You can make a baked potato like the Outback Steakhouse. It is not a mystery on how to get the lovely salt crust on the outside of your baked potato any longer. All you need is baked potatoes, vegetable oil, and some kosher salt. I'll show you how to make this restaurant favorite at home.
This is Stephanie Manley with copykat.com. I'm going to show you how you
can make a baked potato that's just like the Outback Steakhouse, with that
wonderful salty crust on the outside, so let's get started and solve this
mystery.
We're going to start out with baked potatoes, now use as many as you like.
Now I'm using some that are roughly the size of my hand. I'm guessing
that's about a half pound. You're going to need some kosher salt, which you
can buy at your regular grocery store. If you haven't tried it, it's a
great ingredient to use for salt, lots of flavor.
We're going to use a vegetable oil. It doesn't matter. You can use just
vegetable oil, sunflower, safflower, corn oil. I would stay away from olive
oil and peanut oil, simply