF THE HOUSE!!!

by Anonymousreply 19November 11, 2022 4:04 AM

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by Anonymousreply 20November 11, 2022 4:07 AM

Can I have your stuff?

by Anonymousreply 21November 11, 2022 4:13 AM

Sorry about your potato.....you fat whore!!

by Anonymousreply 22November 11, 2022 4:15 AM

I did that once as a kid. My mom told me to put the potatoes in the oven but she forgot to tell me to prick them. Massive potato explosion.

by Anonymousreply 23November 11, 2022 4:27 AM

How stupid you can be????

by Anonymousreply 24November 11, 2022 4:31 AM

Don’t talk to r23 that way.

by Anonymousreply 25November 11, 2022 4:33 AM
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