Easy Slow Cooker Baked Potatoes For The Win

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Let Your Crockpot Do The Work While You're Away

These easy slow cooker baked potatoes come out fluffy inside with perfectly seasoned skins — no oven required! Just rub them with oil and salt, tuck them into your crockpot, and let dinner take care of itself while you go about your day.

When you make baked potatoes in a slow cooker, you’re saving money in at least two ways. Baking potatoes like this is a great way to avoid heating up your kitchen during hot weather and a great way to come home to cozy baked potatoes when the weather gets cooler! A Crock Pot uses far less energy than an oven, even when cooking for several hours.

Why You'll Love Baked Potatoes In A Slow Cooker

You can make a whole crockpot full of baked potatoes in about four hours on high or let them cook for eight hours on low. Either way, you will get fluffy baked potatoes with crispy skins by following this easy method.

Ordinary Russet potatoes are starchy, which makes them ideal for the fluffiest baked potatoes. They are also inexpensive; a ten-pound bag was just over $5.00 today at Walmart. A baked potato typically weighs six to eight ounces, so that’s pretty cheap eating!

Scrub the potatoes thoroughly with a brush, then pat them as dry as possible to help the olive oil coat the skins and stick. Place a rack in the bottom of the crockpot. You can even crumple some aluminum foil for the potatoes to sit on. The purpose of his step is to keep the potato skins as dry as possible while cooking.

How To Make Baked Potatoes In A Slow Cooker

Drizzle olive oil over each potato and rub it in, then sprinkle a little bit of kosher salt all over them. This is what makes the skin crisp and yummy. You do not need to prick them; when the potatoes cook slowly like this, they will not explode.

Put a couple of paper towels on top of the crockpot before you put on the lid. This will wick away more of the moisture, so you'll have baked potatoes, not steamed potatoes. As the potatoes were baking, I added another layer of paper towels. If you zoom in on the picture, you can see the moisture collecting inside the lid.

Cook on low heat for 6 to 8 hours or on high heat for 3 to 4 hours, depending on the size of the potatoes. The cooking time may vary, so it’s a good idea to check them occasionally for doneness if you can.

The yummy baked potatoes are ready when they are tender and easily pierced with a fork. The low heat in a slow cooker is so forgiving if you need to leave them in the pot a little longer.

These baked potatoes in a slow cooker are wonderful with just butter, salt, and pepper, but a baked potato bar is always a treat! Let everyone choose their own toppings: shredded cheese, salsa, sour cream, bacon, chives, or taco meat!

I’ve found it’s really handy to have some baked potatoes on hand in the fridge for my husband and me. They keep well and reheat nicely in the microwave! Once you have a few extra potatoes, here are some other delicious things you can do with them:

1. Peel the baked potatoes and dice them into a skillet with butter, olive oil, or bacon drippings, and make wonderful country fries!
2. Peel and cube the baked potatoes and use them as a base for a potato salad. Add diced onions, celery, pickles, hard-boiled eggs, mayonnaise, mustard, and seasonings to taste.
3. Peel and shred the baked potatoes and form them into patties. Pan-fry the patties until golden brown on both sides. Serve them with ham and eggs as a delicious breakfast side dish.
4. Peel the baked potatoes and mash them with butter, milk, and your preferred seasonings until smooth and creamy. You can serve them as a side dish or use them as a topping for cottage pie or other casserole.
5. Or here’s my favorite way to use leftover crockpot baked potatoes! Make Loaded Baked Potato Soup! I’ve included the recipe for you here in a post called 'Spectacular Spuds: They're What's For Dinner,' a very old post from when I was just getting started! (Forgive the bad photos and writing, please!)

These are just a few ideas to get you started. Feel free to get creative and adapt these recipes to suit your tastes. Enjoy your slow-cooker baked potatoes!

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Yield: 8 servings

Slow Cooker Baked Potatoes

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A slow, easy, and hassle-free way to come home to perfect baked potatoes at the end of the day!

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 8 hours

Total Time 8 hours 5 minutes

Ingredients

• Eight baking potatoes, scrubbed and dried
• Olive Oil
• Kosher Salt

Instructions

1. Put a rack or crumpled aluminum foil in the bottom of your Crockpot to raise potatoes off the bottom of the inner pot.
2. Rub olive oil on each potato and sprinkle with kosher salt.
3. Place potatoes in the Crockpot.
4. Put a layer of paper towels on top of the Crockpot before you put on the lid to absorb moisture.
5. Bake on low for 6-8 hours or high for 3-4 hours, depending on the size of the potatoes.
6. Potatoes are ready when you can pierce them easily with a fork.
7. Serve hot or refrigerate and reheat as needed.

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