Loaded Twice-Baked Sweet Potatoes - Food Wishes 

Check out the recipe: www.allrecipes.com/Recipe/269177/Loaded-Twice-Baked-Sweet-Potatoes/

Remember it's all about the girth.

You are the Uncle Sam... of your double-crammed yam!

It's so, so nice to see savory recipes for sweet potatoes. Like many growing up, my only experience with sweet potatoes was the dreaded and thrice-accursed candied sweet potato served at Thanksgiving. Truly, an affront to all the senses. But when I grew up, and started cooking for myself, I got to try my hand at properly making sweet potatoes, and now I love them. Just keep those candied monstrosities away from me.

I just tried these today! I have the same feeling that sweet potato’s are too sweet by themselves. This recipe really made these potatoes SO Good!! Full meal by themselves. Thx for another great recipe Chef John

I was so inspired by this recipe that I decided to make this for dinner. However, I made one slight adjustment to the recipe by substituting all the ingredients for a bag of Doritos. It was great. Thanks John.

There's a famous family lore story on my dad's side of the family. My dad and his siblings (and most of their kids) *hate* sweet potatoes. So, one Thanksgiving, when they were kids, their mom (my grandma) wanted to make them eat sweet potatoes. My dad (about 6 at the time) was sitting next to her at the table, so she passed the sweet potatoes to him first. Once he got a good whiff of them, he got sick and barfed on the whole dish of sweet potatoes. Then, his brother and sisters cheered because he had freed them all from the horror of having to choke down sweet potatoes. After that, their mom (my grandma) never cooked sweet potatoes again. To this day (dad is 62) we still never have sweet potatoes when we have Thanksgiving with his side of the family.

Hey chef John, I have always been a pretty good home cook but with your tutorials I have become exceptional, the ideas I get from tour vids and incredibly if I follow you to the letter they all turn out perfect, also I like the humour in your vids and your imagination, my wife thinks I am full of great ideas, not sure I should tell her the truth

Chef, this recipe has become hugely popular with my family and friends for several years now. They are now a tradition. I'm making them for our company potluck next week

Made this for dinner. Absolutely divine! Will make it again soon.

Made these for dinner with a salad last week. They made an excellent midweek dinner. Nice and easy and could be prepped earlier in the day.

I LOVE YOU CHEF JOHN!!

Chef John this has become a Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter tradition. Thank you for this great recipe.

The VO in this is just perfect, you do fantastic work, sir

Totally with you there Chef John - the only problem with sweet potato is the sweetness. The fact you've addressed that alone means that I must make these at once! :D Thank you Sir!

Bacon on potatoes is always a good idea! Yummy Delicious 😋

I really enjoy your videos and humor! I’m becoming an even better cook because of you! Thanks!

this would be great with a giant butternut squash, one giant twice baked and loaded squash.

I similarly dislike the sweetness of sweet potatoes, but will occasionally try to force them back into my diet with cayenne and ground chipotle for heat. Looking forward to trying this recipe! Thanks Chef!

Never tried this with sweet potatoes before. Have done stuffed potatoes plenty of times though, with mushroom bacon and cream cheese being a firm favourite. Will give these a go if i can get a hold of some decent sized sweet potatoes.

Chef John is like the ASMR of food.

I'm totally adding this to my Christmas menu! Happy holidays!

I will be making this!

Another one I'll have to try

Those simply do look delicious John and I love sweet potatoes and will have to try this and I know you don't go on to mention something else you can do, but I think I will take what's left of those four tops and throw them in what's left of the grease from the bacon which will now be slightly spicy and fry them up crispy and have for an additional snack. Those potatoes made me want to reach right into the screen for one. I will also suggest these to my daughter as every year for Christmas she makes regular twice baked potatoes if she has Christmas or as a dish to pass that you take where you are going but I think both kinds would be great.

Definitely doing these for Thanksgiving...and Christmas...yum! We grew purple sweet potatoes this year so I'll be using those, they aren't quite as sweet as orange (hmmm, maybe I will by orange and have a few of both 🤔)...sweet potatoes though, but still yummy and and so good for you. Thank you!

I am so glad I found your channel, this is delicious !!!

LOOK'D GOOD!!!

Because you are, of course, the Jean-Claude van Damme of your twice-baked sweet yams!

Roasted garlic would be great to add also.

