SC - re: digest 1681

[Marian Deborah Rosenberg]

Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 15:54:41 CEST
From: "Christina van Tets" <cjvt at hotmail.com>
Subject: SC - potato storage OOP??

Hello!  Someone mentioned hanging mesh bags of potatoes earlier, and I just 
wanted to ask:  do you hang them in the kitchen?  Don't they go green?  I 
usually keep mine in a hessian-lined crate, where they're covered because 
they always turn green when exposed to too much light, and I've read in 
various places that the green indicates an oxalic acid build-up.  If they 
don't go green, what's your secret, please?

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My parents have always kept the onions hanging in the mesh bag they came in and
the potatoes in a wire/mesh basket arrangement (it has three layers, my mom is
short, my dad hung it rather high 20+ years ago, we only use the bottom layer)
that I've also seen other people use for citrus fruits.

The potatoes in my parents kitchen have never gone greenish but their kitchen
doesn't exactly have much light (it's underground) and we go through potatoes
fairly quickly.

I just assumed it was normal to have potatoes (and some onions for ease of
reach) in the wire mesh basket thing, I've seen a few kitchens with the same
thing.
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