Baked Potato Oven

The baked potato oven is a nifty oven that makes baked potatoes a snap! It comes in both commercial and home sizes, but the large commercial baked potato oven is the most popular. Commercial baked potato ovens cook large amounts of potatoes quickly so restaurant cooks don't have to tie up the use of main ovens, they can batch-cook potatoes and free up the main ovens for cooking entrees. Restaurants cook a huge amount of baked potatoes because they are a common and popular accompaniment to almost any kind of dinner, so while the entrees need to be cooked for different times according to what kinds and thicknesses of meats they are, the baked potato oven can mass cook potatoes and have them ready for many dishes.

A baked potato oven comes with a few standard features to make bulk potato baking fast and easy; multiple drawers allow you to cook batches of potatoes on many racks at once, and you can also use these drawers to cook other dishes as well, such as pies, cookies, hot dogs, and other foods. It is a multi-purpose oven and need not be confined to baked potatoes, though should not be used for cooking messy or dripping foods without a pan, as most baked potato ovens come with wire-bottom drawers or trays. It is a handy cooking appliance for many foods and is a fast helper in larger restaurants that must cook foods in bulk quickly.

Sizes vary, but most commercial size baked potato ovens will cook from a few dozen to a few hundred potatoes in a load per hour, and will have a warming oven that can hold usually about half or two thirds the number of potatoes that the oven has cooked. The baked potato oven can run on electricity, propane or gas, depending on type. Countertop and floor-standing models for restaurants are usually electric, and mobile baked potato ovens are usually run on propane tanks.

The mobile baked potato oven is a larger oven built into a food cart and has many accessories, as it is meant for catering temporary events held in parks, lots and yards. It is ideal for weddings, parties and corporate events wanting a food-cart atmosphere, and the mobile baked potato oven can be used for toasted sandwiches, pizzas, and other foods besides potatoes, on-site as people wait. It is not a common sight in America, where other kinds of food carts are seen at these events, but in Britain the baked potato oven - over there called more commonly a 'jacket potato oven' are seen everywhere food carts are seen.