Store bought potatoes going bad in 7-10 days, why?

[UserNameTaken]

Has anybody else noticed when you buy the bulk potatoes in bags at the market they are going bad within a week or two. We've had this happen the last 4 times. And the potatoes are tiny, like the undersize "cartel avacados" we get out west now. I wonder if it's regional (norwest AZ) or a new thing.

We are trying to grow some winter potatoes here in AZ. Last year we started too late and they got cooked in the dirt by late May. It's just too hot and dry, I guess.

 

[Amish Heart]

They're either old, stored too warm, maybe not sprayed with that retardant as much as normal.
Anyway, home grown taste better. I love new potatoes.

 

[Tootsie]

I’ve gotten potatoes that were cold, way too cold as though they were stored in a refrigerated truck, and when they warmed up in those plastic bags they started to get funky. I know I need to lose the plastic asap, but it doesn’t always happen.

 

[Pearl]

Yes I have noticed that too! They are sprayed with retardant pre election to get people to vote demcrap!

 

[Mountain trapper]

Not here. We usually buy 10 - 20 pound bags of russet potatoes. Many are large enough for baked potatoes or french fries.

 

[UserNameTaken]

Yes I have noticed that too! They are sprayed with retardant pre election to get people to vote demcrap!

Well that's certainly a possibility, but I'm thinking we are getting old potatoes out here. When I had a cruising sailboat we'd go to the islands for 3 months and potatoes would last pretty well. Samevwith eggs, even in 80 deg temps.

 

[Amish Heart]

The amish grocery was clean out of potatoes, they usually have 5 and 10 lb bags. Someone came in and bought them out. Actually, I saw 6 people in the store that I've not seen before. Don't know where they came from. But they did have Wrights Bacon. I got three pkgs for the freezer.

 

[Pearl]

The amish grocery was clean out of potatoes, they usually have 5 and 10 lb bags. Someone came in and bought them out. Actually, I saw 6 people in the store that I've not seen before. Don't know where they came from. But they did have Wrights Bacon. I got three pkgs for the freezer.

I bet people are coming in from other places buying everything up before the election results!!

 

[Weedygarden]

I bet people are coming in from other places buying everything up before the election results!!

Do you think that that many people are as concerned about the election results as we are?

My grandparents had crappy land, and couldn't really garden in the thick clay. They would buy many burlap bags of potatoes from someone who came around selling them in the fall. I always wondered how those potatoes lasted over the winter. Beans, wheat, and potatoes were probably the main foods in their diets.

 

[Binky]

Has anybody else noticed when you buy the bulk potatoes in bags at the market they are going bad within a week or two. We've had this happen the last 4 times. And the potatoes are tiny, like the undersize "cartel avacados" we get out west now. I wonder if it's regional (norwest AZ) or a new thing.

We are trying to grow some winter potatoes here in AZ. Last year we started too late and they got cooked in the dirt by late May. It's just too hot and dry, I guess.

My guess would be they're older potatoes that may have gone through too many temperature changes since they were first harvested.

What temperature have you been storing the potatoes at when you get them home?

 

[teeceetx]

I've noticed it too.

They do not last very long at all. About half the time I would expect!.

I wonder how old they are and how they were stored previously.