# Loaded Crack Baked Potato Halves

These are loaded crack baked potato halves and once you eat them like this, you'll never go back to making them the old traditional way.

- Total time: 30 min
- Cuisine: Italian
- Category: Snack
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 2 potatoes
- olive oil
- salt
- pepper
- Ranch seasoning
- 4 tablespoons butter
- Parmesan cheese
- 3 strips bacon
- green onions
- Cheddar cheese
- sour cream

## Instructions

1. Cut the potatoes in half.
2. Make cross-hatch cuts on the potato halves.
3. Lather the potato halves with olive oil.
4. Flip the potatoes over and apply olive oil to the skin side.
5. Season with a little bit of salt.
6. Season with pepper.
7. Add Ranch seasoning to the potato halves.
8. Repeat the seasoning process on the skin side of the potatoes.
9. Place four tablespoons of butter on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
10. Lay some Parmesan cheese over the butter.
11. Sprinkle more Ranch seasoning on top of the Parmesan cheese.
12. Place the potato halves face down on the cheese and butter mixture.
13. Bake the potatoes in a 450-degree Fahrenheit oven for about 30 minutes.
14. Place three strips of bacon into an air fryer.
15. Chop green onions.
16. Chop the air-fried bacon.
17. Add a little bit of shredded Cheddar cheese on top of the baked potato halves.
18. Add chopped green onions.
19. Add chopped bacon.
20. Add sour cream for those who like it.

## Equipment

- knife
- cutting board
- baking sheet
- parchment paper
- brush
- air fryer
- tongs

## Tips

- The crusted Parmesan cheese makes it perfectly crunchy.
- The Ranch seasoning takes it up about 13 more notches.

## Source

- Original video: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8gMSW5X/
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/cc2607d1-7b97-4cae-a0f9-676cb8090953
- Extracted: 2026-04-11

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