The price of a baked potato at a restaurant is stupid high. Unless you don't have an hour. Then the price is completely reasonable. It sucks. But if you have an hour you can make a baked potato. Two even. And make them very unhealthy with toppings.
Cost per person $1.01
I should have bought more potatoes
I have about 7 pounds on hand. You need some?
Can't say no to a good 'tato!
If you don't have an hour, you can make them faster. Microwave the potato for several minutes until fairly soft (poke a few holes in the skin first), then bake in the oven or airfryer to crisp up the skin and finish cooking it. Not quite as good as fully baked, but much quicker and less energy used. Also great for sweet potatoes.
Awesome for sweet potatoes!
Mmmm. Add some of those pickled jalapenos on there and I’d be happy
back when fast food was affordable I felt wendys was kinda the best of the chain places. when they had a dollar menu it had two types of side salad and a baked potato that came with sour cream and chives and chili with onions. you could have a pretty healthy lunch for 3 bucks.
I can't remember the last time I got a Wendy's baked potato. Probably more than 12 years ago. Probably the most "real" and least processed fast food item that ever existed.
Lemmy's potato weekend, may it replace canned baked beans and its added sugar
And make them very unhealthy with toppings.
I've been subbing in Greek yogurt for sour cream, and I no longer taste much difference. Some would call it blasphemy, of course. I've found that dried chives (unlike dried cilantro) work pretty well for sitchy-ashuns like this, too. Then there's a sprinkling of nutritional yeast and dried roman / parm, which... is a healthy but pitiful sub for that delicious-looking cheddar there, lol.
As for a fried bacon alt, luckily for me with my fridge still on the fritz, the local super recently put packs of uncured turkey bacon on sale, so I've been grabbing them up. $2.50 for a pack of 14 slices (3oz) where they're normally at ~$7. They store at room temp indefinitely, and kinda taste like a cross between fried bacon and jerky.
The image is enormous, so I don't want to paste it in:
https://godshalls.com/product/fully-cooked-uncured-turkey-bacon/
EDIT: Maybe a solar oven to help replace the fuel / electric cost of one hour of oven's use?
I haven't seen shelf stable turkey bacon. I could see some utility in that.
I'd like to do a solar oven but in my research most of the designs are incapable of reaching the temperature needed to bake much of anything. The only real option that actually works is a rather expensive large fresnel lens based one.
...incapable of reaching the temperature needed to bake much of anything.
I'm wondering how close it might get during the hot summers you have. Yeah, something to research...
rather expensive large fresnel lens based one.
An inverted lighthouse? That's interesting. Would look pretty cool, methinks.
Or maybe one-way tempered glass could work.
"boy dinner"
Wife dinner. She loved it.
OMG so high
I think British people call them jacket potatoes because they’re secretly wearing potato skin jackets
Don't they have too much flavor for British people?
Those weird fucks put beans and tuna on them.
Have they been reported to The Hague?
They ought to be.
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