A smart trick with extra fluffy results.

How To Smash Your Baked Potatoes

Yes, you heard me right.

Heres what Martha does.

A split image of a baked potato and Martha Stewart

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This also helps keep the potato as one neat little package.

Then, she keeps it bougie by loading up her smashed baked potato with creme fraiche and caviar.

Then I rubbed sea salt and olive oil over the potatoes, which helps crisp up the skin.

Thanks to my need for catharsis and incredible upper body strength, my first potato became a smushed mess.

But hey, I had thoroughly mashed potatoes with little effort.

You know I dont normally like potatoes, she told me.

But I love this.