Smoked Twice Baked Potatoes

[gregbooras]

Smoked Twice Baked Potatoes

Ingredients:
2 Large potatoes (poke holes, rub with oil and then season with sea salt, pepper and dry roasted garlic).
¼ cup Half and Half (you can also use milk)
2 T Sour Cream
2 T Melted Butter
1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese
4 t cooked and crumbled bacon
Salt & Pepper
Paprika (optional sprinkle on top of potatoes)

I normally smoke the potatoes with my ribs for 5 hours. I make enough for dinner and then a few extra for the twice baked potato recipe a few days later.

For this recipe, smoke the potatoes at 235 degrees (with 2-3 oz. of wood) for five hours and then remove from smoker.

Allow the potatoes to cool and place in a sealed container until you are ready to bake your potatoes. Remove from the refrigerator, cut in half and then scoop out the insides. Mash the potatoes and then mix everything together. Place ingredients into the potato shells and bake for 30 minutes at 350 degrees in your oven.

 

[Barrel99]

Sounds good. Why not just mix it up, fill the potatoes and smoke until done...after the potatoes are cooked of course.

 

[swthorpe]

This is something that I want to try!  I like the idea of smoking the extra taters with ribs, too.  I was reading a recipe from Jeff Phillips where he does twice smoked potatoes.  He says to smoke them for 3 hours and remove from the smoker, let cool and dig out the potatoes.  I have my doubts about whether the potatoes would be cooked enough at 3 hours to actually dig them out.  Letting them go for the entire 5 hours seems more practical to me.

 

[gregbooras]

This is something that I want to try!  I like the idea of smoking the extra taters with ribs, too.  I was reading a recipe from Jeff Phillips where he does twice smoked potatoes.  He says to smoke them for 3 hours and remove from the smoker, let cool and dig out the potatoes.  I have my doubts about whether the potatoes would be cooked enough at 3 hours to actually dig them out.  Letting them go for the entire 5 hours seems more practical to me.

Normally in the oven I would go 425 degrees for 1 - 1.5 hours before the potato would be done and then you would dig out the insides and bake again for 15-20 minutes. When I did my potatoes with ribs about 5 hours was right, also this gives you away to have smoked potatoes later in the week.

Also I wonder if you did scoop at 3 hours and smashed the potato and then mixed and put back on the smoker, if it would be to smokey....
Greg

 

[swthorpe]

Also I wonder if you did scoop at 3 hours and smashed the potato and then mixed and put back on the smoker, if it would be to smokey....
Greg

I think so...this is what Jeff Phillips from smoking-meat.com suggests...3 hours on the smoker, dig out the potato, etc and then back on the smoker.  I am not sure, though, that the potatoes will be done enough at 3 hours so that you could scoop out the insides.  The next time I do ribs, I am going to try this out...let the taters go for 3 hours, remove and cool, dig out, mash and reassemble, and then back in the smoker until the ribs are done.