Short-Cut Potatoes: Bake Potatoes In Half the Time!
By :HipPressureCooking
Pre-pressure cook the potatoes while pre-heating the oven. Start-to-finish your potato will go from raw to baked in under 30 minutes!
Votes: 16
Rating: 3.88
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Course Dinner, Side Dish
Difficulty Easy
Browse Category Seven Ingredients or Less
Main Ingredient Potatoes
Prep Time 1 minute
Cook Time 10 minutes
Servings
4 people
Ingredients
  • 1 cup Water
  • 2 pounds medium baking potatoes (also called Idaho or "old potatoes") well scrubbed - about 6 potatoes
Course Dinner, Side Dish
Difficulty Easy
Browse Category Seven Ingredients or Less
Main Ingredient Potatoes
Prep Time 1 minute
Cook Time 10 minutes
Servings
4 people
Ingredients
  • 1 cup Water
  • 2 pounds medium baking potatoes (also called Idaho or "old potatoes") well scrubbed - about 6 potatoes
Votes: 16
Rating: 3.88
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Instructions
  1. Place the washed potatoes in the pressure cooker and pierce the side of the potato facing up with a fork a few times or poke each a few times using point of a knife. Then, add a cup of water.
  2. Turn on oven to 450°F so to pre-heat while the potatoes are pressure cooking.
  3. Close and lock the lid of the pressure cooker.
  4. Cook for 10 minutes at high pressure.
  5. When time is up, open the cooker by releasing the pressure.
  6. Using tongs, and being careful not to remove too much of the skin, place each potato directly on the middle rack of the oven (poked holes facing up) and bake for 10-15 minutes - take out the smallest potatoes and serve first. Then, turn off the oven and let the larger potatoes continue to bake using the oven's residual heat for another 5-10 minutes.
  7. Enjoy your crispy, fluffy baked short-cut potatoes!
Recipe Notes

Bake larger potatoes for 20 minutes in the oven.

21 replies
  1. DougandSue
    DougandSue says:

    I think i would cook potatoes longer in IP, after 10 minutes they were half done. I would probably pressure cook for 15 minutes. Jmo

  2. Danapp777
    Danapp777 says:

    I agree that I will cook longer in IP next time. After the IP and oven I still had to microwave.

  3. Beve
    Beve says:

    I agree – I cooked 3 potatoes in the IP then put them in the oven for 15, and finished them off in the microwave.

  4. Yesdnil0381
    Yesdnil0381 says:

    Even though a microwave is faster, when you enjoy a crispy skin of the OVEN, this drastically reduces the cooking time there.

  5. Mandirenee
    Mandirenee says:

    Excited to try this because i dont have a microwave and miss the ease of that and going into the oven to finish!

  6. Beth
    Beth says:

    I did two potatoes wrap them in tin foil poke the holes in the potatoes and cook on high for 17 minutes I did not put them in the oven at all and they taste as good as restaurant potatoes

  7. LisaPot
    LisaPot says:

    It took me 25 minites to cook 3 medium potatoes. What am I doing wrong here? The recipe book said it takes 13 minutes!

  8. Mveva
    Mveva says:

    @LisaPot Its not you. I did two potatoes at 20 minutes and still had to microwave. We don’t need crispy skins, so I didn’t put them in the oven. Next time I’ll do two potatoes for 30 minutes.

  9. WilliamSandoval
    WilliamSandoval says:

    This recipe doesn’t work. We kept the potatoes 20 extre minutes in the IP , and they still were hard. It is not until 30 minutes in the oven saved our meal.

  10. Pepperpoo
    Pepperpoo says:

    I did 4 large baking potatoes at once….I set the timer on 45 minutes and my potatoes came out perfect….small potatoes (8 max) I did them for 20 minutes and perfect results….I will never eat another microwave potato again.

  11. wild_dryad
    wild_dryad says:

    Should have read the comments first – 10 mins in IP wasnt long enough for large potatoes. Needed at least 30 mins in oven afterwards but will try again.

  12. Keogmama
    Keogmama says:

    Cooking “Baked” potatoes in the IP is my favorite way to cook them. I have done it many times. Sometimes with just a few and other times with a full pot. I always do 14 minutes on high pressure and NR. They always come out perfect.

  13. Instant Pot
    Instant Pot says:

    Hi Tkaled,

    This recipe was designed to reduce the cooking time needed for oven baked potatoes. It is great for those who like a crispy oven baked potato but not the long cooking time.

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