Quickly cooking potatoes

[perman]

So my postworkout meals are basically:
1) Lean meat
2) Starchy carb
3) Veggies
And I just vary which meats, carbs and veggies to avoid excessive monotony. However I wanna quickly make the meal usually since I'm tired then, so I always default to white rice.

I prefer potatoes with cuts of meat, but all the healthy ways I know of making potatoes (boiling and baking) take 30-50 minutes. I'm excluding frying potatoes here, since that's unhealthy right?

Anyone know any hacks to quickly cook potatoes?

[quark]

Microwave.

[perman]

Microwave.

Elaborate with details please.

[mbasic]

hot air fryer

the wife got one of these, its pretty convenient.

you can make french fries, without deep frying.
you barely spray a teeny tiny amount of oil (avocado or olive) on them....almost zero oil.
It only takes about 20-25 minutes.

I do salt, pepper, and chili powder....I'd imagine there's other concoctions.

Could do just roasted potato cubes, or whatever....or skins I'd imagine.

[quark]

Microwave.

Elaborate with details please.

Cut into slices, cook until soft, or poke holes with fork, cook until soft. Season, add other stuff, as desired. Five or more minutes, depending.

Google "microwave potato" for lots of recipes.

[Hanley]

Microwave.

Elaborate with details please.

Yup. It's one of very few foods a microwave cooks beautifully.

Here's what I do with waxy potatoes: cut potatoes into quarters, put in a bowl with a little water (couple of spoonfulls), cover bowl with plastic wrap, microwave on high for ~5 minutes (scale for potato mass).

I then finish the potatoes by frying them for about 5 minutes. You could just microwave longer to desired softness.

For baked potatoes, I just poke fork holes in the thing, place it on a plate and microwave as is for 8-10 mins. Done. And better than baking.

[perman]

Thanks guys!

[Hanley]

Thanks guys!

Oh...use caution...the steam-burn threat is real trying to remove plastic wrap from a bowl of hot potatoes.

[KarlM]

Not really what you're asking, but I like to bake up a lot of potatoes at once, then store them in the fridge, still wrapped in foil. Then when I want one, I'll cut it up, and fry it with about a tablespoon of olive oil, salt and pepper. Have patience and you'll get the perfect crispy golden brown loveliness. Maybe 10 min total cooking time. The texture of twice-cooked potatoes beats anything you get from a microwave, IMO.

[omaniphil]

Do you have a pressure cooker? 10 minutes at pressure with small red skinned potatoes or Yukon Gold potatoes yield deliciously tender potatoes. Add some chicken broth, herbs and garlic to the pressure cooker for taste. Dont even need to cut them up, the entire prep time is about 1-2 minutes, cooking time is 15 minutes.

[Hanley]

The texture of twice-cooked potatoes beats anything you get from a microwave

Only one way to settle this: with fists.

[broseph]

I microwave a whole potato until cooked, quick brush a little olive oil and salt, finish in the hot oven.

10 minutes at 500F is enough to brown and crisp the skin assuming the potato is piping hot to begin with.

[cwd]

1) Put whole potato into microwave oven. Fork holes in skin optional.
2) Press "potato" button.
3) Remove steamed potato when the oven beeps. Time depends on potato size, scales linearly with number of potatoes -- use a stovetop for > 2.

If your microwave oven doesn't have a potato button, you bought the wrong model.

[KyleSchuant]

Oh...use caution...the steam-burn threat is real trying to remove plastic wrap from a bowl of hot potatoes.

I just put a plate on top of the bowl.

Of course, sliced potatoes microwaved are really easy to fry as chips... Just saying.

[Hanley]

Oh...use caution...the steam-burn threat is real trying to remove plastic wrap from a bowl of hot potatoes.

I just put a plate on top of the bowl.

I'll try it

[Wilhelm]

I know of these, but have never used them.
https://www.spudspikes.com/using-spud-s ... te-potato/

When i still ate potatoes, i would boil them a little, then fry them.

[Bartman]

I'll second the pressure cooker method. It takes a little time to come up to pressure but for ease of cooking it can't be beat. We use our Instant Pot almost every day.

[mouse]

+1 for the air fryer...

[BenM]

I air fryer them too when I want em quick.

Probably the best kitchen appliance I own (only got it recently).

[convergentsum]

For baked potatoes, I just poke fork holes in the thing, place it on a plate and microwave as is for 8-10 mins. Done. And better than baking.

I thought I knew you.