Kitchen

[AuntG]

Send him shopping for diamonds and you'll have a 10 carat beauty.  I would just store the bag in a cool place and they should keep while you work on using them up.

[house_cat]

@Carmie

@PinkyPetunia

I live in a townhome - not a lot of storage space. We have a one car garage, and it's rarely cold enough to leave food out there, though this week it would be.

[Carmie]

Is your garage a comfortable room temperature?    60- 75 degrees You should not store potatoes in the cold, they will get starchy.

[Pooky1]

a few weeks ago stop@shop had 5ld bags of potatoes bogo. i bought 4 bags. if you keep them in refrigerator they keep longer. were only 2 people and we will go thru them. and this week i bought another 10lb bag at bjs for 5.99.

[chickenbutt]

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pooky1 wrote:

a few weeks ago stop@shop had 5ld bags of potatoes bogo. i bought 4 bags. if you keep them in refrigerator they keep longer. were only 2 people and we will go thru them. and this week i bought another 10lb bag at bjs for 5.99.

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The only thing that might be problematic for some is that when you refrigerate potatoes it converts the starch to sugar.   It's probably not that big a deal for most, though.  

Usually, a cool place is good but it seems like the 'fresh' produce you get these days is not as fresh as it used to be.  I remember a time when I could put apples in the bottom drawer of the refrigerator and they would stay fresh for months.    Doesn't work like that anymore.  

Potatoes I can keep in a cool place (I don't refrigerate them) for maybe a week - at the most.  Sweet potatoes don't last that long. 

I can only surmise that most of the produce of these types is warehoused for much longer before hitting the store than it used to be.

[RedTop]

Outside of making a specific potato dish to freeze and reheat later, I would not waste my time trying to freeze your extra potatoes.  

As a root vegetable, potatoes are made for long term storage.   That 10 lb bag of potatoes will keep well for several months.   Take them out of the original bag, spread them out in a single layer in a cardboard box, and store in a cool, dark corner of your garage.   Never store potatoes beside onions.  

My trucker daughter just brought us 150 lbs of potatoes, that are stored near the back wall of our garage, where the inside temperature rarely drops below freezing.   They will keep well out there, and will be gone before the spring/summer heat in the garage is a problem.  

I also have 100 lbs of onions stored in the opposite corner of my garage.   Onions bruise easily, so if I find one starting to go bad, I chop it, seal it and freeze it.   I can't stand to waste food.   

[Ceramiclady]

When Laura Weathers was still on for Kitchenaid she was demonstrating the food processor that has the dicing attachment.  She said if you have potatoes that you need to use up just dice them and freeze them.  I do this and add diced carrots celery and onions with them and seal in food saver.  When I need a hurry up meal I use them as a starter for vegetable soup.

[house_cat]

@Ceramiclady

She suggested to dice them while they're raw?

I'll look into that.

Everyone seems to be saying that they should last a long time.. well, I don't know why, but if I keep them more than a week they begin to get spongy.

[Marp]

To keep potatoes from sprouting store them with an apple.  Apples produce a lot of ethylene gas and while the gas causes other fruits and vegetables to ripen too quickly it slows potato sprouting.

[house_cat]

@RedTop

Why shouldn't onions and potatoes be stored near one another?