Smoked Baked Potatoes

fully loaded salt crusted smoked baked potato topped with chives, cheese, bacon and sour cream.

These "crispy on the outside, fluffy on the inside" Smoked Baked Poatoes will rock your world leaving you why you make baked potatoes any other way.

Course Side Dish

Cuisine American

Diet Vegan, Vegetarian

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 4 hours

Total Time 4 hours 5 minutes

Servings

Calories 288kcal

Author Jason

Equipment

Smoker
Wood Chips

Ingredients

4 Baker Potatoes
¼ cup Olive Oil
¼ cup Kosher Salt

Instructions

Set the smoker up for 225°. Scrub the potatoes and dry off all of the water.
Drizzle olive oil to cover the potato and then cover with kosher salt so the entire thing is crusted. Alternatively, you want to simply sprinkle the salt, go ahead and do that.
Place the bakers on the grate and smoke for 2-4 hours. The range is all dependent on the SIZE of the potato. If you are using the potatoes from the 5lb bag, it will be closer to the two hour mark. Baker potatoes will take four hours (sometimes a little bit more depending on size) to smoke.
Remove when the potatoes are fork tender.

Notes

Potato Choice Size and Timing: When smoking these taters, just a quick reminder that the baker sized potatoes will take upwards of 4 hours and the regular russet sized potatoes will take about 2 hours.

Salt Crusted Alternative: If you are worried about the salt crusted, leave it off and just sprinkle with kosher salt like you normally would.

When is the Potato Done? Doneness can be tested by internal thermometer of 205-210 or by using the old fashioned fork test to make sure it's tender inside.

Cooking Time: For smaller russet potatoes, smoke for 2 hours. For the larger baker sized spuds, it will take up to 4 hours. They are thick, dense and packed with starch so it takes time.

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