Best Baked Potatoes
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By Appears in Cook's Illustrated January/February 2016, America's Test Kitchen TV
We wanted a uniformly fluffy interior encased in thin, crisp skin—and we baked nearly 200 pounds of potatoes to get it.
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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS
To produce perfect baked potatoes with an evenly fluffy interior, we figured out their ideal doneness temperature: 205 degrees. Baking them in a hot (450-degree) oven prevents a leathery “pellicle” from forming underneath the peel. To seaso...
