Baked Potatoes versus Jacket Potatoes?

@Esmay

because baked has replaced jacket in every day use where I live

So, do you put your 'baked' on before leaving the house, or do you still wear a 'jacket'?
I ask this because your post implies that the word 'jacket is no longer used AT ALL and has been completely replaced by the word 'baked'.

In my (chef) son's world, a baked potato has been 100% baked in its skin, in the oven, whereas a jacket potato has been cooked (at least partially) in the microwave. This is generally why cafes, pubs and restaurants state 'Jacket Potatoes' on their menus and not 'Baked Potatoes'.

I generally do 'jackets' because I start them off in the microwave for a few minutes to soften the centres and finish them in the oven or airfryer (with is basically a mini oven) for the crispy skin, but occasionally (if I've got time to spare) I'll put them straight into the oven raw, and bake them throughout.

It's a sad person who has to be snobbish about potatoes. Baked here.
Makes me hark back to the 60s/70s when it was common to say 'going to the seaside': one went 'to the beach'.

Interestingly, when I was in American and I ordered a jacket potato, the waiter zoomed in on this fact and said oh you must be English, he thought it was very quaint!

It’s so comical - jacket potatoes. What is that?? Are they cloaked in life preservers, puffer coats, shawls?

They are Baked Potatoes, people. Hahaa! It happens to be the newer terminology… time to shed the cutesy title.

And they’re made EXACTLY the same way.

Gundy they’re now cooked in a microwave or an air-fryer, so it gets even more complicated.
So skin-on covers all, though the truthful version of unpeeled potatoes -however and in whatever they are cooked sounds really unappealing.

Sennelier1 talks about potatoes being "baked" on the hob, really, if something is baked it should be in an oven. I'm questioning that but not seriously because now we have baked goods in an "air fryer", baked/jacket potatoes cooked or semi cooked in a microwave so not completely baked anyway. I remember back in the 70's talking to an American friend about jumpers, she looked a bit confused than turned to another friend and said what jumpers, we explained we meant what she called a sweater.

Mollygo. we obviously had a similar train of thought and posted at the same time.

toscalily

*Mollygo*. we obviously had a similar train of thought and posted at the same time.

🤣🤣🤣 Great minds obviously!

Mollygo you’re exactly right! Peel on potatoes are now made in various ways. I’ve perfected a microwave method that is actually palatable 😉 But it’s still the same baked version no matter what appliance you cook them in. No need for scarves for jacket potatoes.
I’m a potato 🥔 lover ❤️!!

Air fryers and ovens still make the best ever crusty, tasty baked potatoes.

How long do they take in an airfryer? How long if you start them in the microwave and then finish in the airfryer?

Thank you. I am still considering an air fryer.

I do mine for 6 mins in a microwave then 20 mins in an airfryer, soft inside with crispy skin.

As far as I am concerned, they are Jacket potatoes, whatever I am because that's what I call them!

Gwenisgreat

As far as I am concerned, they are Jacket potatoes, whatever I am because that's what I call them!

Well said!

Oooh! I must be so common!

I no longer know which is apparently "common"! Have we changed over on this one several times?

But if they are "baked" potatoes they surely have to be cooked in the oven... that is where things are baked.

So maybe, as someone said earlier, the [odd] items cooked - or part cooked in a microwave are the "jacket potatoes"?

Baked potatoes and jacket potatoes are the same thing. I think the original 'baked' potato (and nothing common about that at all) cooked in a conventional oven taking some time to bake, began to be called a 'jacket' potato when they were cooked in the microwave. Nothing beats the baked potato done in a conventional oven as the microwave cannot achieve this. A baked potato is a proper 'baked' potato but a 'jacket' potato done in a microwave isn't baked.

p.s. I retract my first sentence!

Who would have thought we could have three pages on the common jacket/baked potato.

Here's another question...

Does anyone wrap their potatoes in tin foil while baking? I do for about the first 30 minutes so the skin doesn't dry out too much.

And I did some in the air fryer on the 'bake' setting and it turned out nicely.

It's a potato that is baked in the oven, wearing its jacket. I have served them so often over the years, because most of the nutritional value is evidently directly under the skin. When I commented to DS that 'We are what we eat' during a lecture about his food habits, he retorted gloomily 'Well, in that case, I'm a jacket potato'.

We used to call them "potatoes in their jackets" so I suppose we shoud be thankful they're not referred to as PIT-J's these days!

Mine are baked in the ash pan of the fire, so tasty

grannypiper

Mine are baked in the ash pan of the fire, so tasty

Nope, according to them what knows, a baked potato has to be cooked in an oven I don't care what anybody calls them, or how they're cooked, as long as the skin is nice and crisp and they're drowning under a sea of butter and cheese....possibly a healthy salad at the side! And it should be a crime not to eat the skin!

I have always known them as jacketpotatoes
Maybe it's where you come from.