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- Keep potatoes with onions - not a good idea!
- Potatoes and onions: stockpiling must be!
- The storage conditions are similar
- Potatoes sprout faster next to onions
- Onions rot faster next to potatoes
- Short meeting is acceptable
- Tips
- For both types of vegetables: Do not store in the fridge
Onions and potatoes should not be stored together
Keep potatoes with onions - not a good idea!
Potatoes and onions - without these two types of vegetables there is hardly anything going on in the kitchen.So they are always found in the pantry, often harmoniously next to each other. But is that really such a good neighborhood? Unfortunately, no. Read why this is so.
Potatoes and onions: stockpiling must be!
Potatoes and onions are among the ingredients that we want to have in stock at any time in the kitchen. Cheap offers seduce in addition to regular bulk purchases.
Since only a portion of the tubers or onions is consumed, the rest must be stored well until everything is used up.
The storage conditions are similar
Both potatoes and onions have similar demands on the optimal storage location:
Onions prefer a cooler location than potatoes, but this difference is not so serious. They also get along better with light than potatoes.
Potatoes sprout faster next to onions
The storage conditions are not the criterion why these two vegetables should not be stored together. The reason is that potatoes go out and shrink faster than onions. As a result, they are no longer fresh and unsuitable for cooking.
Onions rot faster next to potatoes
When onions are stored next to potatoes, more of them go into the garbage pot than into the saucepan. Onions get a lot of moisture from the neighboring potatoes and start to rot. Their shelf life drops rapidly as a result.
Short meeting is acceptable
Potatoes and onions may exceptionally be kept together if the following conditions are met:
Tips
If you have no other option but to keep both vegetables together, you should buy as small quantities as possible. Thus, the loss is limited by spoiling.
For both types of vegetables: Do not store in the fridge
Onions and potatoes do not like the damp environment in the fridge at all. There are only two exceptions: