🥔 What Makes This Recipe So Good
Tired of baked potatoes that are cooked unevenly, with hard or cool spots peppered throughout the center? You’re in luck. This air fryer baked potato recipe is exactly what you need! With the air fryer, the potatoes are soft, tender, and cooked perfectly throughout. Plus, this foolproof method is hands down the easiest way to get perfect baked potatoes every single time. Baked potatoes are unbelievably versatile. They’re a great side dish for steak, chicken, and pork dishes, but they’re also tasty all on their own. Load them up with any combo of your favorite toppings (seriously, the possibilities are endless) and you’ve got a simple but delicious meal with minimal effort. Meal preppers rejoice – the air fryer is a great way to prepare several baked potatoes to get you through the week ahead. Just refrigerate the baked potatoes in an airtight container after cooking and reheat them in the microwave (or air fryer) when it’s time to eat.
👩🏼‍🍳 Chef’s Tips
Cook times will vary from one air fryer to the next, so be sure to check your potatoes periodically and adjust your cook time as needed! When I checked on mine at the 30-minute mark, they were still pretty firm. I ended up needing another 10 minutes (40 minutes total) before they were ready to go. Check yours at 30 minutes and then every 5 minutes after as needed. Make sure you poke ventilation holes in the potatoes with a fork before you season and cook them! It may not seem important, but those tiny little holes help the potatoes cook more evenly. They also let any steam inside the potatoes escape, which will lessen the odds of the potatoes exploding in the air fryer. Unlike baked potatoes on the grill, there’s no need to wrap an air fryer baked potato in aluminum foil before cooking. In fact, I highly recommend you don’t! For a really crispy potato skin, air fry them completely unwrapped. The air will circulate around the salt-crusted potatoes and crisp them up beautifully! Aluminum foil will just make the potato skins soggy, which isn’t ideal.
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