I love your channel ❤😊

Mmm... Sweet potatoes. 😋 These seem like a really tasty Thanksgiving side dish, by the way. Edit: I typed this before Chef John mentioned it as such, lol. Great minds think alike!

Yummy chef :)

Yum

This looks so goooooood!

OMG my uncle is a genius 👏🏻👏🏻

You could have saved a great deal of energy by putting the bacon in a cast iron pan (inside the oven) and let slowly extract its fat content and add the onion and peppers the last, WHILE at the same time baking your potatoes and WHILE the potatoes would absorb the bacon flavor while baked. And at the same time your cast iron pan would eventually be seasoned. The skin looked very clean by the way. It is edible. I wish you have added the skin - mostly in chopped form - inside the mixture.

Yummy

No to the bacon and the cheese. I'm a vegetarian and I keep Kosher too. But, I have found during my own experiments with sweet potatoes that cheese just isn't tasty on them. :) Love your videos though. (Edit: I smother sweet potatoes in hot sauce).

I'm deffo trying these :)

I share your complaints on the just a bit to sweet taste, great twist to counter that with the jalapeño and lime. Miraculously, I have every other ingredient in stock. Off to the store to pick up some plump sweet potatoes. After all, you are the Colin Firth of your root vegetable's girth.

on the note of normal potato recipes on sweet taters i have made the fries supreme from taco bell with sweet potatoes

Nice

Think you can do Semla next?

6:47 i'd call these canoe potatoes as they're shaped just like a canoe boat.

When making baked Aubergines for romainan Salate de Vinete i had one Aubergine explode in my oven. So ALWAYS piece the skin!

Yum!!

I think Im going to make this, but bake it in a casserole dish for Thanksgiving. I hate those marshmallow topped sweet potatoes.

My wife: "that's not a side dish" Me: "for Americans it is" My wife:"for Americans that's a salad"

Is it possible to prepare this the same way with normal potatoes?

It’s all about the girth 🍠😂

You are the John Wick of how you give your sweet potato a prick

For your next trick you could try thrice baking a potato.

Nice

"Well greased and glistening!" LOL!!!

*I want thanksgiving at chef johns T_T*

"It's all about the girth." -Chef John, 2018

Oooh, I just love getting a new Chef John recipe on Friday! Have your sauerbraten ribs braising for tonight with mashed potatoes. Praying for those whose house ashes and smoke are in our air here in San Jose 😥

Sure, this would make a great side, but I would eat this as a complete meal! Thanks, Chef! Ohh I was too quick with the comment.. you did also say paired with a salad. My apologies. Haha

Ah ha! I knew I was right, size DOES matter. Ty Chef John. Love your tutorials

Chef John try Mexican chorizo with sweet potato. The combination is good

Does Chef John have a side job of oiling bodybuilders? What are your hourly rates?

Your voice sounds like a rollercoaster!

I have tried sweet potatoes probably 3 times in my life and I wasn't happy with the taste, but with your recipe, I want to try again, Chef!

great Chef John I'll try this one. My grandfather called sweet potatoes Fart Roots 😜

Thank you, Chef John for a savory sweet potato recipe that looks absolutely delicious. I don't really care for sweet potatoes that are made more sweet with marshmallows or sugared pecans. So, it's nice to have more savory options.

Geez people complaining about the way he talks... Can't you see is doing that to be funny... Man some people are so lame...

_You are, after all, the old-school Winnebago of your Load Twice-Baked Sweet Potato!_

His voice Alone Brings me joy Oh yea and Nice videos 😇

If u don’t eat pork like myself you can use beef bacon or turkey bacon( which have less fat and grease that will clog your arteries )

I ran a small dinning facility in the army and my guys would forget to poke the potatoes once in a while and we almost always had potatoes explode, you don't ever want this mess

LOL Chef said Girth JKJKJK

Sweet potatoes ... fully loaded. Oh yea

The only way to compete with this... 3 times baked potatoes

I fill them with sauteed veggies and Blue cheese

Thrice Baked... but once isn’t the potatoes.

"it's not about the length, it's all about the girth" rip my sides

OMG! love it! i don't like the sweetness of the potatoes and you have made it so i want to them . they are very good for you . Thank you John ..

These will go lovely with barbecue pork ribs, yam.

