Submitted by susu6 on July 10, 2010 - 11:32am

Potato water

How long will water from boiled potatoes keep in the refrigerator?

Thanks

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About as long as milk

About as long as milk does.

Ford

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Use the next day.

It will change it's flavor as it stands in the cold, usually getting sweeter.  

Mini

Keeping potato water

I always use it by the next day.  I've been happy by using a poolish to start my potato bread overnight, so if I'm using the potato water from cooking potatoes for dinner, I let it cool to lukewarm, then make my poolish with it that night and bake the next day.

potato water shelf life

Thank you so much, I will toss it, it is a week old.

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