Best Baked Potatoes

Name: Best Baked Potatoes
Ingredients: , Salt and pepper; 4 (7- to 9-ounce), russet potatoes, unpeeled, each lightly pricked with fork in 6 places; 1 tablespoon, vegetable oil

Side Dishes
Potatoes

By Lan Lam ･ Appears in Cook's Illustrated January/February 2016, America's Test Kitchen TV

We wanted a uniformly fluffy interior encased in thin, crisp skin—and we baked nearly 200 pounds of potatoes to get it.

SERVES 4

TIME 1½ hours

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