Speeding up avocado ripening [duplicate]

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Sometimes you want to buy an avocado, but all they have are hard on touch and you know they are not ready yet; they are rubbery and untasty.

One can buy them and wait couple days, they ripen sooner or later (hopefully before they get spoiled).

Are there any tricks and tips on how to speed up the ripening? Like special storage, some treatment to the avocado etc.

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Best Answer

In general, but mostly in my experience, it's a bit like treating a cold, or a flue: It you don't do anything, it will take 7 days, but with medicine it might only take a week.

In general, there are no natural fast-forward methods for fruits to ripen, at least not to the level that makes it interesting: If the actual specimen of the fruit is willing to cooperate, you might get from X days to X - 1 days, maybe X - 2 in very happy circumstances.

You may be able to force the fruit (or vegetable, whatever) to get to the stage where it fits your needs for processing (heat tends to work nice in general for instance, that's why we cook and fry stuff ), but it won't be the same as ripening that fruit. It's not like the fruit realizes what's going on, and starts to make up for lost time.



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What can I do to make avocados ripen faster?

You can speed up the avocado-ripening process with a piece of fruit. Put an avocado in a paper bag with a banana, an apple or a kiwi and fold to seal. These fruits produce ethylene gas, a plant hormone that aids ripening. The closed brown paper bag traps the gas inside to speed up the ripening time.

How do you make avocados ripen in minutes?

How to ripen avocados quickly
  • A ripe avocado in just two minutes?! ...
  • Here's another trick: Wrap the uncut fruit in tinfoil and bake on a baking sheet at 200\u02daF for ten minutes. ...
  • If you need the avocado ready in one to two days, try placing it into a bowl or a paper bag with an apple or banana.


    • How do you ripen an avocado in one hour?

    Use the oven Wrap it in tinfoil and place on a baking sheet. Pop it in the oven at 200\xb0F for ten minutes, or until the avocado is soft (depending on how hard it is, it could take up to an hour to soften). As the avocado bakes in the tinfoil, ethylene gas surrounds it, putting the ripening process into hyperdrive.


    Fastest Way to Ripen Avocados - 5 Hacks Tested \u0026 Reviewed



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