Possessed Potato

So, I’m no Food Network Star, no head chef, except for my own kitchen, but I consider myself fairly knowledgeable in the kitchen. So to my surprise the other night, I had my second Idaho potato explosion in my oven. I promise I’ve cooked potatoes before, but my oven has something against me making twice-baked potatoes.

As I reached in to pull out the 3 potatoes I was using to make a dinner for a friend in Sunday School who just had a baby, I discovered this:

I have no idea how the potato skin, still 95% fully intact, was able to remove itself, and leave the main “meat” of the potato right where I had placed it an hour before. This baffles me to no end, but mostly frustrated me since I didn’t have any extra potatoes (much to my husbands dismay). Chris didn’t understand why I hadn’t purchased an extra potato in case we had an explosion issue to deal with! I love him!

So the second tragedy was when I borrowed potatoes from our neighbors, and the oven started smoking. Yes, I managed to also catch the oven on fire from the little bits of skin that had fallen below. Our house smelled like burnt oven for the next day.