Potatoes. No other place for it. Safe to eat?

[karadekoolaid]

I store mine in an old cloth bag, all covered up.
I'd say that, if you've got them by the water boiler, there's probably an inordinate amount of heat around, and that's not good for them.
I'd try and find a colder place without the hot pipes.
When I was a kid, we had an "outhouse" - originally for coal - and that's where the spuds went. My dad would run down to Romney Marsh (in Kent), buy a 50 kg bag and then leave them in the outhouse all winter long.

 

[Barriehie]

Potatoes from the outhouse...

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Potatoes from the outhouse...

I usually don't bother digging mine up until I actually want to eat them!

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Sprouting yes you wrote. Then you wrote green and/or sprouting no.

Contradicting?

not contradictory.

green and/or sprouting means = either green and not sprouting or green and sprouting. Green is the constant, sprouting or not does not matter - it's how it is said in the English language

any other colour and sprouting - yes *(remember I grow all sorts of colour of potatoes including red flesh, purple flesh and blue flesh as well as reg or purple or brown skinned

 

[WaterPixie]

I stored 3 bags of potatoes in the fridge. None have sprouted. So the fridge is a good place to store them?

 

[TastyReuben]

Potatoes from the outhouse...

Care to guess where we kept the butter churn? Yup, the bathroom, right across from the toilet, and when Mom was in the middle of a butter cycle, you were expected to work that dasher while you were sitting there doing your business.

 

[karadekoolaid]

So the fridge is a good place to store them?

If you've got room, fine.

 

[JAS_OH1]

I stored 3 bags of potatoes in the fridge. None have sprouted. So the fridge is a good place to store them?

Not according to the US food and drug administration.
Acrylamide and Diet, Food Storage, and Food Preparation

 

[badjak]

Just buy a smaller amount of potatoes at the time, then there's no need to worry too much.
Try to keep then cool, but no trainsmash if you only keep them a short while

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Not according to the US food and drug administration.
Acrylamide and Diet, Food Storage, and Food Preparation
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Yay, you've found a reason not to eat burnt toast!

I'll put a link back to here in a minute

Edited to add the link
https://www.cookingbites.com/threads/burnt-toast.29613/page-3#post-423107

 

[oldjanie]

I know I’m late to this, but, aren’t you supposed to store potatoes and onions separately or is that a myth?

 

[TastyReuben]

I know I’m late to this, but, aren’t you supposed to store potatoes and onions separately or is that a myth?

I’ve always heard/read to store them separately, but it seems most people (including me) store them together/side by side.

 

[Barriehie]

Onions don't last long enough to change much around here.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I know I’m late to this, but, aren’t you supposed to store potatoes and onions separately or is that a myth?

I have heard the same. We have the Hessian sacks with their names written on the side but both get stored in the same drawer side by side, in their bags

 

[karadekoolaid]

Onions on the upper shelf, potatoes on the lower shelf (covered with a bag)