Storing potatoes & onions

blueberrypie

The blue bags you get cheaply from Ikea make pretty good storage for potatoes. They keep light out, let air circulate, are easily wiped clean and have strong handles for hanging them up so as to keep them off the floor/out of the way. One small one will hold the contents of a small bag of potatoes, or if you split a larger bag or sack into several small bags, it stops one potato going off from affecting the rest of the bag.

Al1x

waterlilyann wrote: »

I've got a question (I know it may seem silly......) but can you freeze potatoes? Been thinking about peeling and slicing/chipping them in one go and freezing them (raw) but didn't want to waste a load if it doesn't work! Has anyone tried this?

I tried this a few weeks ago.. chipped one potato then froze it. a few days later i cooked them from frozen in the chip pan and they tasted normal!

I'm planning on freezing a load as DH doesn't like peeling potatoes for chips (probably because i moaned at him once for peeling the skins to thickly! lol)

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I always peel chop and freeze my onions as i buy them when they are on special offer.I triple wrap them in poly bags then put in a lakeland zip lock bag in the freezer.this way I don't have an onion-smelly freezer.
I have a Bettaware potato bag that I keep in the kitchen its drawsting and very useful as its cotton made with a black liner.it holds a good 6-7lb of spuds and they keep well.If I find they are sprouting a little I will peel,mash and freeze them with ice-cream scoop sized balls which I can microwave as and when I want to.I also have a long tuppaware box in my fridge that I peel potatos into for the week every sunday and put in cold water so all the spud peeling is done out of the way for a week.I change the cold water in there every other day and the peeled spuds are fine and keep very well until needed.I have done this for the past 40 odd years and have never binned a spud yet

Primrose

Al1x - how are you peeling your potatoes? With a knife? If so, unless you're a skilled potato peeler it's very easy to remove half the potato as well as the skin! I recommend a Victorinox potato peeler. They're not expensive. We've used them for years and years and now wouldn't use any other device for peeling vegetables and apples. I keep about 3 in my kitchen drawer as sooner or later one always accidentally ends up being thrown into the compost crock with the peelings and ends up in the compost heap. However, I've dug one one of the compost heap before now, about 12/18 months later and find that it's still fit for purpose after a good clean. Now that's what a call a reliable product!

Primrose

We store our onions and potatoes in those freebie linen bags which various environmental groups always seem happy to give out. They're then hung up in the darkest spot in the garage and survive very well. I think that some of the storage bags which are specifically advertised for storing these items are a bit of a waste of money.

sarahsarah

Hello,I was wondering what the benefits were of buying a huuge sack of potatoes?

I've just been looking at the milkandmore website and my milkman can deliver a 25kg sackfor £9.99, this is probably more than I would pay from the fruit and veg shop etc but doesn't seem a bad price to me? The other benefit is that if I get them after I've paid my Jan bill on 20th that I wont have to pay for them till next invoice on 20th feb.. always better with money in feb with it being that little bit shorter lol!

There are only me and my 2 girls here most of the time so I am wondering how long they would keep for before they sprouted/went off. I am assuming they would come in a strong brown sack so that should help I think? We do eat a fair amount of potatoes though!

popxcore

9.99 for 25kg works out at approx 40p/kg

so buying a supermarket's 2.5kg bag at 99p would be the same

also chances are you'd waste a lot of the 25kg by not being able to use them before they went off

Desperate_Housewife_2-2

I looked into this before xmas and found that lidls spuds were the same price as buying a sack. Also you can buy them fresh. I find the sacks dont always last for long without sprouting. I used to do it but supermarket prices seem to have come down so its not worth it, neither with sacks of onions.

diluvsdiscounts

I usually always have a sack of potatoes in.I buy the unwashed one's from the farm shop and they cost me £4.
You get the odd one thats not great but overall I think it's well worth it.

otterspasm

I occassionally buy sacks of potatoes and pay about £5 a 25kg sack. There are 4 of us, me, hubby and 2 boys ages 6 and 3. We usually end up wasting about 2kgs as we can't get though them quickly enough but they are still cheaper. Also if I was more organised and made a load of roast potatoes to freeze we could easily use them all. Must be more organised lol...
I have also bought them in the past to share with a friend which eliminates waste entirely and 12.5kgs of spuds for £2.50 seems good to me.