Potato storage bag?

gemmaj

Hiya, have been looking at doing an order with Lakeland Ltd for a few bits but I am wondering whether I can do without ... possibly with your help?

Have had my eyes on a "potato bag" for a while - "keeps spuds fresher for longer, made from extra thick cotton..."

Does anyone know if these are worth having, and if so could I make my own?

Ta!
:beer:

helen81_2

Hi, I have a spud bag..got it from kleeneze ages ago and it seems to work fine, haven't had any potatoes that have gone soft yet.

Not sure how to make one but im sure someone will know!

aurorahelios

I've got one and I'm not terribly impressed. I find my potatoes still sprout, mainly I think because they sit in a warm environment as i don't have anywhere cool to keep them.

It is better than leaving them sweating in plastic packaging, but only marginally (if at all) better than leaving them loose and covered in my vegetable rack. I find a brown paper bag the best thing to keep potatoes in, seems to keep them fresh longest.

IMO You can save your money and do without, but if you really want one it would be very easy to make one.

Pink.

There is some mention of the Lakeland potato bag on this thread:

Help! How do I store potatoes?

Pink

gemmaj

Any hints for getting hold of paper bags? my supermarkets don't do them. Even my local farmer-veg stall does plastic.
I'd rather not buy them, would defeat the point! :rotfl: :rotfl:

Thanks all (and tg the thanks-button has reappeared!):D

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gemmaj wrote:

Hiya, have been looking at doing an order with Lakeland Ltd for a few bits but I am wondering whether I can do without ... possibly with your help?

Have had my eyes on a "potato bag" for a while - "keeps spuds fresher for longer, made from extra thick cotton..."

Does anyone know if these are worth having, and if so could I make my own?

Ta!
:beer:

I have one that I bought from Bettaware,I was very impressed as it does seem to keep the spuds longer. I live alone and often found that I was throwing out spuds as they had started to sprout beforew I could use them up.So pleased, that I bought another two for my daughters. I suppose you could make them with cotton and some string to fasten them with.My bag is lined with a dark material so the potatoes are in the dark when it's done done up

henhog

Hi- I've got the Lakeland potato bag and it's Ok - better than leaving them in the plastic but still not amazing. Mine isn't lined at all - it's just a natural coloured cotton and I would imagine it would be very easy to make one.

On the subject of paper bags, I get them from John Lewis - you can ask for them instead of plastic. HTH

susank

How about a redundant pillowcase with a loop to hang it up?

Miss_Behaving

I purchased a Lakeland potato bag a few weeks back thinking it would solve the problem of sprouty spuds - unfortunately there is little improvement, it just looks more stylish than a plastic bag! However, the coolskin oven gloves I bought are wonderful.

ChocClare

gemmaj wrote:

Any hints for getting hold of paper bags? my supermarkets don't do them. Even my local farmer-veg stall does plastic.
I'd rather not buy them, would defeat the point! :rotfl: :rotfl:

Thanks all (and tg the thanks-button has reappeared!):D

Do you have a Homebase near you? They do brown paper bags - like American grocery sacks. I'm sure they wouldn't mind if you took one or two -you might even buy a couple of reduced-price tomato plants (99p for six - can't be bad) to justify a handful of grocery sacks!

vivw_2

I have been wondering about these for quite a while. But at xmas when I got my Tescos shopping I bought one of their large black long life bags to put it in [ 40-70p]. As I was running out of storage room with all the xmas food, I put the carrots and potaoes in the bag when i got home and put in my utility room. The potatoes have kept really well in the bag....no sprouting or going green.
So now no need to buy a special bag ....I'm going to use my tescos long life black fabric like bag with a clip holding it closed at the top