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Microwave Potato Bag

A microwave potato bag is a good equipment to have around your kitchen is you like to cook potatoes. You can make your own potato bag and if you do, it can even be better than microwave potato bags that you can buy commercially. People use different materials for their potato bags and some of the are not made of the best materials possible.

microwave potato bag

Beware that if you put your microwave potato bag in the microwave for too long, it can burn and your microwave potato bag will be crispy and destroyed. Below is a picture of a semi- burned potato bag when leaving in the microwave for 5-6 minutes at high setting.

burnt microwave potato bag

How to use a microwave potato bag?
  1. Prepare potatoes in your usual way (wash and puncture skin)
  2. Put potatoes in the microwave potato bag and cook the usual amount of time, turning as needed.
  3. The microwave potato bag will get wet as it draws moisture out of the potatoes.
  4. Potatoes will taste more like oven baked as the bag draws out moisture.
How to wash the microwave potato bag?
  1. Just hand the bag up to dry when you are done cooking potatoes.
  2. Machine wash and dry when soiled.

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