You can eat an oven-baked sweet potato just like a regular baked potato, leaving the skin on while cooking it, then slicing it open and eating the flesh once it's cooked, ideally with all sorts of awesome toppings. It'll be perfect with just butter, salt, and pepper, really.
All you need is a baking sheet, a fork, and a conventional oven.
Pretty easy, right? But not too efficient, time wise. So let's try it another way.
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For this preparation, you will, of course, need an air fryer. I use (and love) the Bella 2.6 Quart Air Convection Fryer, which, like all air fryers, is actually a compact, powerful convection oven — there's no actual frying involved.
So that shaved off a solid ten minutes. Not bad, but we can do better.
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While it won't have quite the same consistency as a baked sweet potato, softening a bit around the outside and with the skin slightly damp, the finished foodstuff is still quite good and ready oh so fast.
Just be careful with all three cooking methods, as these tubers come out of the oven, air fryer, or microwave super hot.
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