potato bag fire!
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I have never had a potato explode in the microwave, white, red, or sweet potato. Ever. Only thing I've ever exploded was those marshmallow peeps and that was on purpose!
I do as previous poster - 5 minutes or so, out of the wave and wrap in aluminum foil to finish cooking.
Does a cotton bag makes the taste better?
In the winter, I bake them in the oven - the oven keeps the kitchen warm and saves on oil! Rub with oil, sprinkle with salt (oooohh bad!
) and the skin gets nice and crispy. MMMMMnnnnn when's dinner?
I do as previous poster - 5 minutes or so, out of the wave and wrap in aluminum foil to finish cooking.
Does a cotton bag makes the taste better?
In the winter, I bake them in the oven - the oven keeps the kitchen warm and saves on oil! Rub with oil, sprinkle with salt (oooohh bad!
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This thread reminds me of the late comedian Mitch Hedberg and one of his jokes... "It takes forever to cook a baked potato in a conventional oven. Sometimes I just throw one in there, even if I don't want one. Cause by the time it's done, who knows?" (OK, it's funnier if you hear it in his voice, he had a very unique delivery...)
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I had many types of cotton batting. I cut a piece of each and put it in the microwave to test it. The warm and natural didn't even get hot after 6 minutes. The 100 % cotton started to turn black fast. None of the batting lasted up to 12 minutes in a microwave. Some microwaves are higher wattage then others so will get extremely hot faster. I use the microwave bowls to heat food not cook it. 3 minutes is long enough to heat soup piping hot with the low wattage ones. 1 minute with the high wattage.
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So has anyone used the bag regularly? Am wondering now if I should make any? Would hate to give one and then it cause a fire, when I originally read a thread about it, it said all cotton was ok. I saw the batting with the elfin, and didn't buy it. Hope someone has had good luck and will share!
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I bought the special potato bag batting that is 100% cotton and followed all the rules (all cotton everything) and my sister-in-law had one of her bags catch fire - she sent me pics of the bag - it was in the seam line - my husband said maybe there was too much thread buildup? I don't know what really happened - however I had a friend tell me if you leave them too long in the microwave they will catch fire. After that incident I quilt making potato bags and I no longer sell them either.
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Recently I made microwave bowl holders for re-heating food. Used the special batting and have had no problems at all, but this makes me leery of giving some as gifts. My holders are basically a square with darts on the sides, so that it holds the bowl and you can remove it without burning your hands.
What I have heated in these doesn't go over 3 minutes, max.
What I have heated in these doesn't go over 3 minutes, max.
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