Where do you store potatoes?

[Tulipsi]

The only place thats worked for me has been in the veg drawer in the fridge, I've tried a cupboard, in a sack, dark cool places, they all sprout things within a couple of days.

I know the fridge isn't the best so if anyone has a foolproof way please share?

Thank you :)

I store potatoes in my garage
It's dark and cool
I store them on top of a wooden crate so the sack is not stood on the concrete floor
Works well for me

Veg rack in the kitchen

On my kitchen floor in a wire basket. I have just ordered some sacking to cover them and keep the light out as my potato bag with string on top and a zip at the bottom is past it's best.

I keep mind under the stairs cupboard in the dark, but potatoes do keep well in the bottom of the fridge. Unfortunately I don’t have room in mine.

Sack of potatoes in the garage, weekly amount in an old bag for life in a cupboard in the kitchen.

Also in the fridge, as you say.

Same, veg drawer in the fridge.

I just keep mine in the cupboard and chop off the sprouting bits - they're harmless, and as you say potatoes shouldn't be kept in the fridge.

Veg drawer in fridge. No alternative, unfortunately live in a storage sparse house.

In a cupboard, but I take them out of the plastic bag I buy them in and put them into a brown paper bag, so they are in the dark and they are not sweaty.

Garage in a paper bag.

I thought you weren't meant to keep potatoes in the fridge? Doesn't it increase toxins/chemicals or something.

Have never found anywhere that works particularly well for me 🤷‍♀️

I have a large bowl on my worktop for veg that don't go in the fridge, but even with a tea towel over the potatoes they go green if they don't get used in a week or so. Do cloth potato bags work? I'm wondering if I should try that.

In one of these in a cooler, darker spot of the kitchen. They still sprout but only a bit.

Veg draw in the fridge , I've tried all other options and they sprout too quickly

I have mine in a kitchen drawer in an old shoe box with the lid on - so no light gets to them.

And a really good reason to buy a pair of shoes or preferably boots to do get the box to do this

in a kitchen drawer together with the onions and garlic.
sometimes a pumpkin/squash ends up in there as well

@ThemilkybarsRonme

I have a large bowl on my worktop for veg that don't go in the fridge, but even with a tea towel over the potatoes they go green if they don't get used in a week or so. Do cloth potato bags work? I'm wondering if I should try that.

Don't put them in a bowl on the worktop! Light getting to them turns them green and then they're toxic. They need to be in a cool, dark place.

You can definitely just chop the sprouts off and eat the spuds, that's not a problem.

Under the sink cupboard I just cut the sprouts off they are harmless really the worst culprit for sprouting potatoes were Aldi

In the fridge.

I put mine in a cupboard in the kitchen, but to prevent sprouting put an apple in with them. It works!

Uncooked potatoes are best kept somewhere cool and dry, but don't keep them in the fridge. Putting potatoes in the fridge can increase the amount of sugar they contain, and lead to higher levels of a chemical called acrylamide when the potatoes are baked, fried or roasted at high temperatures.

Apparently keeping potatoes in the fridge isn't advised.

@UtterlyUnimaginativeUsername, the tea towel over the top of the bowl was meant to keep the light out. It's just not as effective as I'd like.

I'm going to order the potato bag @PattyPan linked to. That looks great.

In the garage , in the dark.

In a cupboard, I thought fridges weren’t good for starchy veg due to acrylamide