Any tips for ripening an avocado?

[Ou grote]

Believe it or not...
As mentioned before, keeping it next to bananas will ripen them quickly.
In a day or so they'll be ready.

 

[killadoob]

Forget avo's, what kind of crazy house do you live in? I could down the days to tearing into my avo's.

A salad is not a salad without avo

 

[metalcore]

Sometimes at supermarkets like PnP or Spar and Fruit and Veg Cit you can get ripe ones that are separately wrapped in punnets of 2. Usually they are about R2 more although out of season it can be way more.

 

[Picard]

Believe it or not...
As mentioned before, keeping it next to bananas will ripen them quickly.
In a day or so they'll be ready.

Why?

 

[waynegohl]

we had a mango next to some bananas and within a few hours the mango was rotten.

 

[Ou grote]

Why?

No idea.
Try it yourself.
Don't leave them next to each other for more than 3 days, they ripen very quickly.

 

[killadoob]

Why?

Don't question the Banana.

Banana's can do that .

 

[kingmonty]

To speed up ripening of an avocado place it in a container and cover the avocado with Maize Meal. Flour works as well, but maize meal works fastest. Generally 2 - 5 days depending on how hard the ave was to begin with. If it's a really hard avo let it ripen in a brown paper bag along with a green banana or a tomato. By the way, if you're working with a super soft avo, drop it in an ice cold liter of suger-salt water (2 tbsp sugar, 1 tbsp salt to 1 liter water (50/50 water/ice works best) about 10 minutes before slicing the avo.

 

[TheREV]

Blu, I know this is not the answer you were looking for, but for future reference, here's my advice on buying avos:

Buy only Hass or Fuerte avos. No exceptions.

Take them out of the box yourself - not from a huge display where everyone has already "checked to see if they are ripe"

Buy them a week in advance - rock hard only. That way you control whether they will bruise or not. And don't dump them in your trolley with other stuff. Treat them like glass.

Keep them in a safe, warm, dark place - they will ripen in 5-7 days. Do not refrigerate whole avos.

Never, ever, buy avos with a shiny skin. They will be watery.

And if for some odd reason you only use half an avo, leave the pip in the other half and clingwrap it as tight as possible over the flesh - then you can pop it in the fridge.

 

[Kim_Webchick]

Dark place, in a brown paper packet or even place near a banana

 

[guest2013-1]

The issue is really whether I can remove the avo from the fridge and now put it into a dark cupboard/wrap it in newspaper/etc?

Will the change in temperature from cold to roomtemp not have some adverse effect (other than ripening it? )

No it won't. Unless you froze it, either way, you need to have it at room temperature for the ripening to start.

My mom said to leave the avo's out the fridge if unused after you bought them. That's if you are going to use them within 2 or so weeks and depending on how ripe they really are. If you thought they were ripe when you bought them you're not checking properly