You may have heard that placing avocados in a brown paper bag will help them ripen faster. Laenen confirms this method works, ...

Another common flaw in some avocados are woody strings that stretch through the flesh. These strings are part of the plant's ...

Is there anything more satisfying than splitting open a perfectly ripe avocado? It always feels like winning the lottery when you see that sea of perfectly green flesh — especially because, as healthy ...

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 ...

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Here‘s how to make sure your avocados are ripe and delicious. People began cultivating avocados around 500 BCE, and the crop has become a staple of many cuisines in the centuries since. Although the ...

The reasons one might find herself with 14 perfectly ripe avocados vary. Maybe there were multiple, thoughtful grocery shoppers. Or maybe there was one forgetful shopper. Or maybe it was both. The ...

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 ...