Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a awesome dish, mike's perfect baked potatoes. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Mike's Perfect Baked Potatoes is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Mike's Perfect Baked Potatoes is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

The perfect baked potato is crispy on the outside and pillowy in the middle. Cracked open and still steaming, it's ready to receive anything from a sprinkle of cheese to last night's stew. Prick the potatoes in a few places with the tines of a fork.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook mike's perfect baked potatoes using 15 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Mike's Perfect Baked Potatoes:

1. Prepare Basic Potatoes
2. Take Extra Large Idaho #1 Grade Potatoes [1+ pound a piece - choose fresh/firm potatoes without deep brown spots]
3. Prepare Chilled Bacon Grease
4. Take Fresh Cracked Black Pepper
5. Take Garlic Powder
6. Take Onion Powder
7. Make ready Sea Salt
8. Take Sheets Tinfoil
9. Get Potato Toppers
10. Get Salted Butter
11. Prepare Shreadded Cheddar Cheese
12. Take Fresh Sour Cream
13. Get Fresh Parsley [chopped]
14. Prepare Fresh Chives [chopped]
15. Prepare Chopped Crispy Bacon Or Bacon Bits [optional]

Here's a basic step-by-step for perfect baked potatoes every time. Top these great baked potatoes with butter and sour cream, or sprinkle with parsley or chives. They're great with just about any meal, especially a meal with steaks or chops. This perfect baked sweet potato recipe makes them a perfect base for all types of toppings.

Steps to make Mike's Perfect Baked Potatoes:

1. Preheat your oven to 400°.
2. Clean and chop vegetables of your choosing. Cover and refrigerate.
3. Fully clean and fully dry your Idaho #1 grade potatoes.
4. With a sharp knife - peirce your spuds three times at both ends and once in the middle. Or, you can use a fork to peirce them.
5. Place your spuds on a large piece of tinfoil. Shiney side up.
6. Smear your potatoes generously with cold bacon grease. Place back on tinfoil. You can use olive oil but, bacon grease definitely makes these better!
7. Sprinkle fresh cracked black pepper, sea salt, garlic powder and onion powder to taste on both sides of your bacon greased potatoes. I tend to go heavy on the sea salt! These are big spuds!
8. Wrap your potatoes up tightly.
9. Double wrap your potatoes tightly in another sheet of tinfoil. Again, shiney side up. A double wrap is more steak house style and steams your spuds more evenly.
10. Place potatoes seam side up on the center rack and place a cookie sheet on the rack underneath it to catch any potential drippings.
11. ● Bake for 1 1/2 hours. After that, gently peirce potatoes with a sharp knife in the center where you'll eventually slice your potatoes open. If the knife enters with ease - you'll know they're fully baked. If not, bake a bit longer until soft. ● Know that if you're baking more than 2 large potatoes - you'll need to increase your baking time by approximately 15 minutes.
12. ● Once fully baked - you'll have two options. You can either serve by slitting the tinfoil and potato - then squeezing both ends together to force the moist insides up and out. Fluff with fork. Serve immediately with toppers of your guests choosing. ● Or, you can do the exact same thing but, gently scoop out the insides with a large spoon leaving your shells fully in tact. Place all insides quickly in a bowl, mix in all of your toppers in and, gently place back into your potato shells. You may need to re-heat mixture [not tinfoil] in the microwave before plating. Garnish with fresh chives and parsley. Enjoy!

Adding sweet potatoes to your diet is an easy and delicious habit to pick up when you're trying to eat healthy—the vegetable is a total superfood, packed with vitamin C and fiber. Should baked potatoes be wrapped in foil? When making my baked potato recipe, I typically don't wrap them in foil. Making baked potatoes in the oven is so simple! Just follow these easy steps below to get started.

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