Baked Potatoes on BGE

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Just got the BGE this weekend. Was wondering how to cook baked potatoes on the BGE, e.g. temperature, foil, no foil, how long, etc. Any advice would be great!!!

Joel Ferman

Pat Forget,
I take the potato (in foil) and cook them for 350 degrees for about 1 hour.... usually indirect. I typically a small slice of butter, 5-6 good shakes of rub, a touch of olive oil, a light coating of roasted garlic and occasionally when I am in the mood I wrap the potato in 1/2 cooked bacon, then cook @ 350 for 1 hr.
enjoy
-Joel

RRP

Pat Forget, I basically follow the same as what Joel told you, but I use one "nail" through the foil in each potato. The "nail" is made of aluminum and looks just like a large 3.5" common box nail.

Joel Ferman

OOPS!!!
I forgot, always stab it a few time with a fork. RRP reminded me with his "nail." I do 3 evenly spaced stabs per side.
-Joel

The Naked Whiz

Pat Forget,
Obviously it depends on how big the potato is. I have this vision problem where everything looks really small in the store and then it triples in size when I get it home, so I usually have pretty big potatoes. I do them 1.5 hours at 350 to 400. I just rub them with oil and put them on the egg direct, but at the front edge where there is little liklihood of intense heat. If I remember, I roll them over halfway. I don't pierce them and never have had a potato blow up except in the microwave. [p]TNW

ravnhaus

The Naked Whiz,
We had one blow in the oven. Quite a mess. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it. Alway poke them with a fork now!

The Naked Whiz

ravnhaus,
Hmmm, maybe that was one of those exploding potatoes you get from one of those places on the back of a comic book! :-) Seriously, I've never had a potato do anything rude in 30 years except one in the microwave. Hmmm. [p]TNW

Tim M

The Naked Whiz,[p]Isn't that an exploding cigar, not a potatoe?[p]I had to fire a guy many, many years ago (at Winchester) when he put a cartridge primer in a co-workers cigarette. It seemed the guy was not found of cigarette smoke (can't blame him for that) and he thought it would be funny to put a rifle cartridge primer in the cigarette so that after about 1 min the flame got back to it. Scared the smoker real bad!! We all laughed when we saw he was OK - but I had to fire the guy who put it there. Hey, safety first! A primer has 2 metal parts that fly in different directions when they go off like that and they could hurt someone.[p]I did find it funny - Blew that cig in a billion pieces![p]Tim[p]

Unknown

Pat Forget,
Here is what Alton Brown (Good Eats on Food Network) had to say about baked potatoes:[p] "Here's the secret: Russets. I like Washington State but Idaho is fine, too. Now, the first thing you want to do is go Psycho on the potato. You want to poke holes all over it with a fork. Now that will let steam out as it forms which will help you get that nice, fluffy texture that we all so desire.
Now, into a bowl and give it just a little bit of oil. Now, what this is going to do is give us kind of a crunchy skin but also because the oil can get so much hotter than the water inside the potato, it's going to regulate the moisture in there and actually gives us that texture that we want. Now, because I like to eat the skins I give it a little bit of kosher salt. Just up the ante."[p]Alton doesn't use foil, just puts them into a 350 degree oven. It works for me.[p]Regards,
Chuck Lane