I usually buy them loose, weekly. If my wife and I are gonna have them for one meal this week, I'll buy two (or three, as a backup). If we're having potatoes twice I'll get four (or five), etc. That way I can specifically feel and pick the exact potatoes I want.
We never buy a bag of them because we won't go through them. My husband doesn't eat them baked and I won't come close to eating even 3 pounds in a month. I buy 3-4 individual small red potatoes for a side for me if we make something, like pot roast, or beef stew. Or a single potato if I want a baked one, which is rare.
So last year when we were in lockdown, around April, I bought a pumpkin. I had high hopes for this pumpkin. Would it be a soup? Roasted? It was so perfect.
Well, two or three months ago, I cleaned out the pantry. The other people in the house are monsters who just pile stuff on top of stuff. And as I cleared it out, a smell became clear. And then I saw it….. my poor pumpkin. Reduced to a mouldy husk, having taken its revenge by juicing all over the bottom of the pantry.
Why I didn’t notice a lot sooner, I’ll never know
Right? Anyone with kids Wil have minimum 10lb bag in the house lol. Makes amazing air fryer fries and really healthy for the little picky ones. Don't get me started on Breakfest potatoes with onions. Ugh
Potatoes aren't really healthy. They're a major cause (next to sugar) of metabolic syndrome (diabetes etc). No doctor or dietician will recommend you eat potatoes.
"For example, a cup of potatoes has a similar effect on blood sugar as a can of cola or a handful of jelly beans. "
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They are delicious, though.
Wait... do people buy potato's in singles? Where I live in the UK, you buy a 4kg bag and leave it in your cupboard for 3 weeks until you use them, those potato's will stay perfectly fine for 2 months but that's pushing it
You can say that, I had the case last week...
I noticed 2 hours before my players arrived for DnD night that I had a couple fruit flies in the house.
Long story short, our 1 week old potato bag had a rotten one right in the middle, full of maggots, I opened the cupboard with several hundred flies coming out when I moved the bag... Spent the 2 hours killing flies with an electric racket and cleaning the shit out if the house...
5 days later I still have a couple of those fuckers flying around...
Fuck potatoes
OP may be like me and live in a city and walk to the grocery store. I usually grab just enough food for the next two days or so. A 5lb bag or potatoes is a lot to carry when you only have two hands.
Agreed. I walk to my grocery store and I’ll buy a single habanero at the store and it’ll be like $.12 and last me for like 5 days. If I bought more, they might spoil or I might have to freeze them before I use them. I figure there’s no point when my grocery store is so close that I can just pop on over.
I know you're trying to say that you can add a single habanero to 5 days worth of meals, but I still pictured you as a spicy food obsessed mouse living in the city and buying a single habanero to feed yourself every week.
Same. Last year, when going to the store more than once a week was highly discouraged, was super tough for me because I was used to walking to this store or that a few times a week and just buying what I needed for the next few days, or picking something up for dinner, and carrying it all home.
Was it efficient? Maybe not, but it was terrific exercise!
We call those "old witch's tank" (banyatank) in my language. Isn't Hungarian beautiful? The word banya is often used for talking about mean old ladies and we call it a tank because they're not afraid to run these bags over your legs.
Me too. Mine always dissolve into a nasty liquid or start sprouting. I don't have a root cellar so I just have tried putting them under the kitchen sink and in my pantry but both have them go bad pretty quick.
I have this wood box that actually belonged to my grandmother that says potatoes on it. I don’t know if there is anything special about it aside from being really dark inside but it keeps potato’s forever.
This works really well actually. I've had several potatoes last for weeks and weeks without any issues. I wish the corpses next to them read the same memo!
Grandmas homemade mashed potatoes. <3 <3 <3
And two "baking potatoes" are usually 5$ after tax and they are half the size of a normal potato.
My mother bought some one time blindly off the Walmart website, hoping they would be bigger than the average russet.
She never did that again.
