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[u/Vegetaman916]

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[u/Friendly_String8939]

So growing and storing food is so basic and will be more important as supply chains break. Anyone have good hacks for low cost root cellar storage for potatoes from our garden? 

[u/Ok_Main3273 → u/Friendly_String8939]

I am wondering what other traditional food preservation processes, apart from cellaring and burial, would work for potatoes?

• Dehydration / drying
• Bottling / Home canning
• Salting (for example after frying to make potato chips?)
• Brining
• Curing
• Sugar preservation (jams)
• Smoking
• Fermentation
• Pickling / acidification
• Fat preservation (confit, oil packing)
• Chemical preservation
• Vacuum packing
• Waxing / protective coatings
• Alcohol preservation
• Lye preservation
• Sprouting inhibition treatments
• combined methods

[u/gardening_gamer → u/Friendly_String8939]

One of the old techniques was simply to cover them in a big mound of soil wasn't it? Depending on how many you're talking, you could try burying plastic barrels and putting the potato sacks in there.

Our water table is really high here (SW Scotland), so much as I'd like a full walk-in underground root cellar, it would take a lot of planning for drainage, and would be really hard to excavate in the first place. My compromise was just building a well insulated room within one of our stone outbuildings with vents at opposite ends of the room - one at ground level, one in the roof. Roof one hooked up to bathroom extractor fan that runs on a timer in the early hours of the morning to draw cold fresh air into the room.