Changing shape of microwave usage is lead by jacket potatoes
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Jasmine 26/08/2010 7:33pm (2 years ago)
I have tralwd all through the internet to find a method for making your own microwave chips but have found nothing! I usually make my own home made chunky chips with a pan of oil on my hob but I don't have an oven or hob at the moment and really miss having a nice plate of tasty chips. All I have to cook with for the time being is a microwave.
Can you help?
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david abbott 08/12/2009 6:48am (2 years ago)
I am looking for the rotary machine that cooks chips in a little oil by constantly moving them around - do you know the name of this machine
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Potato Council 30/07/2009 5:32pm (3 years ago)
Thanks! We do love to hear from fellow potato lovers!
John, do take a look at our Baked Potatoes section in Recipes, there's lots of ideas for jacket potato toppings that can be prepared in a microwave.
To cook a jacket potato in the microwave:
Scrub the potatoes, then dry and prick each one several times with a fork. Cook one potato (225g/8oz) for 6 minutes on full power (800W), turn half way through cooking. Allow to stand for 1 – 2 minutes before serving. If cooking more than one potato at a time you need to increase the cooking time accordingly.
If you want, rubbing the skin with a few drops of oil and salting the skin (you can brush it off after cooking if you're cutting back on salt) will both help give it a crispier skin. Happy Cooking! -
new potatoes are delicious 24/07/2009 6:10pm (3 years ago)
Don't need to be reminded of how great potatoes are. Have eaten them in every week of my life. They are bloody delicious.
Though for a long time chips I cannot cook, live in a tinder box block of flats. I would trust a deep fat frying in, never mind the smell they make and stays for ages, not ideal in winter months.
Jacket potatoes, well having only a microwave to cook in. I always buy washed poatoes and don't peel any further.
Never done jacket potatoes like those you would cook in an oven. Wouldn't have thought it possible, learn something new each day.
Yes cook frozen veg, meals and all else in the microwave. Except chips and I love chips. The chip shops chips here taste blinking foul.
I know there's microwave chips, but their prices are extortionate and out of my budget. I wonder why no one has ever invented a way to cook raw potatoes sliced chips in the microwave yet. Hope someone invents one soon that works. Not makes soggy white chips like those you'll get from frozen chips.
Had once a microwave that could oven bake (waste of time doing that). Could also grill and yet still either way couldn't even cook any fresh chips or frozen chips.
I noted theres a manufacture that does some rotary fryer using hardly no oil. Apart from it being on watchdog as it likes to catch fire, bad wiring or something. The cost of the thing is over £100. Who would buy a chip fryer for £100, maybe £20-£30 but never more than that.
Well there you go, my all singing new potatoes in the microwave pinged ready, off to scoff 'em. -
John Adams 17/06/2009 1:55pm (3 years ago)
I am looking for recipes for jacket potatoes in the microwave only. Any suggestions please?
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