# Baking a potato...quick, the oven's pre-heating!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baking-a-potato-quick-the-ovens-pre-heating/431942>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 1, 2008, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baking-a-potato-quick-the-ovens-pre-heating/431942 "2008-01-01T23:33:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![t-mobileguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@t-mobileguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-mobileguy)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2008, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baking-a-potato-quick-the-ovens-pre-heating/431942/21 "2008-01-02T13:27:28Z")

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Ok here is some free blackberry advice from your friend t-mobileguy.

No mater how much you normally cuss in your average text messages, DO NOT change you phones dictionary to include your more colorful words.

Because sometimes unexpected… sheet can happen

😃

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**Author:** ![coffinjumper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8baadc/32.png) [@coffinjumper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffinjumper)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2008, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baking-a-potato-quick-the-ovens-pre-heating/431942/22 "2008-01-02T13:34:55Z")

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At times like this I get to pull out one of my favorite comedians to quote from. 😃

“I like baked potatoes, man. I don’t have a microwave oven; it takes forever to cook a baked potato in a conventional oven. Sometimes I’ll just throw one in there, even if I don’t want one, because by the time it’s done…who knows? I’ll throw a potato in and go on vacation.”

- Mitch Hedberg

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**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2008, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baking-a-potato-quick-the-ovens-pre-heating/431942/23 "2008-01-02T13:40:14Z")

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Did you turn your oven off, or are you still preheating?

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**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2008, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baking-a-potato-quick-the-ovens-pre-heating/431942/24 "2008-01-02T15:15:02Z")

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[QUOTE=Otto]  
Maybe I’m just thick but I seem to be unable to locate an answer to the very simple question of how long to bake a potato. All the website’s I’m looking at assume that one is baking more than one potato. But I’m not; it’s just the one, about the size of a man’s fist. I’m heating the oven to 350 and it’s all wrapped in foil and ready to go in. How long do I bake it?  
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This has alredy been well answered but you might like this information. Unlike a microwave, the difference in time between baking one potato in a conventional oven and baking ten potatoes in there is small enough to be ignored. I usually figure on one hour at 400 degrees, for potatoes of a certain size, the size I generally have.

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