White Potatoes, again.

MOnica 👍

I just cut out the dark bits and sprouts and eat whats left. there is no need to throw potatoes away.

As suedonim says, if you buy potatoes loose you can examine them individually before paying out.

We usually buy our potatoes from one of the farms, they keep much better and are cheaper to buy. 25kg bags and keep them in the paper sacks, after spreading out in fresh air to make sure they are dry, then into smaller hessian bags for indoors. Store in the shed for months, the ones we are using at the moment were bought in October.

But like you say the odd times I have to buy from the supermarket they never keep for long and sometimes are not so good when you peel them - even when they look alright. I do always remove them from the plastic bags, as with all veg.

It's the tail end - or past it - of potatoes in the UK at the moment. Spuds grown here are naturally not going to be at their best. Storing and selling them in plastic bags doesn't help.

The changeable weather last year (very wet followed by drought) caused a lot of problems for the potato growers, in Scotland at least. Harvests were very poor and standards weren’t great due to disease getting into the crops. It could also be that the produce isn’t being stored properly by sellers.

Most supermarkets sell loose potatoes so you can be more particular about which you choose from those.

I'm so in agreement with you KKOB.
Bought Maris Pipers in Sainsbury's on Thursday, awful. Don't eat many so they will have to go on compost heap. I find Tesco's much better for fruit and vegetables. Sainsbury's blueberries are always overripe too

Maris Pipers are my go to potato. I've noticed Sainsbury's bags, include so many incy wincy ones of late, only suitable for mash. I've started looking elsewhere, Aldis are a bit more expensive but at least there were several in their bags that would be a reasonable size for a jacket potato or two.

I don’t feel the quality as such is poorer and I just use Tesco’s all rounders but I don’t find they last as long and wonder where they have been stored.