May 2nd
2008
... a suicidal one decided to explode in our oven with a major BANG!
Any oven cleaning tips you want to share?
I love the oven thermometer! We have one right there in our oven too! :)
Theory: The water inside the potato expanded and changed into steam thus expanding its volume. For Some reason not enough water could escape from the potato and the pressure rose until the skin bursted.
Usually the Skin of a potato has holes and is punctuated allowing the steam to escape.
Es empfiehlt sich, die Kartoffeln vorher mit einer Gabel anzustechen. Aber das weißt du inzwischen ja wohl selbst ;-)
I've had that happen with an eggplant before! First a big *boom* and then a stringy mess all over the place. No self-cleaning oven feature on yours?
Whoa! No tips, but how surprising! The other potatoes even look shocked! Great pictures, btw.
[...] this just made me laugh. [...]
xD a potatoe that explode... i didn't know they are able to do that too. well, at least not all of your meal decided to blow themselves up so you still have something left to eat! ...and clean
maybe wrap them in a aluminium sheet?
I had to laugh out loud when I saw the photos! I always thought these kind of things only happen to me :o)
Have a auto-clean oven would be nice at this moments.
This was potato conspiration, something like an extremist potato, a suicide potato or somekind of rebelion.
I confess it made me laught, but what a mess...
Funny photos - couldn't you use the suicidal one for mashed potatoes?
I don't have oven cleaning tips but this made me chuckle because I have always been paranoid about piercing potatoes before baking them, thanks to the exploding baked potato in the bonfire in Farmer Boy that almost takes out Almanzo's eye!
Are these special potatoes that self mash? Amazing!
I admit I haven't had to deal with kamikaze potatoes before, though this is probably because I don't bake them whole all that often. However, if you want to avoid mishaps like this, you can pierce them with a fork. I've seen a celebrity cook on foodTV skewer them, and place them in the oven metal skewer and all. Apparently they bake faster because the metal skewer heats up, plus they don't "self mash." :-))
Cheers.
Apart from soap and water, I can recommend the professional oven cleaning firms that come around in a van. Just before we sold our last house we got our oven cleaned and it turned out really well - like new in fact. They just took the oven apart and dunked it in acid. I have absolutely NO affiliation with these firms by-the-way. By the looks of the picture soap and water should do the trick.
my goodness! but i love the image. so happy to see you posting more frequently again :)
Time for oven shopping! Oh, man that stinks - but happens to all of us. I have the exact same oven thermometer, by the way. Steel wool should help - and lots of scrub, scrub, scrub!
Just prick em with a skewer before you bung them in the oven. That normally works for me.
Awesome photos.
Soap and water works for me! I hate the harsh oven cleaners. God knows what chemicals you bung into your oven with those, that later evaporate around your food.
OH MY! i've never seen a spud do that! Thanx for the documentary.
I know it's gross, but I've used easy-off when I had a fire in my oven and had to use the fire extinguisher. It was a pain in the butt, but it worked like a charm.
(I've had this happen too!)
Woah, you caught the explosion in action? Crazy - hope my potatoes behave themselves!
You aren't alone.... I've pulled this trick too. Get the shop vac out, suck out the big stuff and then turn it on to self clean.