Air fryer jacket potato: 200C for 40 to 50 minutes
Oil and salt the skin, then air fry the potato at 200C for 40 to 50 minutes. After a microwave start, BBC Food crisps it in the air fryer for 10 minutes.
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Air fryer corn on the cob: how heat changes the cooking time
Kitchn air fries corn at 400F for 6 to 8 minutes for a light char. BBC Good Food softens it at 180C for 15 to 18, and foil stops the kernels drying.
A Tinder romance crypto scam took a UK chef's house deposit
Alexandr Gutu put £40,000 of his £42,000 deposit into a fake crypto account. A match who moves the chat off the dating app is the first warning sign.
Your UK pension moves abroad with you, but its rises may not
A UK pension keeps paying if you move abroad. The State Pension rises each year only if your new country is on a GOV.UK list, and tax rules change too.
A UK network is testing the old recipe for saving a language
A UK network asks if a language still needs a settled community, home use, job value and state funding. A UNESCO seminar urged cooperation and steady funding.
Concorde carried its last passengers in 2003. Nothing replaced it
Concorde's last passenger flight landed at Heathrow on October 24, 2003. Costs, noise and a fatal crash ended it, and no supersonic airliner has flown since.
British rule spread left-hand driving to a third of the world
Britain kept the horseman's habit of riding on the left, then exported it through empire, while Napoleon's conquests pushed the continent right.
The UK road sign system, barely changed since 1965
The UK's road signs were designed by Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert in the 1960s, and the colour, shape and pictograms they set have barely changed since.
The US doesn't use the two-quarter rule to call a recession
A private committee at the NBER makes the call, weighing jobs, income and output. The UK's ONS calls the shorthand a technical recession.
The Princess of Wales completes the Three Peaks, a royal first
Catherine, Princess of Wales, is the first royal to finish the UK's Three Peaks Challenge. She raised money for the Royal Marsden, which treated her.
UK has 47 working F-35B jets, and the next order is stalled
DE&S accepted the UK's 48th and last first-batch F-35B in March, but the next order waits on a delayed Defence Investment Plan.
Russell Howard launches a charity in his son Felix's name
Russell Howard and his wife, NHS doctor Cerys Morgan, set up the Felix Foundation for bereaved families. A comedy gala at the O2 on 8 February launches it.
UK hiring confidence is at its lowest outside the pandemic
A CIPD survey of more than 2,000 employers finds one in six expect AI to shrink their workforce next year, against 6% who expect it to grow.
A film tax credit can decide where a film is shot
A film tax credit refunds a slice of what a production spends, often about 20%. That refund can decide where a film is made, and places without one lose out.
Canada's and Britain's new wealth funds run on debt, not surplus
The Canada Strong Fund and Britain's National Wealth Fund run on borrowed money, where Norway's runs on oil. Critics call Canada's a costly bet.
Richard O'Sullivan, star of Man About the House, dies at 82
The actor played Robin Tripp in Man About the House and then Robin's Nest. His screen career began at eight, in the 1953 thriller The Yellow Balloon.
UK press regulator IPSO decides where a correction must run
IPSO, the UK press regulator, sets how prominent a newspaper's correction must be, in print and online. Rulings on The Sun and the Press & Journal show how.
A census counts everyone on one day, then checks who it missed
A census counts every resident against one fixed date, then a separate survey checks how many the count still missed, and where.
A combi boiler heats water only when a tap opens
A combi boiler connects to the mains and heats water the moment a tap opens, with no cylinder to fill, top up or wait to reheat.
Bletchley's Bombe cut Enigma's settings to about a million
Enigma had 158 million million million settings. The Turing-Welchman Bombe cut that to about a million, and helped Bletchley Park find each day's key.
How a breeder reactor makes more fuel than it burns
A breeder reactor turns leftover uranium into plutonium fuel. The US Department of Energy says recycling it could need 100 times less uranium.
A 1606 English law turned a foiled plot into Bonfire Night
A 1605 plot to blow up parliament led to a 1606 law making 5 November an annual celebration, which stayed on the books until 1859.
How a 1992 law turned Britain's polytechnics into universities
The Further and Higher Education Act 1992 gave 34 British polytechnics degree-awarding powers, ending a divide that had run since 1965.
The panopticon was designed so no one had to watch all the time
Bentham's panopticon put a tower inside a ring of cells. Prisoners could not see the watchman, so they had to assume someone was looking, at minimal cost.