Directions for microwave bag use
 

My sister went to a garage sale and bought a garbage bag about 3/4 full of "strips". Turns out that the strips were fat quarters or fat half yards pieces of fabric. I ended up with 26 1/2 usable yards of fabric, plus one microwave bag (for potatoes?).
Does anyone know the directions to use the microwave bag?

Those at for baking potatoes in the microwave. They hold the heat and steam in while the potato cooks. I haven’t used mine I a while. Try cooking just shy of what you normally would and adjust from there

This site shows how to make a microwave potato bag & at the end of the you tube it has cooking instructions (at 6 min., 53 seconds). You can pause the video & read the instructions. Hope this helps you.

https://www.google.com/search?client...2asQW2sIWICA50

My microwave has a button for Potato. I was given an older potato bag and used that with no problems. gave it away later, wish I had not done that. just make sure it is all cotton!

https://www.sewsimplehome.com/2014/07/microwave-potato-sack-tutorial.html

https://www.patchworkposse.com/how-t...ve-potato-bag/

Just one cautionary note. We sell lots of microwave soup cozies, tortilla warmers, potato bags and the hot sock (rice filled warmers). It depends on what power microwave you have!!!! A power of 700 can take it 5- 7 minutes whereas if you have an 1100+, it will be half that time. If it did not have any instructions on it - start lower.

I made some potato bags, and we found that they started to burn if you tried to do the cooking in one go. Yes, they were all cotton fabric, batting and thread. So now, if we use one, we cook for 2 minutes, let rest for a bit, cook for another 2 minutes, etc, until the potato is softened.

Thank you everyone for your responses. I love baked potatoes, but I don't always want to wait for an hour for the regular oven, and to me, the microwaved ones seemed more dry than I like.
I had not heard of these before but will try your suggestions to see which one works best. Guess I'm off to go buy some baking potatoes, lol

I will say I was in Colorado when i used my bag. Now down South at sea level, it may be different. same microwave wattage though. good luck.

My grandfather was a fireman, and the husband of one of my closest friends is a fireman. I would never put a potato bag, soup bowl kozy, or anything made of any kind of fabric (especially if you didn't make it and have no idea what the fabric and batting content is!) in the microwave. It is just too risky, no matter what your wattage is, no matter what materials you've used, etc. I bake naked potatoes in my microwave all the time, it has a "baked potato" button and they turn out perfect.

I'm like Peckish. Cloth doesn't go into my microwave. I think there was a time that corn on the cob was being put into the bags, too. I'd rather leave the husks on and microwave that way. I'm not going to risk putting the cloth creations in there. Not that brave!

The danger of fire is always first on my mind when I see putting fabric in the microwave. Sometimes I use the microwave for potatoes, but use a plastic cover made for the microwave.

We use "bowl huggies" that I made, but to put the hot bowl into to carry (or cold, for that matter). We do not microwave the huggy itself.

Not crazy about "cooking" with fabric. I do use the bowl cozies to heat up stuff all the time and I love it. Yes, I put the cozie in the microwave, the purpose of the cozie is to prevent burning fingers. If you have to take a hot bowl out of the microwave and place into a cozie, that defeats the purpose. Never more than 2 minutes at a time, if not heated enough, 2 more minutes

I am with Peckish--It happened to us and I used all cotton--no fabric in microwave. On Martha Stewart show, she said after baking potato in oven or in microwave, to roll it around before cutting--that tip works, potatoes are so nice and fluffed.

Incredible. Congrats on the fabric purchase. I don't really know on the baked potato bag, but have fun with the new fabric.

I agree. My personal perfect potato is wash the potato, leave wet and roll up in a paper towel. place in bag. I usually use 2 medium potatoes at a time. Cook on high 4 minutes, let cool down, flip bag over and cook another 4 minutes. In most cases, it turns out perfect. I put a fork in one to make sure it's cooked all the way through. If still a little hard, I roll it back up and cook another minute.

Sweet potatoes turn out perfect too!! very soft inside.

The recipe that came with my baked potato & veggie bag says-- "Wash and dry your potatoes. !!!
Wrap each potato in a paper towel and place in the bag & microwave as instructed by your manufacturer, usually 5-15 minutes. Time will vary per microwave and the number of potatoes in the bag. Let the bag air dry. !!!"

I use microwave-safe bowls. They don't get hot. :thumbup: Or I use hot pads to remove a hot container.