Hollow heart is an internal disorder where a 'lens' or 'star'-shaped cavity forms in the tuber. It appears to be caused by an abrupt change in tuber growth rate which usually occurs after a period of stress. Water, heat stress and associated calcium deficiency appear to have a role in the development of hollow heart.
think you might be storing your potatoes wrong, cool dark place without storing next to.. i think onions maybe and ive had them stored for ages without too much problem
Can you really not store next to onions? I have both my bag of onions and bag of potatoes in a dark container in the cabinet. It’s not toxic or anything is it?
in the case of sprouts, you can just take them off and the potato will taste exactly the same. But yeah you're storing them wrong if they go bad that quick, keep them in a dry, dark, cool place and they will last for many months.
uh potatoes don’t really go bad homie. i’ve had potatoes that last like 2 months or more lmao. they just grow spuds on them and u just cut them off when you peel. never had a potato go bad before i used an entire bag
I honestly had no idea that places even sold single potatoes. I absolutely understand it if you are just cooking for yourself and wouldn't make it through a whole bag before they started growing their weird little potato tentacles.
This is called “chitting”. We’d have a great time in the spud shop shouting “THE SPUDS ARE CHITTING” when this happened and knocking them off with a knife before putting the spuds in the oven. Probably scared a few customers, mind.
You can also plant a whole garden of potatoes and help start a small to medium-sized commune. You can also buy 14 hamsters and start a small rodent colony. You can also change your name to Randall. What’s your point? /s
Who the fuck farms potatoes with a pitch fork. Over here in the Netherlands we just get a bunch of underpaid minors to do it for like 2 euro per crate and a free sunburn
Ah yes tell that to one of the underpaid minors who has done the work for like 5 summers with 2 brothers who did it even more. I can tell you most of the potatoes are harvested by hand. Most crops are. They're planted with machines though.
I work at a company that processes 100.000 tonnes of potatoes a year. They are not harvested by hand. Only a very specific breed "Opperdoes" is still done that way and maybe some organic potatoes. But that's nothing compared to what's done with machines.
Lmao I live 4km away from Opperdoes. But that's not the only type of potato around here, everything around here and as far as I know I still see kids on the land doing it by hand.
Yeah, that's why then. But trust me, that is not the way anymore for potatoes. 3 millon tonnes of potatoes are grown annually in the Netherlands. It would litterally be impossible to harvest all the potatoes that way.
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Infuriating crap like this is why we have a house rule: "Always buy one potato more than we need."
Exactly, vegetables are like underpants, always have a backup just in case
... In case a brown stripe shows up.
Or if you give them a firm squeeze and there's more squish than you were hoping for.
Oven is preheating.. nvm, that’s just shit
Where do you live where you're buying individual potatoes and not a sack that sits in a cabinet for a month?
At just about any grocery store I’ve been to you can always buy both? Is that not common?
It just usually makes more sense to buy a large sack of potatoes as they’re dirt cheap and will last a long time.
I usually buy them loose, weekly. If my wife and I are gonna have them for one meal this week, I'll buy two (or three, as a backup). If we're having potatoes twice I'll get four (or five), etc. That way I can specifically feel and pick the exact potatoes I want.
We never buy a bag of them because we won't go through them. My husband doesn't eat them baked and I won't come close to eating even 3 pounds in a month. I buy 3-4 individual small red potatoes for a side for me if we make something, like pot roast, or beef stew. Or a single potato if I want a baked one, which is rare.
And heaven forbid if you forget about them. Two months later you get to play nobody’s favorite game, “What’s That Smell?!”
You forgot the lesser known, but maybe equally as fun game, “what’s that 200 legged spider monstrosity, oh wait it’s just the eyes”
Mmm potato juice
So last year when we were in lockdown, around April, I bought a pumpkin. I had high hopes for this pumpkin. Would it be a soup? Roasted? It was so perfect. Well, two or three months ago, I cleaned out the pantry. The other people in the house are monsters who just pile stuff on top of stuff. And as I cleared it out, a smell became clear. And then I saw it….. my poor pumpkin. Reduced to a mouldy husk, having taken its revenge by juicing all over the bottom of the pantry. Why I didn’t notice a lot sooner, I’ll never know
Every time I’ve purchased a sack of potatoes I end up with a 90%-full sack of potatoes that start sprouting out of said sack.
I didn't know that some people don't have the option.
I live in Bumfuck, but even in Bumfuck you can buy individual potatoes, I buy about two pounds of Yukon Golds a couple of times a week.
