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Originally Posted by Thasaidon
The best baked potatoes are those cooked in a cast iron coal fired kitchen range which was also used to heat the kitchen, cook food, and boil water for baths and washing clothes.. You could put some spuds in the oven and leave them as long as you wanted. It cost nothing because the range was kept burning every day, all day during the winter.
I was brought up in such a house and they were still common in the 1950s.
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Both my grandparents had polished steel coal burning ranges in there 'sitting/dining' rooms. An uncle inherited one of the houses and he was still using it when I last saw him in the mid 1990s.