A baked potato, also known as a jacket potato, is the edible result of baking a potato. Potatoes can be baked in a conventional oven, a convection oven, a microwave oven, on a grill, or on/in an open fire.

The day you bought your microwave oven home was a great occasion. With the user’s manual in hand, you entered the world of micro-cooking. Perhaps boiling water for a cup of coffee or tea was your first experiment. Maybe you cooked bacon, baked a few potatoes, or baked some apples for dessert.

Peel potatoes, slice lengthwise into two or three, then slice again into chips. Place flour and seasonings into a medium bowl, stir well.Add chips and make sure well covered with flour mix. Oven set to 200Celsius. Approximately 3 tablespoons oil in a roasting dish. Spread potatoes out in a single layer. Bake for 1 hour or until crispy golden...

Inspiration for the following list of dead literary figures came from Charles Bukowski’s poem "Beasts bounding through time," specifically the lines "sylvia [plath] with her head in the oven like a baked potato . . . "This morning for the first time in a long time the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart." —Franz Kafka, diary entry

The National Toy Hall of Fame is finally honoring the electric age of kids' fun. The Easy-Bake Oven and Lionel model trains joined classics Mr. Potato Head, the Frisbee and dozens of other electricity-free toys at the Strong-National Museum of Play's Toy Hall of Fame.

The classic Easy-Bake Oven and Lionel Trains were inducted today into the National Toy Hall of Fame---joining my old favs like GI Joe (I had the small ones), Lincoln Logs, Mr Potato Head, Tonka Trucks, etc...