Help! How do I store potatoes?

Cinders2001

esio_trot wrote: »

I've taken to surrendering my fridge veg drawer and tipping the potatoes loose into that. They last twice as long that way. Takes up a lot of space though if you don't have a big fridge

Me too. In fact all my veg goes in the fridge.

meg72

lily_the_pink wrote: »

I am going to dig up my (hopefully) bumper crop of potatoes this week.

Any ideas on best way to store - I dont want to buy potatoe sacks as it will erase any economies I might have made by growing my own.

Thanks

Try your local chippy or market if you have one. Usually willgive you used paper potato sacks.

jcr16

i store mine in the fridge. well tbh i store all my veg in the fridge. never had a single prob.

Fizzydrink1807

Hi all

Just managed to source 25kg of potatoes for £6! Didn't realise they could be so cheap!

Now the question is how do I store such a large amount of potatoes without them sprouting?
I was thinking of just keeping them in the garage, but is there anything else I need to do?

TIA

Fiz

Pink.

Hi Fiz,

This thread should help:

Help! How do I store potatoes?

And this thread might give you some ideas for using them:

How many things can you do with potatoes.

I'll add your thread to the first link later to keep the replies together.

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smithkinson

So glad to have read that others store their potatoes in the fridge. I thought I must be going against some potato rule in doing so. I'm going to try putting them in a hessian sack in the drawer to help with the light. Now I just need to organise all my other vegetables!

MaggieBaking

I have a potato bag from Lakeland that I use. I forgot about some for a while and rather than going sweaty and rotten, they'd sprouted (and by sprouted I really mean it!!!)

Biggles

smithkinson wrote: »

So glad to have read that others store their potatoes in the fridge. I thought I must be going against some potato rule in doing so. I'm going to try putting them in a hessian sack in the drawer to help with the light.

I think you'll find it goes out when you shut the door ;-)

jascrawf

Can I store raw potatoes in the fridge? If I store them in my pantry they seem to go off quite quickly. I thought this might be because I have a small kitchen which is like a sauna when the oven is on and it heats the pantry too. I don't really have anywhere else that's cool, except the garden.

Thanks for any help

pigpen

I keep mine in there.. so long as they are dry they are fine.