Baked Potato

Baked potatoes are a food item created through baking a potato in a furnace. Baked potato restores hunger points and 7.2 saturation points, equivalent to cooked chicken and slightly better than bread.

As no experience is granted for harvesting potatoes, and a cooked chicken yields the same amount of experience, cooked chicken has a slight advantage over cooked potatoes due to the experience bonus of breeding. However, since potatoes only need to be planted, are quickly harvested with almost no waste, and, unlike wheat and raw chicken, are currently not desired by villagers in trade, baked potatoes can be a much more efficient food source than cooked chicken.

Baking
Baked potatoes can be obtained by cooking the raw potatoes in a furnace with some kind of fuel.

As a food
A baked potato can be eaten, this restores and 7.2 saturation points.

As of 14w02a, only instead of 6 hunger points are restored.

Advantages

 * Baked Potatoes restore a good amount of hunger and saturation.
 * Potatoes can be farmed quickly and in large quantities.
 * Baked Potatoes restore the same amount of hunger and saturation as cooked chicken, but are easier to farm.

Disadvantages

 * Meats restore more hunger and saturation than Baked Potatoes.
 * In 1.8, Baked Potatoes only restore 5 hunger points instead of 6.