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Am I the only one that does this? Baked roofing nail potatoes on the grill?
It’s LilBit’ fave, so I was just musing while they do their grill thing. Thought I’d share,
Ingredients are potatoes, kosher salt, a spritz of melted butter, 6inch stainless steel nails, and a $1 hair spritzer from Dollar store, foil.
First, prep! Tear off as many pieces of foil and stack them, melt the butter, pour butter into the hair spritzer, and here we go!
Potato , on foil, spritz, turn tater, spritz, sprinkle Kosher, turn, Kosher again and wrap up.
Inset nail into potato BUT NOT ALL THE WAY THROUGH! ( you’ll see why later)
Repeat as needed.
On a hot grill until taters feel tender at a squeeze, ( please wear a grill glove or oven mitt)
Take off grill. With both hands heat protected, grab tater and pull out nail, drop the nail in bowl of cool water. ( this is why you don’t put nail through, no stab wounds here)
What you will end up with, is a fluffy baked potato, and a crispy, salty peeling snack as well.
Because of the high heat,and butter or oil you spritzed, the nail moves heat throughout the whole potato instead of outside to in. The peeling takes the brunt to create a crispy skin, while the middle, will be perfect.
Oh, and it cuts the grilling time by about 40% .
And of course, wash your Taters!
Disclaimer: I tossed some fun stuff in here, but , this is the only way we eat baked potatoes in our Lil world.
I now return to my regularly scheduled day,
KozandLilBit
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