Cooking

I love cooking, but my actual repertoire of meals that I know how to cook off the top of my head is actually fairly small.  To get around this, I have a bunch of cook books, and some favorite sites to search when I'm looking for particular recipes.  But sometimes I just need to know something very basic and I don't want to pour through them to find it.  Today's question was how to bake a potato in the oven.  I used to do this all the time as a kid.  I know I wrapped the potato in tin foil, stabbed it a bunch, and put it in the oven.  Don't remember at what temperature or for how long, though.  We switched to microwaves so long ago, it feels like.  But honestly I find microwaved baked potatoes much too bland.  So I found this site that covers it:

http://startcooking.com/blog/56/Oven-Baked-Potatoes

It also (interestingly) recommends not using the foil method that I grew up with.  Apparently you steam the potatoes that way, rather than actually baking them.  Who knew?