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    How To Preserve Potatoes

    So you’re in the grocery store being frugal and you notice that potatoes are on sale, but you know that if you buy too many – they will spoil before your household will eat all of them…

    Or, you are growing potatoes in your garden, and during harvest you have LOTS of them…

    If you don’t have your own root cellar and don’t want all those extra potatoes to spoil, here are a few ways to preserve them for long term food storage.


    Note: Potatoes are one of the highest calorie-per-pound garden vegetables (about 400 calories per pound), and are a great choice for the ‘survival garden’ (among other things).

    UPDATED: Additional method added (a sort of DIY root cellar)




    Tip: Complete Book of Home Preserving (from Ball)



    FREEZE your potatoes
    1. Peel the potatoes.

    2. Wash the potatoes.

    3. Blanch the potatoes (3 – 5 minutes.)Blanching: (scalding vegetables in boiling water). It stops enzyme actions which can cause loss of flavor, color and texture. Blanching cleans the surface of dirt and organisms,
    http://modernsurvivalblog.com/surviv...erve-potatoes/
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    I've been just putting them in the extra refrigerator, but they are still hard to keep 'fresh'.
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    Quote Originally Posted by juskom95 View Post
    I've been just putting them in the extra refrigerator, but they are still hard to keep 'fresh'.
    Root cellar.
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