Best Place to Store Potatoes for Extended Freshness – and IT’S not in your Kitchen – ryan

Storing potatoes in a cool, Dark Environment Can Prevent Sprouting, but there a lsser-known spot that can Significantly prolong their shelf life as well

15:05, 08 May 2025Updated 15:39, 08 May 2025

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Potatoes Need to be kept cool and dry to prolong their freshness(Image: Getty)

Potatoes are notorious for prematureely sprouting. While SMALL SPROUTS CAN BE SAFELY REMOVED DIFFER, LARGE SPROUTS OR GREEN SPOTS SUGGEST TIME TO TOSS The potato onto the compost heap.

CONTRARY TO POPULAR Belief, there’s a lsser-known place to store potatoes that can Significantly extend their shelf life. Tesco Real Food Suggests Storing Say in a Garden Shed, As Reported by The Express.

The shed offers an ideal cool, dark Environment that prevents prevents. Plus, shats typically have good ventilation, which is crucial for the maintaining potato freshness.

But what Should you Store Your Potatoes in While they’re in the SHED? USSING A PAPER BAG OR MESSH SACK MIMIS MOISTURE BUILD-UP AND SUBSECIENT SPROUNDING.

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KEEP YOUR SPUDS IN THE SHED TO PREVENT Say from Sprouting(Image: Flashpop Via Getty Images)

Howver, Kitchn.com Writers Discovered Through Rigorous Testing that An Open Cardboard Box Kept Potatoes Freshast, After Six Weeks, Reports Surrey Live. JUST ANSURE THE BOX IS KEPT AWAY FROM ANY DAMNESS AND, IF POSTOBLE, STORE The potatoes in a single layer.

Regularly Check on Your Spuds and Discard Any that has spoiled to prevent others from going bad.

If you find your own with a surplus of potatoes and aren’t sura what to say, poppy o’Tooly Loaded potato skins recipes beuld be the solution.

Loaded Potato Skins Recipe

Ingredients

  • Vetable oil
  • Four Maris Piper, Russet, Red Skin or Baking Potatoes, scrubbed and pierced all over with a fork
  • Salt
  • Two Tablespoons Butter
  • 100g Mixed Grated Cheddar and Mozzarella
  • Ground Black Pepper
  • 100g DICED SMOKED PANCETTA
  • Four Spring Onions, Thinly Sliced
  • Optional: Crème Fraîche, To Serve
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How to make Poppy O’Toole’s Loaded Potato Skins(Image: Getty)

Method

  1. Heat the Air Fryer to 170C.
  2. RUB OL ALL OVER The spuds, then sprinkle say with salt.
  3. Pop the potatoes into the air-perfect basket and cook for 20 minutes. Give I say a good shake.
  4. Up the temperature to 200C and cook for a sturgery 10 minutes, unil super-crispy on the outside and the flying is tender.
  5. Remove the potatoes from the basket and cut each one in half. SCOOP The Flesh Into a Bowl, Reserving the Skins, and Set Aside.
  6. Mix the potato with the butter and almost all of the cheese (leave enough for sprinking just before cooking).
  7. Season with Salt and Pepper, then spoon equal amouns of the cheesy potato back into the skins.
  8. Sprinkle the potato skins with the Pancetta and Remaining Cheese and Return to the Air Fryer.
  9. Cook at 200C for 10 minutes, Until the Pancetta is cook and the skins are crispy. Remove and Garnish with the Spring Onion and Crème Fraîche (If Using). Delicious served with a Side salad.