Chef's 'life changing technique' that cooks jacket potato in 10 minutes 'quicker than oven or air fryer'

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Thinking about what to cook for dinner can be time consuming - but now you can cook one comforting food in just minutes - the humble jacket potato.Whether you top it with tuna, cheese, beans or another one of your favourites, one cook has shared how you can rustle one up in just 10 minutes.Home chef, Josh Elkin, shared his easy method on his TikTok page and has astonished his fans.

Proving that you can cook them in a microwave far quicker than the oven or air fryer, you're still guaranteed a fluffy baked inside ready for lashings of butter.To start off with, according to the Mirror, the self-taught chef washed the potato to remove dirt.

Once clean, he used a fork to pierce holes all over it. After this, he microwaved it for five minutes, before turning it over and microwaving for another five minutes.Josh then removed the potato from the microwave, sliced the top off - and voilà - it is fluffy inside.

He then demonstrated how to "evenly distribute" the butter throughout the potato.Sharing his top tip, Josh made diagonal cuts into the spud, not cutting all the way through, turned it to the side and made further diagonal cuts going the opposite way.He explained: "Then you end up getting this diagonal cut pattern.