A few months back my home church, Court Street Christian Church, did a really awesome Wednesday night community dinner of loaded baked potatoes, and it was a total hit! Since then, I have craved the yumminess that was that night. So one night a couple weeks ago I decided that's what's for dinner, loaded crock pot baked potatoes!! Mmmmmm, my mouth is drooling thinking about it again. I digress....the day I chose to make the potatoes was an unusually warm day for Washington, and I didn't want to heat my house up with the oven, so I went back to a website I had seen where you could make Crock Pot Baked Potatoes !! Genius, right?!
Photo from theyummylife.com
The website talks about baking many small potatoes, but I had bought 3 GIANT potatoes so I was unsure how they would turn out.
This was rather easy, I poked a few holes in the potatoes and wrapped them in foil, just as if I was going to bake them in the oven. Then I threw them in the crockpot, and turned that baby on high for 6 hours. About 5 hours in I checked them, and they were definitely soft, but the husband wasn't home from work yet, so I kept them on warm for about another hour and a half. When I final did take them out, they were .... PERFECT!!
As you can see, the potatoes turned out soft, but not overcooked. I actually think this may be my new go-to method of baking potatoes, as it doesn't heat the house up at all. I would call this a Pinterest WIN!!
I slow cook EVERYTHING. Best invention ever!
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