Slow Cooker Jacket Potatoes

Name: Slow Cooker Jacket Potatoes
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 240 min
Total time: 245 min
Ingredients: 6 large baking potatoes; 2 tablespoons rapeseed oil; 1 teaspoon sea salt

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Slow Cooker Jacket Potatoes – try my easy recipe and you’re guaranteed delicious soft and fluffy spuds every time.
Yes, you can make baked potatoes in the slow cooker, it’s totally fuss free and only 5 minutes prep time. Plus, there’s no need to keep an eye on them – just wrap them in foil and leave to cook.

Perfect for busy weeknight dinners, lunch with your favourite toppings or as an easy side dish.

Slow Cooker Jacket Potatoes topped with cheese, sour cream, chives and bacon.

You’ll be amazed by how good Slow Cooker Jacket Potatoes are. You need only 3 ingredients, some kitchen foil and a slow cooker and you’re set to go. It’s so simple you’ll be cooking your baked potatoes in the slow cooker from now on.

I’ve been using a slow cooker for jacket potatoes for many years, starting when we lived in rural France. Our limited electricity supply meant always being aware of how much power we were using at any one time.

Slow Cooker Jacket Potatoes topped with sour cream and chives.

A slow cooker was a perfect low wattage solution for cooking whilst using other appliances. Since then, and not just because it’s economical, the slow cooker has become our favourite way to cook jacket spuds.

Visitors to the Kitchen Shed were always amazed to hear I’d cooked their baked potatoes in a slow cooker. But they were even more surprised when I would serve them Slow Cooker Crispy Roast Potatoes.

Halved potatoes topped with cheese, sour cream, chives and bacon.

What Equipment do I need ?

A shallow dish for oil.
Baking foil – Squares of aluminium foil large enough in which to wrap each potato helps them to cook evenly.
6.5 litre slow cooker for 6 jacket potatoes or 3.5 litre for 4 potatoes.
Kitchen roll – you need a couple of large sheets or 4 small sheets. These will absorb condensation so it doesn’t drip down into the slow cooker pot and ‘dampen’ your potatoes. As an alternative to kitchen roll, a clean tea towel works if it’s been washed using unscented detergent. A heavily fragranced tea towel will taint your slow cooker and its contents.

What Ingredients do I need ?

Large potatoes – a variety like Maris Piper, King Edward, Wilja or Idaho give the best results. I used Maris Piper but any potatoes labelled as ‘baking potatoes’ are usually reliable too.
Rapeseed oil / Canola – you can use olive oil if you prefer.
Sea salt – adds flavour to the skin but helps draw the moisture out of the potato for fluffier results.

How to make Slow Cooker Jacket Potatoes

Slow Cooker Jacket Potatoes couldn’t be any easier to make.

Salt, oil, foil and potatoes ready to be prepared for baking.

Give them a good scrub and a rinse to clean off any dirt and remove any eyes.
Prick all over with a fork or skewer to allow the steam to escape when cooking.

Dipping potato into a shallow bowl of oil.

Rub the skins with a small amount of oil and then rub in a little salt.

Wrap each potato tightly in baking foil.

Place potatoes foil fold down in the bottom of the slow cooker. Keep the potatoes in a single layer. I can easily fit 6 large potatoes in a 6.5 litre slow cooker.

Potatoes wrapped in foil in the bottom of the slow cooker.

Place 2 large sheets of kitchen roll over the top of your slow cooker pot and secure in place with your lid.
Switch your slow cooker on and leave to cook – times are detailed in the recipe card.

Slow Cooker pot with an unwrapped baked spud.

Cut your potatoes in half and fluff up with a fork ready for your toppings.

Baked Potato sliced in half and insides mashed.

How to serve

Top your jacket potato with your favourite filling, here are some of our favourites.

Halved potatoes topped with butter and parsley.

Butter
Sour cream and chives
Grated cheese and crispy bacon pieces

Halved potatoes topped with cheese, sour cream and chives.

Recipe FAQs

Is it cheaper to cook jacket potatoes in an oven or a slow cooker ?

Using a slow cooker instead of an electric oven for jacket potatoes will save money on energy bills. Even though the cooking time is longer, a slow cooker still consumes considerably less energy than a traditional electric oven.

How many potatoes can you fit in a slow cooker ?

I use a 6.5 litre slow cooker and I can easily cook 6 large potatoes. A 3.5 litre capacity slow cooker will cook 4 jacket potatoes. Just make sure you have a single layer of potatoes so they cook evenly.

Do they get crispy in the slow cooker ?

Not as such – the skin is not as crispy as oven baked but not as soft as when microwave cooked. They are more like the wrapped in foil jacket potatoes you might buy from a hot potato shop. The absorbent kitchen roll placed between the lid and the slow cooker pot helps deliver a more crispy skin.
We prefer jacket potatoes in the slow cooker because you never get overcooked leathery skins. If you really do miss a crispy skin, try popping them in the oven for 10 minutes at 200 C.

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