Potatoes - best way to store in the kitchen

What is the best way to store potatoes in the kitchen.

I read that if you store in a fridge they produce some chemical that
could be cancerous but when I store them covered in a basket they
soon grow shoots as I haven't got a very cool place to keep them.
I have to throw so many away it is such a waste.

Any ideas please?

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I can tell you how my parents would store large quantities of potatoes...cool, dark environment with air circulating and covered by newspapers and potatoes well spaced.

 

It is a problem in the summer, even if you were to clamp them in the garden it's still warm enough for them to start growing.

The potato packing factory I worked at had a huge refrigerated shed to store them in.

In the past I've bought 25kg sacks and divided them up into smaller bags and sold half the sack on the doorstep, but that was mainly so I got the other half free.

 

No chemicals sprayed on in the factory I was at, but there was a bloke at the end of the line who put 2 handfuls of peat in each sack before it was stitched up

Made it seem that they were grown in peat instead of Somerset mud

 

I store maincrop ones from last year, for baking, in the garage, but they still sprout at this time of the year.
I have read that stored below a certain temperature makes them have a slightly sweet taste, due to some of the starch turning to sugar.
Think the best bet is to not buy more than you can consume in a week, at this time of the year.

I'm buying mostly new spuds now, probably jersey ones but wont be long before others are available.