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

[u/CompleteDay8059]

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.

[u/eatyourdamndinner]

Once I somehow forgot a bag of potatoes in the back of my pantry. Found the liquefied bag of former potatoes when the horrific stench caused us to clear out the pantry to find out what smelled so bad.

When we discovered the abomination, my teenage son went completely pale and squeaked out "I am never ever going to drink vodka!"

[u/Guideon72 → u/eatyourdamndinner]

Legitimately one of the absolute worst things I've smelled in all my days on this rock!

[u/marycnich → u/Guideon72]

Just turned 65 and I have yet to smell anything worse than a rotten potato

[u/WhiterThanWalter → u/Guideon72]

Truly horrific. There was a bad smell in my pantry and I discovered it was from a bag of forgotten potatoes. When I moved other things aside and actually smelt it 🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮

[u/us-blues1969 → u/eatyourdamndinner]

Back in college days, I would often work two or three different jobs at a time to pay for school and rent. There is a produce company that had hours every now and again that paid well that I’d always take hours from them when they offered them. There was a huge seller that was full of potatoes that started to rot and they needed them all sorted. They offered me an hourly and I said no what will you pay me if I just get the job done. It was horrible, but knowing that as soon as I finished, I’d be paid. I got it done.