I have never, to my knowledge, eaten a microwaved baked potato. Growing up, my baked potatoes have always been baked, for roughly an hour, in an oven. These are the only baked potatoes I have ever eaten, and I have difficulty wrapping my head around the idea that someone can achieve in eight minutes what has taken, over the course of my lifetime, an hour.
That being said, my girlfriend microwaved a potato this weekend in my very own microwave, and achieved the same result with which I am accustomed. I love her dearly, but I still prefer my baked potatoes to be oven-baked. That’s all I’m saying.