This is a question for those with more avocado experience than I have. I've been eating them for a couple months now, but have issues with the timing of when they're ready to eat, and the condition of their insides. I get a few that I know I just waited too long on, and they will be really mushy and gray in large areas. Others have pockets with a gray color around them. I've been eating bananas long enough to understand that the brown is either over-ripe or bruised. You can eat it, but it might taste icky. Is it the same story with avocados? Should I cut off the gray areas? I'm also curious about the best way to know they're ripe enough. I have been eating them when they are firmer lately and they seem to be more palatable. Thanks for any advice.
only eat the green. They are like peaches in someways. Put them in a paper bag in a warm place to ripen before they rot. =)
I sometimes put a half in a baggie in the fridge, with the seed still in it. I bought some at the store last week that were real GREEN but within a few days they turned darker, to slow the ripening process put them in the fridge, or ice box if you don't have a fridge. Rancher
I put them in the fridge and they last a good long time. It's cheaper here to buy the 6 pack of huge ones at Sams than to get the small ones, so I just put the whole net bag in the door and haven't had any trouble with them turning too fast. The way to tell if an avocado is ripe is to push on the little stem part. If it holds firm, it's not ripe. If it rolls off with a little nudge, it's ripe. If it's already gone it's probably overripe and possibly black streaked as well.
Sure, good sliced thin on samich as well as 40 other ways. Easier if one is handy in a fridge air tight container.
To get them to ripen faster put them in a bag with an apple or some cabbage (or other cruciferous vegetable). Both of these emit a gas that fosters ripening. When I worked in produce this was one of the tricks we used to get certain items to the desired level of ripeness for sale including overly green and cold bananas.
A guy I know started dating a woman he met at the grocery store when she asked the very same questions, they are getting married next year. I wonder how he will feel about avocados in a few years....
Get 'em too green and you'll break your teeth trying to eat 'em. I just leave them out on the counter for a couple of days they're good to go. I use them in my daily salads. The outer hull is pretty tough to chew up and swallow, but is great fiber. Yes I'm joking.
I got hooked on those things down in Central America. I got them right off the tree but they don't ripen on a tree so that's about the best place to store them. In paper bag stuffed in a cabinet, they ripen in about two days then you can refrigerate them to slow the ripening. Try a thick sliced avocado sandwich with just butter and salt.
Our small avocados are usually less than 50 cents, I saw an ad yesterday where the grocery market chain that caters to the South of the border people (I didn't know what to call them, hispanic is not a race) they were 5 for a dollar. Rancher
Man I wish the little ones were .50 each here. Even on sale they're .99. Amigos sometimes has them 2 for a buck, but they're generally about 4 days past ripe when that happens. The big ones run $1.99 each, but Sams has them 6 to a bag for 4.99 so I get that.
The Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death was a supremely cheezy movie filmed in 1989. It starred Adrienne Barbeaux, Bill Maher, and Shannon Tweed. It was written and directed by somebody, and only the skimpy costumes, big boobs and the six-pack abs of the male concubines could keep a viewer from poking their eyes out with a hot ice pick. Watch it once. Better yet, watch Hobo With a Shotgun instead. And don't forget to heat up your icepick for that one, either.
I always likes to eat green avocado, not gray colour. Those who wants to take low amount of calorie food, better to stay away from avocado. Because it contains little much more calorie in this fruit. But naturally this fruit contains so many health benefits to the body, so don't panic to eat avocado.