@cherokeepatti Well, THAT explains a lot. I have one of those double tiered storage baskets on my countertop, and I used to keep BOTH the onions and potatoes stacked one veg on top of the other. Lots of potatoes went bad.

Eventually I bought a macrame net bag and hung the potatoes about 5 feet distant, and that worked much better. NOW I don't eat potatoes anymore, so...NOT an issue.

@4meAndyou some people like to store their potatoes in a dark place. I had a neighbor one time who told me her mother told her to put them in the closet and keep the door closed to keep out the light. She did and forgot about them and started smelling them and it was rotten potatoes by then. I think it the closet next to the kitchen that had a folding door. She hadn’t cooked potatoes for quite a while and forgot about them.

@cherokeepatti The deadbeats who skipped out on their rent so that I had sheriff's notices posted on my door out in the hallway ALSO put their potatoes in the kitchen closet and allowed them to rot.

When I moved in, the effluvia from their rotten potatoes had soaked into the untreated fiber board floor of the closet, and the smell would NOT die until I painted the fiberboard heavily with acrylic paint and sealed it.

@Gibbon Great point! Most people don't know that refrigerating an onion will remove MOST of the nice, sharp onion flavor!

@Gibbon You are MOST welcome!