Today is Cook a Sweet Potato Day! Thank you for sharing this sweet potato video. This looks like one I will defiantly have to try. I'll also be celebrating on my channel with a new sweet potato recipe and I am also I'm taking so time out today to learn some new sweet potato recipes!! I hope you get to enjoy a sweet potato today! Thank you for sharing! Happy #CookASweetPotatoDay

I had no bacon. Only tri tip from beef dip leftover. It actually works. I sautéed the shredded tri tip on my cast iron skillet with green onions and followed the recipe from there on out. Family loved it. I’m beginning to think sweet potatoes work for a lot of potato recipes. Thanks Chef!

That was some gay shitt yu said about them bodybuilders yo

Hey Chef! This is my first time commenting, so I’d like to start off by saying I love your videos! I definitely check your channel first before I make anything new. This is sooo close to a recipe I developed last year. Aside from the lime, the only real difference is that I used pickled jalapeños and added bit of sriracha. I do love the addition of the citrus though! It’s reassuring to feel like I have similar taste to a chef that I look up to so much lol. Thanks for being such an inspiration and continually putting out great content!

These look so delicious just as they are but do you have any suggestions what I can replace the bacon with in one of them for the vegetarian in my family? I think it is the salty savoury taste of the bacon that is a key part of these so I'm struggling to decide what would be a good alternative ingredient. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated. Thanks 😊

After all, you are the Elmer Fudd, of how you make your loaded twice baked sweet spud.

One point I never get is the lime juice.

Thank god I thought I was the only one👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽😊it’s all about the girth!

Show us how you cook a whole fuckin turkey.

Chef John! If you're looking for an interesting Southern dish, you should really try making chicken bog! It sounds weird, but it's so delicious. It's a dish native to coastal South Carolina, so a lot of people haven't heard of it before.

I just made these, and I have to say. These are, hands down, the best sweet potatoes I have ever had. I substituted green onions with regular onion and sharp cheddar with feta cheese and it was just AMAZING. Sidenote. Your Ziti recipe is the BOMB!

I love sweet potatoes. But I think I would've gone with BROWN SUGAR, CINNAMON. and maybe some VANILLA BEAN . But that's just me . And if you bake your sweet potatoes wrapped in foil the peelings are very tender and very delicious ..... but hard to stuff .

CHEF JOHN!!! WHAT DID YOU DO WITH THE BACON FAT?!?!?!? I'm not sure we can be friends any more!!

Chef John has great recipes, he also has modern "Foodie" disease..... where every recipe has to have peppers (Chipotle, Jalapeno, Cayenne etc) aka - too much heat massively added to it. There is NO reason for this other than he either has no sense to be able to taste complexity of the ingredients or he thinks every recipe should be given the "Taco Bell" treatment. I am surprised he doesn't add cayenne pepper to his baked goods and deserts. Oh wait... next month he will come up with a recipe for Jalapeno cheese cake. Adding a massive burning sensation to the mouth of anyone eating your food does not add pleasure or complexity... it just means you ran out of ideas of how to make something original and good, and decided to chuck in heat to make your recipe cool for hipsters with no taste buds. 90 percent of the food made by people cooking on this planet DOES NOT INCLUDE PEPPERS.... 80 percent of your stuff does, for no reason at all.

I don't know why I picked up sweet potatoes. My grandma would bake them, they would be like candy. So, I gotta try this. The bacon is what will bring it together. The onion and pepper will too. I might try this with some regular spuds too. Thanks for the video! Keep cooking, cookie

These look hums but we thought you were an up state, finger lakes fella. Which means you stuff sweet pots with a mash of the potatoes, baked apples or pears, craisins, sweet butter and maple. You can throw a little roasted garlic & cheddar in too. Crispy onion on top with a maple drizzle. Good for acorn squashes too. That’s the Cayuga double bake.

chef john always teaches me new things. like i didn't even know there was a spectacular side dish season.

I’m new to your channel. Do you take requests? How about a morning glory muffin recipe? Those would be awesome this time of year...or a loaded potato soup recipe? Something to add cayenne to, perhaps? 😉

Could you freeze these to reheat later? I've found it's easy enough to put steaks and chicken in freezer bags, zip up all but the last inch, vacuum out the air with my dust buster, and zip it shut before tossing it in the freezer. How do you reheat a frozen baked potato? This freezing method also works great for cooked dinner rolls. Just break them up into individual rolls first.

Making them now!

I love Chef John's inflection at the end of his sentences. I also just love Chef John.