Okay, I’ll be real with you. If you live in a hot, humid apartment and your pantry is basically an oven, sometimes the fridge is the lesser of two evils. If your potatoes are starting to sweat or sprout after two days on the counter, you can put them in the fridge for short-term storage.
Just know that you’ll need to use them quickly, and they might taste a little different. The trick is to take them out a day before you cook them and let them sit on the counter. That helps some of the extra sugar convert back to starch. It’s not perfect, but it’s a solid survival move.
I’ve done this during a heatwave, and my roasted potatoes still turned out okay—not my best work, but nobody complained. Sometimes you just have to do what you have to do to keep the potatoes from turning into science experiments.
