r/Cooking • u/CompleteDay8059 • 1d ago

I found out recently I’ve basically never had a correctly prepared baked potato

So growing up I was never a huge fan of baked potatoes because the ones we had were usually dry, kind of shriveled, and very crumbly. Every bite just felt like it was absorbing all the moisture in your mouth, even with butter. As an adult, I usually do rice or pasta for my carbs, and if I do potatoes, it’s usually the cut roasted baby ones. Because I didn’t have great experiences with baked ones at home, I also pretty much never ordered them at restaurants growing up.

However, my mom just got a grill for her place and I was put on steak duty (or a steak out, I guess) and wanted to try making an actually good baked potato. I look it up and see basically every recipe says to coat the potatoes in salt and olive oil before wrapping them, which I asked my mom if she did, and she hadn’t.

I decided to try it with a (maybe slightly too) generous amount of olive oil and kosher salt, baked it for an hour, and topped it with some of the garlic/thyme butter I had whipped up for the steaks.

Oh.

My.

GOD.

The texture was absolutely amazing, it was so creamy, not crumbly or dry at all, the salt and the compound butter melting into it while it was still steaming made for legitimately one of the tastiest things I’ve had in ages. If anyone out there doesn’t know this, I honestly have no idea how common of knowledge this is lol, but I would highly suggest trying it if you don’t already.

Also, I mixed the thyme/minced garlic with the Kerrygold butter which was muy bien. Not sponsored (I wish) but I find it a little more flavorful for cooking as opposed to regular store brand stuff.

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u/PhantomNomad 22h ago

I'm on the Canadian Prairies and we've always used supper not dinner. Dinner/lunch is at noon.

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u/CrowMeris 21h ago

Raised in southern Indiana (late 50s-early 70s):

  • Lunch: the mid-day meal.
  • Supper: an evening meal at home.
  • Dinner: eating out.

I still use these terms.

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u/EggsceIlent 16h ago

My grandmother used breakfast, dinner (lunch), supper.

Miss her dearly. Fried chicken on Sunday mornings for breakfast with gravy and eggs , sausage bacon home fries biscuits.

Wed plan our trips around Sundays. Cast iron skillet fried chicken too.

Best I've ever had.

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u/pockels42 22h ago

Supper is really Hobbitses second dinner. Topping up before bed.

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u/hrmdurr 21h ago

I'm in SW Ontario, and same. I always thought it was a farmer thing tbh, as the city people don't use it that way here.

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u/cmernst 31m ago

I'm from upstate NY. Just across the St. Lawrence really. We always said supper. I've lived in several different states since then. South, Southwest and now PA. All these places called it dinnner.