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Baked potato

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Feeds 4 and takes 1:30 hours to prepare (1:15 in oven).

Procedure

Preheat oven to 450 °F (230 °C)

Wash potatoes and then pierce potato skin using fork at multiple places (20ish per potato). Cook them in oven for 30 minutes

Melt butter and mix it with fine salt.

Get potatoes out of oven, rotate, and brush skin with salted butter (1st time). Return to bake for another 15 minutes.

Get potatoes out of oven, rotate, and brush skin with salted butter (2nd time). Return to bake for another 15 minutes.

Get potatoes out of oven, rotate, and brush skin with salted butter (3rd time). Return to bake for another 15 minutes.

Potatoes should be cooked now (you can check with tootpick) so you can get them out of oven onto a plate. Squish each potato, cut it lengthwise, and use fork to fluff the insides a bit.

Mix sour cream with coarse salt and pepper and then place one spoonful into the cavity. Sprinkle with additional coarse salt on top.

Ingredients
4 Large russet potatoes
200 g Butter
15 g Fine salt 10 g if using salted butter
4 tbsp Sour cream
5 g Coarse salt
1 g Black pepper
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