[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Sadly, as far as I know, in the UK, a jacket potato is a baked potato. They do do them rather differently from what I see around here. A longer cooking time with a high temperature start to crisp the skin and then a longer lower temperature to finish the cooking process.

See Classic jacket potatoes, Mary Berry’s Posh Jacket Potatoes or The Best Baked Potato? Try Our English Jacket Potatoes! for examples.

The last example takes about 2 hours 15 minutes in the oven but my kids loved it for the texture and very crispy skin.

The best way to bake a potato is in the air fryer. No way would it ever take 2+ hours and you save a lot of electricity as well. 40 minutes max and much less electricity.

Here's how to make air fryer baked potatoes with a crispy skin. https://www.apinchofhealthy.com/air-...baked-potatoes

One thing that's seriously lacking in the UK is proper baked beans. They have these tiny beans in a tomato based sauce. That's not baked beans. Baked beans need to be a brown color with molasses and other stuff and the beans are larger.