nanac

My sister went to a garage sale and bought a garbage bag about 3/4 full of "strips". Turns out that the strips were fat quarters or fat half yards pieces of fabric. I ended up with 26 1/2 usable yards of fabric, plus one microwave bag (for potatoes?).
Does anyone know the directions to use the microwave bag?

cjsews

Those at for baking potatoes in the microwave. They hold the heat and steam in while the potato cooks. I haven’t used mine I a while. Try cooking just shy of what you normally would and adjust from there

osewme

This site shows how to make a microwave potato bag & at the end of the you tube it has cooking instructions (at 6 min., 53 seconds). You can pause the video & read the instructions. Hope this helps you.

https://www.google.com/search?client...2asQW2sIWICA50

nativetexan

My microwave has a button for Potato. I was given an older potato bag and used that with no problems. gave it away later, wish I had not done that. just make sure it is all cotton!

nativetexan

https://www.sewsimplehome.com/2014/07/microwave-potato-sack-tutorial.html

https://www.patchworkposse.com/how-t...ve-potato-bag/

klswift

Just one cautionary note. We sell lots of microwave soup cozies, tortilla warmers, potato bags and the hot sock (rice filled warmers). It depends on what power microwave you have!!!! A power of 700 can take it 5- 7 minutes whereas if you have an 1100+, it will be half that time. If it did not have any instructions on it - start lower.

hray

I made some potato bags, and we found that they started to burn if you tried to do the cooking in one go. Yes, they were all cotton fabric, batting and thread. So now, if we use one, we cook for 2 minutes, let rest for a bit, cook for another 2 minutes, etc, until the potato is softened.

nanac

Thank you everyone for your responses. I love baked potatoes, but I don't always want to wait for an hour for the regular oven, and to me, the microwaved ones seemed more dry than I like.
I had not heard of these before but will try your suggestions to see which one works best. Guess I'm off to go buy some baking potatoes, lol

nativetexan

I will say I was in Colorado when i used my bag. Now down South at sea level, it may be different. same microwave wattage though. good luck.

Peckish

My grandfather was a fireman, and the husband of one of my closest friends is a fireman. I would never put a potato bag, soup bowl kozy, or anything made of any kind of fabric (especially if you didn't make it and have no idea what the fabric and batting content is!) in the microwave. It is just too risky, no matter what your wattage is, no matter what materials you've used, etc. I bake naked potatoes in my microwave all the time, it has a "baked potato" button and they turn out perfect.