How to store sweet potatoes?

[MrsPinecone]

Thanks to all of those Food Lion coupons, I will have a bunch of sweet potatoes entering the house in the next couple of weeks.

How do I make them last a while without getting soft or sprouty?

[Kristen.C]

I always put mine in a cool dark place just like regular potatoes. We just had some on Sunday that I bought about 2 weeks ago and they were just fine.

[amerline]

keep them in the fridge (unless you have a cold celler).

Or, make stuff out of them and freeze it. Is there any room in your freezer or is it still filled w. meat?

Make sweet potatoe oven fries, so yummy.

[MrsPinecone]

Hee hee

The freezer is still pretty full of meat.

[MariaT]

I always put mine in a cool dark place just like regular potatoes. We just had some on Sunday that I bought about 2 weeks ago and they were just fine.

I've kept mine for much, much longer. Maybe a month or so.. I put them in an open crate on the basement floor. It's plenty dark and plenty cool there.

[wheels111]

I had 1 left over from Thanksgiving last year. It is now sitting in a pot in the kitchen - it made a nice looking plant!

[flash]

Store them in a cool dry place. We used to keep them in the garage or basement for months. But like any potatoes, they need to be dry.

Keep them open to air, not bundled up, not bagged. In the warmer months we put them next to the dehumidifier, seriously, it works great. Or if you use something like Damp Rid, keeping the container next to the potatoes can help. Some people dust with baking soda, not sure if that works or not.

Bake them with skins on, after they have cooled slip off the skins (they pucker and it's easy to do), and freeze them well, not forever but pretty close. When you are ready, just put them in a glass dish, dabs of butter or your choice :) and bake as usual.

If you haven't tried fried sweet potatoes/yams...peel, slice, and fry in butter or however you do your hash brown styles. The heat carmelizes the sugar to give them a different flavor that is really good.

Or cook them and fix as you would pumpkin to make a pie or custard.

[MrsPinecone]

This is all good information, since I used only 2 coupons today and got about 8lb of sweet potatoes already. Many more to come! LOL

[mocha poka]

The last part of your post has me drooling! Can't wait for next week and some of my sister's sweet potato casserole!

Seriously though, we pulled some out of our garden earlier this fall, but they didn't last long enough for us to store them!!

Store them in a cool dry place. We used to keep them in the garage or basement for months. But like any potatoes, they need to be dry.

Keep them open to air, not bundled up, not bagged. In the warmer months we put them next to the dehumidifier, seriously, it works great. Or if you use something like Damp Rid, keeping the container next to the potatoes can help. Some people dust with baking soda, not sure if that works or not.

Bake them with skins on, after they have cooled slip off the skins (they pucker and it's easy to do), and freeze them well, not forever but pretty close. When you are ready, just put them in a glass dish, dabs of butter or your choice :) and bake as usual.

If you haven't tried fried sweet potatoes/yams...peel, slice, and fry in butter or however you do your hash brown styles. The heat carmelizes the sugar to give them a different flavor that is really good.

Or cook them and fix as you would pumpkin to make a pie or custard.

[PrincessCoupon]

Store them in your belly! I truly believe that is the best place to put them. :wink: