Comments on: How to Store Potatoes

By: Bramble

Bramble — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:18:58 +0000

I’ve learned not to store potatoes in a sealed container unless you’re making vodka…

By: The rule of absolutes: Nothing is absolute, not even this statement.

The rule of absolutes: Nothing is absolute, not even this statement. — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:07:36 +0000

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By: Badbadivy

Badbadivy — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:17:36 +0000

Scrappy, it sounds like you have ideal conditions to store potatoes. As Heather said, not everyone has those conditions. I know that my garage is too warm throughout the fall to store potatoes and then it’s too cold once winter hits.

Also, it would take my family about 10 years to eat 50 pounds of potatoes, haha. Different strokes for different folks, I guess.

By: ScrappyQuilter

ScrappyQuilter — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:11:06 +0000

I don’t agree that buying large amounts of potatoes at once is false economy. We buy 50 lbs from a local farmer’s market in the fall and store them in a large plastic tub (the 18 gallon Walmart special) in my unheated garage. We don’t use the cover, we just lay a towel over the top to keep insects out. This amount lasts my family (2 parents, 4 teens) about 3 months.

By: chichimama

chichimama — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:40:27 +0000

Thanks! I had never heard the pantyhose trick before!

By: malia

malia — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:16:57 +0000

A man who works in my grocer’s produce dept once told me the pantyhose “trick”. I’m glad to know that he was definitely being helpful and not creepy! At the time, I wasn’t quite sure. He seemed to be sincere but, you never know!