Anyone ever have a baked potato explode? (kbin.social)

submitted 9 months ago by ArtieShaw@kbin.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Idle question. I've always heard that you need to prick the skins before baking a potato. The potential consequence for failure to do so is a catastrophic potato explosion.

Has anyone had this happen to them?

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[-] athos77@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

There are videos of this on YouTube and TikTok.

[-] renrenPDX@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Never. Never had to prick them either.

[-] Thisfox@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 months ago

Been practicing cooking for pretty much thirty years. Many many baked potatoes, never had one explode.

[-] ArtieShaw@kbin.social 0 points 9 months ago

Same here! Last night I was stabbing a couple out of habit and felt like the question needed to be asked.

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[-] rem26_art@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

It's never happened to me, but it happened to someone I knew in college. They spent a while cleaning the oven after that lol.

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