You can but it is not necessary.
About 6 minutes if you wrap in cling wrap. Turn acter 3 minutes.
In the oven 1 to 1 1/2 hours In a microwave 8 to 10 minutes and they are just as good as if they were cooked in a oven.
A potato wrapped in paper will cook in a microwave oven, because paper does not block microwaves. A potato wrapped in aluminum foil would not cook in a microwave because aluminum foil does block microwaves.
Microwave it. Microwaves are your friend.
Cakes cannot be baked in the microwave. Baked goods require dry heat, which a microwave doesn't provide. Microwave ovens cook by generating moist heat, so everything cooked in them is essentially steamed.
In a oven 1 to 1 1/2 hours at 300 degrees in microwave on high for 10 minutes.Which ever way you cook it poke holes in it with a fork.
If you cooked it in the oven, it would take longer to cook than in the microwave. I think that is the only way the potato is affected.
It's best to cut it into small pieces first, then microwave the same as a potato, about 10 minutes.
The first thing you will want to do when cooking a sweet potato in a convectional oven is to preheat the oven to 375 and put the sweet potato in a baking pan. Cook the sweet potato for a half hour. Take the sweet potato out and stab it with a fork a couple of times. Cook the sweet potato for another half hour.
Baked recipes, all recipes, and southern food has some great recipes for baked potato soup. There are also some great videos on YouTube for potato soup where you can cook side by side and watch top tv chefs cook.
If you cook a potato in the microwave for 10 minutes, it is done. Putting it in the oven would only crisp the outside. If you want to do that, 10 minutes should do.
There's usually a cooking time on the label for both the microwave and the stovetop next to the nutrition facts.