What is the best way to store potatoes and onions?

Question

If you know the best way to store these vegetables, please let me know...my potatoes keep sprouting before I get a chance to eat them.

Thank you!

Answer 1

Keep in a cool, dry, dark place and NOT together. I can't remember why, but a produce manager friend told me not to because it will make the potatoes sprout or rot faster.

Answer 2

The key is to keep them in a cool dry place, aired place like garage is better. If humidity gets to them they will start rottening.
If it is a dark place, much better as sprouts start growing after humidity and feeding on the light they receive as ordinary plants do.
I use open platic crates, I put one or two newspaper sheets on the bottom and then i place the potatoes or onions. The newspaper also will absorb any humidity.

Never put onions and potatoes together, unless you have no other way out. I cant remember why but had something to do with one of them expelling some gas that ruins the other.

If you need to keep them in the fridge it needs to be a dry fridge and the potatoes need to be stored in the crate for veggies, where the temperature is lower than in the rest of the fridge.

Good luck

Answer 3

To increase the life of your onions, try this: Cut the legs off a pair of pantyhose. Push the first onion all the way to the toe, and tie a knot . Keep going this way, with the knots separating the onions by about 2 inches until the leg is full. Hang in a cool, dry place and just snip off an onion from the bottom as you need it.

Answer 4

Yes, cool, dry, and dark.
Any of the three will cause them to sprout.
[Sprouting and green potatoes are poisonous]
If they are from your garden, keep them in the garden till you need them. That’s really the best way. Or you can dig them up, then keep them in a pile of dirt with some hay or whatever on top to protect it. We keep our sun-chokes this way too. Then we can just reach in the dirt and take a few days worth out and keep them in a plastic bag in the fridge with dirt. I have friends who also keep a huge sack of (non-organic) potatoes in the garage. It lasts them 8 months and they do not sprout. I wonder about that, since our organic potatoes will sprout very quickly (in a week or so) even in a cool dark place. Perhaps it’s the variety, but perhaps something is done to our friend’s potatoes to hinder sprouting. Makes me wonder.

Answer 5

My father was a farmer and always kept a number of large bags of potatoes in our basement in a dry cool area. Same with onions and a lot of other veggies that have a tendency to sprout. Good Luck.

Answer 6

Potatoes and onions should be stored away from each other. One gives off a gas that ripens the other.

Both should be stored in a cool, dry place.

I only buy potatoes as I need them.

I keep onions in a terracotta pot.

Answer 7

potatoes have pretty well been covered... cool dry dark place...

A trick for keeping onions, which keep best when well-ventilated, store them in a clean pair of pantyhose, with knots tied in between each onion, then hang in a cool, dry place. Just snip off below each knot when you need one.

Answer 8

A cool dry place. I like to keep my potatoes and onions in the garage.

Answer 9

I supposed you then keep them out of the refridgerator? Trying putting them in the fridge if you don't eat them right away.

Answer 10

I just put them in the produce drawers in my fridge -- and yes together, no problems.