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How do you store potatoes and onions? I have not found a situation I like in our home, and I'm curious what others do.
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keep them seperate! potatoes don't store near as long if onions are with them.
in the house.. current "in use" ones.. I have a bottom drawer for the potatoes in one built in counter.. and the onions go in the middle drawer of a free standing set of 3 drawers that I keep a KA mixer on.
Onions if I get more than I use fresh.. I chop and freeze.
Potatoes have a big cardboard moving box in the garage with several extra layers of cardboard to protect it from the cold of the cement floor.. keeps them cold, but not freezing and in the dark. They last for months out there.
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Ditto-- never store potatoes and onions together.
Here is the idea my mom gave me for onion storage: save all your pantyhose and children's tights with holes or runs in them.
Cut off the tops/waists, and use the legs to drop in the onion, tie, add another onion, tie, etc. Hang these up in your pantry or some other cool dry place. Then, just snip under the knot for one onion at a time. They last a lot longer this way!!
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Rosesinsummer wrote:
Here is the idea my mom gave me for onion storage: save all your pantyhose and children's tights with holes or runs in them.
Cut off the tops/waists, and use the legs to drop in the onion, tie, add another onion, tie, etc. Hang these up in your pantry or some other cool dry place. Then, just snip under the knot for one onion at a time. They last a lot longer this way!! |
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yup, this is how Julia Child stored her onions. i'd do it too except i keep forgetting to keep our hoses and tights and they're already in the trash before i remember. maybe now that i've typed this i'll remember next time.
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I transfer potatoes into a brown paper bag as soon as I get home from the store, and then I shove them in the back corner of the pantry, "stirring" them now and then. They last longer than they used to this way, but they still go bad faster than I would like. I would love to be able to stock up more when they're especially cheap, but we don't use them quickly enough...I'll be looking for suggestions here.
Onions I buy in large quantities when on sale, then chop, saute, and freeze in one-onion containers (old Gerber containers). I do this once every couple months.
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Great idea for the onions! Thanks! Just did it and it works wonderfully for the space!
My mom stored potatoes in our basement like Jodie described, but I just don't have space for that. Any brilliant ideas like the panty hose one for potatoes?
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We have a small room at the front of the house which used to be a bathroom (it was dismantled before we bought the house) that we use as a makeshift root "cellar". We have a darkening shade on the window and leave the window cracked open. On the house side of the door we put one of those draft-stopper things, so the cold air isn't seeping out, and so we're not trying to heat that room, too.
We keep potatoes in a bucket there with a piece of cardboard on top to keep it dark. Works ok.
We've also kept potatoes in buckets of sand in our basement. The only problem is that it's really hard to dig out the potatoes!
We keep our onions in big burlap bags. I think I found them in a seed catalog. We usually grow enough onions to last at least half a year or longer, and I don't wear pantyhose. 
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