Best Baked Potatoes for Two

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated January/February 2016

SERVES2

TIME1½ hours

Best Baked Potatoes for Two

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

To produce 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 season the sk...

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