"Ranée at Arabian Knits" wrote:
>
> You find a moldy potato in the sack? Do you throw the whole sack
> away? Do you throw away the moldy potato and those that were touching
> it? Do you throw away any moldy potatoes and wash the rest and use
> them? Or?

It it's just some surface mold and the potato is firm, I just peel it
deeper than normal and use it up. If it's going soft I toss it. I check
each potato individually, and I use them all up right away by making a
batch of potato salad or roast potatoes.

I hate wasting food, and I have never become sick from any salvaged
potatoes, week old leftovers, etc. I'm not sure why I hate wasting food,
I grew up somewhat poor, but never short of food. I have a friend who
often tosses half a plate of food after dinner and it drives me nuts.

On 7/29/2011 9:27 AM, Pete C. wrote:
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> "Ranée at Arabian Knits" wrote:
>>
>> You find a moldy potato in the sack? Do you throw the whole sack
>> away? Do you throw away the moldy potato and those that were touching
>> it? Do you throw away any moldy potatoes and wash the rest and use
>> them? Or?
>
> It it's just some surface mold and the potato is firm, I just peel it
> deeper than normal and use it up. If it's going soft I toss it. I check
> each potato individually, and I use them all up right away by making a
> batch of potato salad or roast potatoes.
>
> I hate wasting food, and I have never become sick from any salvaged
> potatoes, week old leftovers, etc. I'm not sure why I hate wasting food,
> I grew up somewhat poor, but never short of food. I have a friend who
> often tosses half a plate of food after dinner and it drives me nuts.

I have had food poisoning twice and I don't wish a recurrence. Unless a
brown patch on a potato is very small and I can remove it with the
peeler, I would discard it. After all, how much does a potato cost? I
throw away any onions that have soft patches. I am rather careful in
selecting water chestnuts and don't use any with apparent rot. I don't
usually use a whole cabbage in one meal so I cut off browned edges and
discard whole leaves if browning extends from the cut. The same is true
for lettuce and celery. I will cut off brown or dried leaves of green
onions.

As far as leftovers are concerned, unless I knowingly cook more than I
will eat and don't serve them up, I discard them down the garbage
grinder since I don't empty the kitchen garbage bin daily and have a
rather sensitive sense of smell.

Any mold causes me to immediately discard food, including frozen bread.

--


James Silverton, Potomac

I'm *not*

"Pete C." > wrote in message
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>
> "Ranée at Arabian Knits" wrote:
>>
>> You find a moldy potato in the sack? Do you throw the whole sack
>> away? Do you throw away the moldy potato and those that were touching
>> it? Do you throw away any moldy potatoes and wash the rest and use
>> them? Or?
>
> It it's just some surface mold and the potato is firm, I just peel it
> deeper than normal and use it up. If it's going soft I toss it. I check
> each potato individually, and I use them all up right away by making a
> batch of potato salad or roast potatoes.
>
> I hate wasting food, and I have never become sick from any salvaged
> potatoes, week old leftovers, etc. I'm not sure why I hate wasting food,
> I grew up somewhat poor, but never short of food.

My parents grew up during the 1930's Depression so they taught me the value
of food.

> I have a friend who
> often tosses half a plate of food after dinner and it drives me nuts.

That drives me nuts, too. Don't throw away perfectly good food!

I see these ads on television for black trash can bags that "won't show"
what you're throwing out. What they show is mom scraping spaghetti in red
sauce which should be tucked away in containers to be frozen or eaten in the
next couple of days. Talk about waste! Just because you can't see it on
the white kitchen trash can liner means it's okay to throw away perfectly
good food. Don't think so.

Jill