Potato is most favourable vegetable and every one love to have it in their food. Potato can be cooked in different ways. After the advent of microwave and oven, cooking of baked potatoes has become more popular. It is very simple to cook baked potato. It really gives a terrific taste after baking it. Once you will taste the potato after baking in oven you will find a unique taste which you get from normal cooking. If you have oven and want to bake potato then what are waiting for? Go and try it. First preheat your oven for about 50-60 minutes at 360 degrees F. While your oven is preheating, rinse your potatoes with water and do it gently to remove all the sand. Cooking oven baked potato is a very simple process.

No matter you have tried it before or not. Now you have washed your potatoes, take a fork or knife to pierce the potatoes six or eight times. It is essential for better baking process. This piercing of potatoes enables the steam to go out from the potatoes. It is really very interesting to cook the potato in oven especially baked one. You can rub olive oil or mustard oil on the potatoes with a brush. It will prevent the potato to burn. Now your oven is ready to bake. After preheating the oven, put potatoes inside the oven for 60-70 minutes. Do not forget to turn potatoes after each 15-2 minutes. It will bake the potato equally on each side. After completing the time set by you in oven you are required to check whether potatoes are properly baked or not.

You can check oven baked potato with a knife or fork. With the knife or fork pierce the potato. If your knife or fork will easily pierce into it then it shows it has done. While piercing it be careful because potato is hot and can burn your hand.  It is better to use oven gloves while using oven. Now it is a time to serve your delicious potato. Remove the potatoes from the oven. You can use creativity at this time. Yes! You can use any thing of your favourite for topping the oven baked potato. You can use some thing innovative which can enhance taste of the potato. For topping you can use cheese, sauce, chutney etc. Other interesting options are vegetables which you like to have.