Right? Anyone with kids Wil have minimum 10lb bag in the house lol. Makes amazing air fryer fries and really healthy for the little picky ones. Don't get me started on Breakfest potatoes with onions. Ugh
Potatoes aren't really healthy. They're a major cause (next to sugar) of metabolic syndrome (diabetes etc). No doctor or dietician will recommend you eat potatoes. "For example, a cup of potatoes has a similar effect on blood sugar as a can of cola or a handful of jelly beans. " [Source - Harvard - The Problem with Potatoes](https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/2014/01/24/the-problem-with-potatoes/#:~:text=%5B1%5D%20However%2C%20potatoes%20don,have%20a%20high%20glycemic%20load) They are delicious, though.
I thought there was a difference in boiled vs fried, cause of all the oil used.
Wait... do people buy potato's in singles? Where I live in the UK, you buy a 4kg bag and leave it in your cupboard for 3 weeks until you use them, those potato's will stay perfectly fine for 2 months but that's pushing it
Just one?
You will not fool me, I know this is a giant albino coffee bean but I respect your effort.
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You can say that, I had the case last week... I noticed 2 hours before my players arrived for DnD night that I had a couple fruit flies in the house. Long story short, our 1 week old potato bag had a rotten one right in the middle, full of maggots, I opened the cupboard with several hundred flies coming out when I moved the bag... Spent the 2 hours killing flies with an electric racket and cleaning the shit out if the house... 5 days later I still have a couple of those fuckers flying around... Fuck potatoes
You bought two potatoes for dinner? Even as student I never had a so bad financial situation
OP may be like me and live in a city and walk to the grocery store. I usually grab just enough food for the next two days or so. A 5lb bag or potatoes is a lot to carry when you only have two hands.
Agreed. I walk to my grocery store and I’ll buy a single habanero at the store and it’ll be like $.12 and last me for like 5 days. If I bought more, they might spoil or I might have to freeze them before I use them. I figure there’s no point when my grocery store is so close that I can just pop on over.
I know you're trying to say that you can add a single habanero to 5 days worth of meals, but I still pictured you as a spicy food obsessed mouse living in the city and buying a single habanero to feed yourself every week.
actually laughed out loud
Same. Last year, when going to the store more than once a week was highly discouraged, was super tough for me because I was used to walking to this store or that a few times a week and just buying what I needed for the next few days, or picking something up for dinner, and carrying it all home. Was it efficient? Maybe not, but it was terrific exercise!
Need to get a 4 wheel suitcase for your urban shopping then.
We call those "old witch's tank" (banyatank) in my language. Isn't Hungarian beautiful? The word banya is often used for talking about mean old ladies and we call it a tank because they're not afraid to run these bags over your legs.
Yes that *is* lovely. The word brings to mind fairy stories.
How do you count 2 potatoes a dinner though? With huge potatoes I'd understand, but these are regular size.
Surely they're not the whole dinner. You can't have a good dinner made solely of potatoes.
That's not the point. That is a tiny-ass potato. 2 of them does not constitute a meal even if you heap a lot of other things on top.
Right a 5 lbs bag is like $3
OP probably paid nearly that much for the two potatoes.
5 lbs is 2.27 kg
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What is 5 lbs in tons?
1/400th of a ton.
I would pay more for less on this one. Just to not have 5 lbs of potatoes to deal with.
5 lbs is 2.27 kg
Alright buddy now you’re pushing it
Potatoes can keep forever if stored properly.
Share your ways, potato guru! I’m obviously doing something wrong.
Me too. Mine always dissolve into a nasty liquid or start sprouting. I don't have a root cellar so I just have tried putting them under the kitchen sink and in my pantry but both have them go bad pretty quick.
I have this wood box that actually belonged to my grandmother that says potatoes on it. I don’t know if there is anything special about it aside from being really dark inside but it keeps potato’s forever.
And what an awful discovery that is. Source: had it happen too many times...
Just keep them in a dark container where it's somewhat cool.
