where do you keep potatoes?

[charmkin]

what are those potato storage things called?

like a bin but not
or if not
where do you keep them?

I keep mine in the fridge and they stay fresh for ages in there.

Dark and cool cupboard.

in the tumble drier

In the fridge but if theres no room, they go in the bottom of a cupboard.

We keep a huge paper sack of them in the workshop (cold, dark) and then just bring in some when needed and store them in a big terracotta jar in the bottom of a kitchen cupboard. They still sprout though.

in the cupboard ina basket

In a box in the bottom of the fridge, with a single apple amongst them to stop them sprouting.

Does the apple work?

On Ready Steady Cook the other day they had two Potato farmers as contestants.

Both said you should never keep potatoes in the fridge because they actually 'shiver' and it spoils their taste.

I have this mental picture now of poor little potatoes shivering in the cold!

We buy ours by the 55lb. sack and keep them in the garage... but it is cold in there!

Yes the apple definitely works.

In a dark, cool kitchen cupboard (in a NE corner!)

helliebean - interesting.

I have trembling tubers in my fridge.

My guys are getting an appley chum!