You can bake potatoes in a conventional oven, or in a microwave oven. Discuss how they differ.?
Answer:
In a conventional oven, the heat is applied to the outside of the potato and slowly makes the molecules vibrate faster as the temperature rises. The outside is always hotter as the heat is being conducted from the outside towards the middle.
In a microware oven, the microwave energy causes all the molecules to begin to vibrate at approx the same time. The heat does not move from the outside inwards as it does in baking, but the temperature of the entire potato rises at approx the same time and rate.
Since it takes longer for the heat to travel from the outside of the potato to the middle (so it's cooked all the way through) than it does for the microwave energy to get the molecules vibrating at the same speed, the two types of ovens cook at different speeds and so the instructions are different for the microwave and conventional oven.
And everyone who answered is correct in my opinion, the potato baked in a hot oven is much better. The skin is crispy and the inside drier and mealy in comparison to the microwaved potato.
You can bake potatoes in a conventional oven, or in a microwave oven. Baking potatoes in the oven takes "40 minutes to an hour, depending on their size" in a 425o F oven, while in a microwave, the length of time to cook depends on how many potatoes you are trying to cook: 4 minutes for one, 8 minutes for 2, ... , a half-hour for 8. Hope this helped!
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a microwave you can cook an egg in 10 seconds
conventional about 45 seconds
i prefer the regular oven as opposed to the microwave for baked potatoes however, I would put the potato in the microwave for 5-7 minutes prior to putting it in the oven just to lessen the time in the oven...when you cook them in the microwave the skin tends to get hard and I prefer to eat the skin off of my potatoes
In the microwave oven, they always seem to come out rock hard. The taste seems a bit off, too. <--- From experience :P
You can't bake a potato in a microwave. The difference between a microwaved one and an oven baked one is in the skin. Baked, crispy, microwaved, soft and chewy.
in the oven it taste better the skin is nice and crisp. but in the microwave the skin is like rubber. ewh!
Potatoes don't bake in a micowave onion. They are essentially boiled due to the microwave heating.
Micorwaves cook everything essentially by heating the moisture in the food.
The difference between oven and microwave is the oven really bakes and provides a crispy skin and better flavor.
Microwave takes 10-12 minutes for one med size potato
Conv oven 1 hr at 450 deg F for med sized potato
the oven takes longer and taste better. the microwave takes shorter time and makes the potatoes taste like crap.
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