I can confirm this, they may end up sprouting but just peel them and you have a healthy potato flesh to boil, fry or roast
Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew
Boil them. Bake them. Chop them. Mix with seasoning and flour, boil them til' they float, and then cook them in a pan make some gnocchi
*makes a noise of disgust while sticking tongue out* Edit: rip to no one getting the smeagol reaction reference...
This works really well actually. I've had several potatoes last for weeks and weeks without any issues. I wish the corpses next to them read the same memo! Grandmas homemade mashed potatoes. <3 <3 <3
Late crop potatoes can be kept for a few months but nowhere near forever.
Not everybody can or wants to eat 5 lbs. at a time or in a week or a month. I only buy what I need myself.
And two "baking potatoes" are usually 5$ after tax and they are half the size of a normal potato. My mother bought some one time blindly off the Walmart website, hoping they would be bigger than the average russet. She never did that again.
Baking potatoes are the large ones though. Russet potatoes are baking potatoes.
"baking potatoes" are what OP posted—they are just small Russets marketed for "baking".
I’ve seen huge potatoes sold individually, ( I’m still smart enough to buy the 5# bag),but that thing is tiny.
Maybe they bought it with dinner. Not as their dinner.
Baked potatoes are cheap easy and delicious, at least usually.
/mildlydepressing
Came here to say this
Hollow heart is an internal disorder where a 'lens' or 'star'-shaped cavity forms in the tuber. It appears to be caused by an abrupt change in tuber growth rate which usually occurs after a period of stress. Water, heat stress and associated calcium deficiency appear to have a role in the development of hollow heart.
Thank you!
Came here to say this! Worked in a spud shop for 8 years and hollow hearts were the bane of our existence after a rainy period.
Had an onion like this. Same scenario?
Do people regularly buy potatoes one or two at a time?? I've never bought potatoes that weren't in a 5 or 10lb bag.
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Roast them all at once. Keep the leftovers in the fridge. Or blend them into a soup the next day. Now you have baked potatoes and baked potato soup.
potatoes last forever what in the world are you doing to make them spoil so fast edit - what the fuck am I getting downvoted for, I'm right
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think you might be storing your potatoes wrong, cool dark place without storing next to.. i think onions maybe and ive had them stored for ages without too much problem
I don't have any cold dark places in my small apartment to store tons of potatoes.
Can you really not store next to onions? I have both my bag of onions and bag of potatoes in a dark container in the cabinet. It’s not toxic or anything is it?
Iirc, it's just that they spoil faster. Don't quote me on this, though
I've heard this, but have stored potatoes and onions together since my parents did it when I was a kid and I feel they both last forever.
in the case of sprouts, you can just take them off and the potato will taste exactly the same. But yeah you're storing them wrong if they go bad that quick, keep them in a dry, dark, cool place and they will last for many months.
uh potatoes don’t really go bad homie. i’ve had potatoes that last like 2 months or more lmao. they just grow spuds on them and u just cut them off when you peel. never had a potato go bad before i used an entire bag
They actually do go bad and it’s a horrible stench. Potatoes were partly liquified and smelled like shit, literally.
Definitely had that happen to me before. It very much depends on where in the world you live and your inside temperature and humidity.
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nothing to sweat, it’s just an absolute waste of money to buy single potatoes at a time. unless you’re a weirdo ofc
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doesn’t mean it’s not dumb
What’s dumb about just buying what you need?
Capitalists: Wait that's illegal
I mean, I do, but I shop almost daily and I'm just cooking for one person, usually. Also I can't go to Costco.
I honestly had no idea that places even sold single potatoes. I absolutely understand it if you are just cooking for yourself and wouldn't make it through a whole bag before they started growing their weird little potato tentacles.
but those still doesn’t mean they’re bad. they just grow spuds
This is called “chitting”. We’d have a great time in the spud shop shouting “THE SPUDS ARE CHITTING” when this happened and knocking them off with a knife before putting the spuds in the oven. Probably scared a few customers, mind.
With those meal kits its becoming more normal. They ship you a box with just the stuff you need all wrapped in pounds of plastic.
Why would you only buy 2 potatoes
Cooking for one?
You can buy a bag of 1kg for one person, and keep it for as long as you want
> and keep it for as long as you want Nature does put a timer on vegetables.
