not me, honest guv'nor
My girlfriend always thought that you put metal skewers through baked potatoes so you could take them out of the oven easier.

She discovered it helped them cook faster last week.

She was marking a child's book. She is a physics teacher.
(The Kwyjibo A big, dumb, balding North American ape., Mon 17 Oct 2011, 18:59, 7 replies)

baking nails
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 20:08, closed)

Does conduction really speed up the process?
I wouldn't have thought having hot spikes in it would make a potato cook any quicker?
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 20:47, closed)

saves mucho time (20mins easy)
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 20:54, closed)

Using a fork works a lot better than a skewer
Spreads the conducted heat out better inside the potato. Just don't do what I did the one time I employed this technique and immediately pull the fork out with your hand when you take it out of the oven.
(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 22:14, closed)

But a fork doesn't go all the way through the middle

(The Kwyjibo A big, dumb, balding North American ape., Tue 18 Oct 2011, 10:51, closed)

Surely,
that depends how hard you push it?
(robbersdog, Tue 18 Oct 2011, 12:47, closed)

That's what she said

( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Tue 18 Oct 2011, 22:25, closed)