You may have heard that placing avocados in a brown paper bag will help them ripen faster. Laenen confirms this method works, but placing avocados and bananas in the paper bag together is a better ...

Guacamole lovers around the globe are all too familiar with the panic and desperation that descends when realizing that their avocados won’t magically ripen in the hour left before taco night. But you ...

We tested popular avocado-ripening methods to see which ways work and which ways don't.

With avocados, what you see -- a dark, rough exterior that may have helped to earn the fruit its nickname of alligator pear -- isn't exactly what you get when you cut them open. Inside, you're hoping ...

If you have a hard avocado and you need it to be soft in a day or so, simply place it in a brown paper bag with a banana or apple and fold the top to close it up. The natural ethylene gases emitted by ...

Placing unripe avocados in a paper bag with fruit that gives off ethylene gas ripens them the fastest. Using a ripe banana edged out an apple by two days, but either method works. Heating avocados ...

Picking out avocados is a whole thing. I mean, timing is everything with these guys for the perfect taste, depending on when you need them, of course. Maybe you're making your world-famous guacamole, ...

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