Quick Tip: Washing Potatoes

Quick Tip: Washing Potatoes

I rarely need just one potato. I normally am cooking this vegetable in large quantities for potato salad, mashed potatoes or even roasting them like the recipe I put up earlier this week. I like to was my produce but it can be cumbersome to wash 20-30 little potatoes. My solution is to wash them in the mesh bag they come in. It us durable enough to scrub the potatoes and I can pour my vegetable soap right through the material. It saves me time because I can wash them all at once and then carry them to my prep area.

There are a few other ways to reuse that mesh bag as opposed to putting it right in the trash. The bag can be used for scouring pads when bunched up to clean pots and pans. You can cover drainage hopes in pots; water will still get through, but the mesh will make the soil stay put. Protect berries from birds by covering up a bush or tree. The sun and rain can get through but the berries will stay put until harvest. You can even use them as a sifter to clean out a sand box or sort rocks out of soil. These are just a few listed ways to reuse those mesh bags.