I cooked baked potatoes with a ‘crisp skin’ and a ‘fluffy’ centre without using an oven (Image: Sophie Harris) Baked potatoes are super versatile and easy to make, making them a popular dinner or even lunch option. They are most tasty when they have crispy skin and fluffy inside, but this can be hard to perfect. I recently followed a BBC Good Food recipe which uses a microwave and an air fryer instead of an oven.

The recipe notes said: “Try baking potatoes in an air fryer to achieve a crisp skin with a fluffy centre. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.createElement('script');el.

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