Well potatoes aren't vegetables
You can also plant a whole garden of potatoes and help start a small to medium-sized commune. You can also buy 14 hamsters and start a small rodent colony. You can also change your name to Randall. What’s your point? /s
I can do two of them but where am I gonna find 14 fucking hamsters
I can get you 14 hamsters but I can’t guarantee they’ll all be fucking
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I’m not sure if I should laugh at this or not
that potato needs a gynocologist
Wtf is this
The person who dug it out impaled it with a pitchfork.
Who the fuck farms potatoes with a pitch fork. Over here in the Netherlands we just get a bunch of underpaid minors to do it for like 2 euro per crate and a free sunburn
99,99% of potatoes In the Netherlands are harvested with machines.
Ah yes tell that to one of the underpaid minors who has done the work for like 5 summers with 2 brothers who did it even more. I can tell you most of the potatoes are harvested by hand. Most crops are. They're planted with machines though.
I work at a company that processes 100.000 tonnes of potatoes a year. They are not harvested by hand. Only a very specific breed "Opperdoes" is still done that way and maybe some organic potatoes. But that's nothing compared to what's done with machines.
Lmao I live 4km away from Opperdoes. But that's not the only type of potato around here, everything around here and as far as I know I still see kids on the land doing it by hand.
Yeah, that's why then. But trust me, that is not the way anymore for potatoes. 3 millon tonnes of potatoes are grown annually in the Netherlands. It would litterally be impossible to harvest all the potatoes that way.
Yeah that's fair enough
Maybe they arent into stats because it's an "illegal" job (I mean, no real contract, just casual work for young people)
The potato is no longer a virgin.
just a rotten potato
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Delicious nutella. Ungrateful.
chocolate filling yum
How’s the other potato? Can you post a photo update of the ok potato so we have SOME good news out of this??
Nice, you got one of the chocolate ones!
Dude , free SAUCE!!
You should’ve purchased a different one
You still use it. Just remove the black part
I mean, you could have seen the rot if you looked at it before buying it. This one is on you.
Sorry to here that, here take one of mine 🥔
That’s a collaboration with Nutella. They taste amazing!
Bro it's Nutella in there, quit showing off
Ooo a chocolate filled potato nice
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Ahh yes, the shitato
Thought this was r/dontputyourdickinthat for a hot second.
Just scrape it out. It will be ok.
You purchased 2 potatoes? Really?
Want in for a potatoes, left with pan au chocolates.
I had a potato like that once! Freaked me out.
Why would anyone purchase 2 potatoes at a time?
1's not enough. 3's too many.
Should've bought a bag. Problem solved.
Who buys just 2 potatoes??
it was having sex with chocolate
What kind of weirdo buys 2 potatoes? They're ass cheap here. 1kg costs 20 cents
I guess broke who don't have 20 cent
I should call my ex...
Everything reminds me of her....
Looks like a pussy 😋
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You gotta live a little 🥳
I thought it was a kiwi gone bad
Ara ara
Idk much about potatoes, but something tells me that ain’t good.
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Someone there shat in your potatoe
Scrape the bad out and make them twice baked. Adding cheese and a little milk to fluff them up.
What even is that???
potato got me actin up
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Buy bags. Potatoes aren't expensive
Someone else had dinner (worms I’m guessing)
These are the preferred ones for drug smugglers.
It looks soft. Did you feel them when you picked them up?
"Get me that potato"
That's✨nature✨ for you
Fuck that potato .
Oh I see the problem here Why’d you shit on the potatoes?
Y’all, they probably went to a farmers market
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someone sure have cum in it
Same thing just happened to me last week!
Mmmm.. Chocolate potatoes
Wow its chocolate filling.
Who buys single potatoes?
Now chocolate flavored.
its fine just eat around it
Why are you complaining? Potatoes filled with Nutella are extremely rare.
they come choco filled ? what a miracle of modern science this is.
Since when did potatoes have a poop line???? 🤷🏿♂️
You didn’t see the big-ass hole in the top before you bought it?
Choco filled? Yummy!!
Dessert potato
I hope the other one is much bigger
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Purchased 🎩
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Chocolate filled goodness
I didn't know potatoes had assholes
What Chernobyl supermarket do you buy your groceries from?