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Household Hints & Help

ShepKat

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2. if refrigerated

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Mon Oct 24, 2022, 07:06 AM

Oct 2022

more than 2 weeks, the starch turns to sugar. Leave them out and in a couple weeks they will revert back to starch. I've never heard of refrigerating them for the sole purpose of baking them

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Baking potatoes. Should I keep them in the refrigerator before using, or not? Nt [View all] raccoon Oct 2022 OP

Cooler spot, but not refrigerated IMO.. Same place I keep onions hlthe2b Oct 2022 #1

+++ JohnSJ Oct 2022 #3

Tomatoes same thing. twodogsbarking Oct 2022 #4

Preferably but the damned fruit flies have forced me to put them in the refrigerator.. hlthe2b Oct 2022 #7

I have heard that wine corks will get rid of fruit flies. twodogsbarking Oct 2022 #8

I read keeping onions and potatoes together isn't a good idea, so now I separate them. MLAA Oct 2022 #5

In the pantry, different placement, different baskets...NOT together hlthe2b Oct 2022 #6

if refrigerated ShepKat Oct 2022 #2

I knew they got weirdly sweet chowmama Mar 2023 #9