Vegetable help

naughty_10382

Hope someone can advise me...

I bought a carrot, a courgette, an onion and 2 potatoes yesterday, and put them in our fridge in the garage. When i went to get a potato out this evening, I noticed that the courgette had ice on it, and i think that and the carrot have frozen. The potatoes seemed very cold, leading me to believe they too are frozen. One was ok once nuked in the microwave for dinner, but I am worried that if they thaw, they will go horrible, and since I don't plan to use the carrot and courgette til friday, and the potato thurs, I wondered if I could/should cook them up and then freeze them???

I am useless at this!!

djohn2002uk

I know nothing about courgettes but I don't understand why you think it necessary to put onions, carrots and potatoes in a fridge. I remember my Grandad storing potatoes all through the winter in an outhouse with sacks over them to keep the frost off. Carrots will keep for months just in dry sand so a few days doesn't hurt somewhere cool like the garage and I've kept onions strung up in the garage through untill they are used up around January for years now.
As for the courgette, I see no difference between it and a cucumber really which my wife does keep in the salad box at the bottom of the fridge but they never freeze. I think your fridge is set way too low.

naughty_10382

djohn2002uk wrote:

I know nothing about courgettes but I don't understand why you think it necessary to put onions, carrots and potatoes in a fridge. I think your fridge is set way too low.

Force of habit with the carrot - my mum puts them in the salad drawer.

As for the fridge being set too low - it could be but there is other stuff in there that hasn't frozen...

djohn2002uk

Don't forget the bottom is always the coldest.
And force of habit aint good enough:p if it's a bad habit.
Another thought. If potatoes are affected by the frost (and they are unedible if the frost gets them) then the fridge definitely isn't the place to keep them.

chick-chick

I put carrots, potatoes and courgettes in the fridge. My neighbour said they keep longer that way

djohn2002uk

You get British Potatoes and Carrots in the supermarkets, greengrocers and marklets all year round and they finished growing before now. Do you think they're going to be kept in great big fridges somewhere????

Churchmouse

djohn2002uk wrote:

You get British Potatoes and Carrots in the supermarkets, greengrocers and marklets all year round and they finished growing before now. Do you think they're going to be kept in great big fridges somewhere????

Call me stupid, by all means, but the answer is YES, I did actually think a lot of produce is kept refridgerated!!!!

foreverskint

up until last year I kept spuds and other veg in a brick outhouse............then the mice came:mad: So now it's the fridge for me.

I have to be careful where abouts in the fridge the veg are. Too far to the back of the fridge and they do freeze, even when nothing else is affected.

djohn2002uk

I have this vision of all those people who buy the big brown "Value" bags of potatoes from Tescos getting them home and putting them all in the fridge. :rotfl:

jcr16

omg the penny has just dropped .

i always put all my veg in the fridge. ( no not pot's. i leave them in the paper bag in the pantry) but i always thought all veg had to be kept in a fridge. but i've just worked out, when i buy it from a supermarket is it in a fridge ????? NO.

does it last longer in a fridge or is that just a myth ?

i don't really have anywhere to keep it but the fridge thinking about it, but i may transform something else so that i can use it.

sarahs999

In general anything will last longer if it's in a fridge. THe big supermarkets will only refrigerate what's truly necessary to keep their overheads down.Bananas don't do well in fridges, but as far as I know that's the only thing that should definitely be kept out. I don't bother putting potatoes or onions in the fridge though, but I do with carrots. They definitely last longer than if they're in my veg cupboard.