You Can Make a Baked Potato in 12 Minutes With This Trick

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Everything is faster these days, including baked potatoes. Here's how to make the staple starch in under 12 minutes.

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Making a baked potato doesn't need to be an hour-long affair. And yet here we are, with generations of home cooks dutifully sliding a naked russet into a 400-degree oven and then just... waiting. Doing nothing. Wondering if there's a better way.

There is. And it involves a little teamwork from two appliances.

The microwave is fast but soulless -- it'll cook your potato in minutes and leave you with skin the texture of a wet paper towel. The air fryeris glamorous but slower to penetrate a potato's dense interior. Neither...

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