MN protestors #protip put 2 Idaho Russets in the oven at 420 degrees for 45 min, take them out and foil wrap, 1 in each pocket before you go out. Theyll stay warm for 3-4 hours even in this weather and you can eat em when you like. They used to send us kids out like this back in the 70s trust me.

January 23, 2026 - 14:39 UTC

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Thinking of Red Green going to a protest with an entire turkey dinner up his coat to warm his community
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You can shave off 35-40 minutes (if you don’t care about crispy skin) by microwaving them 5-10 minutes (depending on the size). Poke holes first. 😬

If you care about crispy skin, microwave first, then brush oil and broil the skins 3-5 minutes per side.

Also, light miso + sour cream = 🧑‍🍳😘
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Thanks for tonight's dinner idea.
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This is the generational knowledge inherited from Finns, Swedes, and Cornish miners. I hope there's some good pasty lore being passed around, too.
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Ya im norwegian mostly us tho
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Restaurant Quality advice.
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some disagreement on here about whether to put the foil on before or after baking. I put it on after, as you want the steam to cook out some before it goes in your pocket but to each her own
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My baked potato lore agrees with yours. I do coat the potatoes in olive oil before baking, makes the skins a bit crispy which I like.
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I think technically the more moisture you retain in the potato the greater the thermal mass and should stay warm for longer. Might be worth a right hand-left hand trial? Stay safe out there.
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also you can tie a baked potato to that possum in your garage and shove him back outside
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save the foil it can go many times
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Hope that's not a protesting protip thats a potato protip
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wait do you foil wrap them before baking them, or after?
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Before! Stab a few holes in them too, before baking, so they don't explode.

Works with all sorts of potatoes.
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depends on if you have foil around or use yesterdays
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This is so Little House on the Prairie-coded
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I'm almost positive this was in one of the Little House on the Prairie books
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Pro tip👍👍
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As a Canadian growing up in an environment where -40C met -40F frequently, I wish I had my mitts stuffed with hot potatoes. I wonder if sweet potatoes wouldn’t be better? I live in Asia now and it’s cold-ish, there are street vendors roasting sweet potatoes and it smells divine.
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Sticky tho i wouldnt but thats just me
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@darthbluesky.bsky.social would love this.
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alternatively, Pasties, that's the way we used to do it
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wait the things on strippers to get around the no nudity laws?

well, it might warm me up, so I guess I'll allow it.
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what a mess tho
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OMG would love to have a good pasty from Wisconsin.
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I grew up here in the 70s and I've never heard of this. It's genius. My parents had been raised in slightly warmer climes, though, which I will blame for this lack of institutional knowledge.
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tell them I'm sorry they should have come over
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And if they get cold, we can always throw them at Greg Bovino.
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I see you grew up in the 70s too, in spirit if not in reality.
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seconded- my dad said that's what they did in the thirties in ND.
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hard boiled eggs work too ❤️
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Long, potato-based history in Minnesota.
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yeah when Norwegians were the new immigrants they used to call them "potato-eaters" as a disparagement
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@sweetbabette.bsky.social !
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My hero!!!
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There's a lovely poem called The Clever Potato about a little boy with cold hands whose mother shows him this trick, but sadly it isn't anywhere online.
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Makes me think of Monty Python's Four Yorkshiremen bit, except for upper Midwesterners, e.g.,

"Potatoes?! You 'ad potatoes?! We in Wisconsin used to *dreeeeeam* of 'avin' potaoes."
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you had dreams? we dreamed of having dreams. we had brief visual disturbances due to the blizzard. if we were lucky.
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Excellent! I knew this once, but I'd forgotten the magic of baked potatoes. Please consider pinning this excellent advice!
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#spudsky
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Sweeeeet!
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Me at the protest
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Best of all: this is a TardigraveFriendly™️ strategy!
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