Where do you keep your potatoes?

[catherinewho]

We get all our veg from a local farm shop so it all comes loose and I can't figure out where the best place is to keep the potatoes as we have a very small kitchen and space is limited!

So how does everyone else store your potatoes?

In the fridge.

In a cloth bag in a cupboard. My mum has a tiny kitchen though and she uses a vegetable rack, again with a cloth bag to keep the light off them.

search potato bags on lakeland.com. they have nice ones that should prevent sprouting

I just used the free bookstart bag

in the fridge cause its garaunteed (I can't spell that) dark

In the fridge. They do sprout eventually though.

bottom of the cupboard/pantry we get through bag a week so they never have time to sprout

In a cupboard which is in a NE corner so it's always cool.

I keep them in a dark cupboard in kitchen but they go green/sprout really quickly. So now I try to buy them close to when we are going to eat them - which is rarely.

For some reason I thought potatoes/onions weren't supposed to be kept in fridge?

bertiebotts so do I! I have 2 dc so 2 bags.

I didn't think they were supposed to be kept in the fridge either which is why I can't find anywhere to put them!

Thanks for the ideas guys

In a big open terracotta pot in the bottom of the dark larder cupboard.

If we buy a sack of them in the winter they are kept in an outbuilding and then we just top up the terracotta pot when its empty.

In the bottom of one of our kitchen units - it's an ikea kitchen and DH fitted a sort of open drawer thing. Keep onions, carrots etc in there too.

In the fridge most of the year as I don't have anywhere cold and dark. In the winter they are in the veg rack with a teatowel over the top to make it dark. When I can afford to re-do my kitchen/utility/dining "room" I will be making sure there is a cold, dark, dry place for my root veg!

Thank you for asking this question. Normally in the fridge but you've just reminded me my husband said he'd put a huge bag of them in the cupboard behind the pans as there was no room in the fridge. that was a week ago. Wonder if they're sprouting yet!