Crock Pot Baked Potatoes

Crock Pot baked potatoes are an easy and delicious way to enjoy potatoes without ever turning on the oven.

With no pre-boiling necessary, these easy slow-cooked potatoes are sure to become a favorite dinner or bbq side dish recipe.

Crock Pots are not just for main course meals. Crock Pots can be used to make many side dish recipes.

In the case of baked potatoes this handy appliance makes it so easy to make baked potatoes anytime of the year and will keep the house cool during the summer months when no one wants to turn the oven on and heat up the house.

We love to serve these easy baked potatoes with Easy Crock Pot Pulled Pork during the summer bbq season.

Best Baked Potatoes

I know I can't be the only person who bakes potatoes with a slice of sweet onion wrapped in aluminum foil.

Years ago one of my husband's friends introduced me to the idea. Only he would bake the potatoes in the coals of a fire pit. 

Adding a thin slice of sweet onion inside the foil will infuse the potato with just a hint of sweet onion flavor.

I prefer Vidalia Onions but you can use any type of onion you like.

I am partial to Vidalia Onions having lived in Vidalia, Georgia for four years.

P.S if it isn't an official Vidalia Onion it is not a real sweet onion.

If you don't like onions feel free to leave the onion out but you don't know what you're missing.

How to make Crock Pot Baked Potatoes

Making Crock Pot Baked Potatoes is a very easy way to make baked potatoes without heating up the house.

To make baked potatoes in the crock pot wrapped in foil, you will need a square of aluminum foil for each potato, butter, salt, ground pepper and a slice of onion for each baking potato.

Ingredients

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• medium Russet baking potatoes
• large sweet onion
• salted butter
• baked potato seasonings: salt and ground black pepper
• water

Directions

Prep: Wash and scrub the potatoes under cold water. Prick each potato all the way around each potato. Peel and slice the onion.

Pull off a large sheet of aluminum foil that is big enough to wrap around the potato about 1 ½ times. You will need one piece of aluminum foil for each potato.

Step 1: Lay one piece of aluminum down on a flat surface. Place ½ tablespoon of butter in the center of the aluminum foil. Place a potato down on the butter.

Step 2: Place a slice of onion on top of the potato. Put a ½ tablespoon of butter on top of the onion slice.

Season each potatoes with salt and pepper.

Step 3: Pull the aluminum foil up around the potato. Tuck the aluminum in tightly around each end of the potato.

Twist each end of the aluminum and fold it over the potato tightly.

Set each potato aside with the seam at the top of the potato as you wrap it. Repeat with remaining potatoes.

Step 4: Add ½ cup of water to the bottom of the crock pot. After all of the potatoes are wrapped in aluminum foil place them in your crock pot with the aluminum seam at the top.

Step 5: Cook on high for 3 hours. Check the potatoes by squeezing them. Do not pierce the potatoes with a fork. All of the melted butter will leak out if you do.

Flip the potatoes over and continue to slow cook until the potatoes are fork tender.

Crock Pot Baked Potato Tip

After about 4 hours (for large potatoes, 3 hours for medium potatoes) remove a potato, unwrap and poke with a fork to see if it is cooked through to the center. If not rewrap and return to the crock pot and cook for another hour.

Cooking time will depend on the size of the crock pot, how large the potatoes are and how many you have in the crock pot.

My 5 large potatoes were done at about 5 ½ hours. Smaller potatoes will cook quicker.

Serve immediately or turn the crock pot on warm until ready to serve.

To serve peel the foil at the seam away from the potato. Cut the potato down the center and fluff with a fork. Push the cooked onion into the fluffed potato. Top the potatoes with your favorite baked potato toppings.

Baked Potato Topping Suggestions

Baked potato toppings are a personal choice. Some people enjoy the fluffy cooked potato with melted butter, salt and pepper. Others enjoy a loaded baked potato with all of the toppings.

• butter
• sour cream
• shredded cheese
• bacon bits
• chives

Crock Pot Baked Potatoes FAQS

Expert Recipe Tips

• baking potatoes: Russet potatoes have the best flavor and fluffy texture.
• best slow cooker size for potatoes: an oval crock pot works best when baking potatoes in a crock pot. There is more room to arrange the potatoes in the larger wider slow cooker.
• adding flavor to crock pot baked potatoes: A thin slice of onion adds a delicious flavor to baked potatoes.
• wrapping with aluminum: tightly wrap each potato with aluminum foil to keep the butter from leaking.
• Adding water to the crock pot: When making baked potatoes wrapped in aluminum foil with butter, seasonings and an onion adding a small amount of water to the bottom will prevent any butter from burning that might leak from the aluminum.

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