katied772

I love avocados but they are always so iffy. Either too ripe or not at all. Usually I bring the unripe ones home and either let sit or put in a paper bag for a day and they are ripe. I now have two sitting in a paper bag for 5 days and they still are not ripe. Didn't really seem that far off when I bought them. Any good ideas for ripening? Thanks.

lab fairy

Maybe putting them in a bag with an apple.

pookie ookie

Bananas will ripen them.

Maride

This time of the year is hard to find good avocados. Hard to tell where they come from because this is not the season. Sometimes they feel hard on the outside and they are over done when you cut into them. Keep trying.

NikkiLu

My sister lived in Mexico for 20 years and she had avacado trees on her place and she says that you have to pick off the stem end - the little hard end of the avacado and then put it in a paper bag and it will ripen faster.

HTH

katied772

So, think I'll go for broke and pick the end off, then put in the bag with an apple AND a banana.

amandasgramma

I gave up on one not long ago --- and even though it was hard, I cut into it....it was perfect!!!!!

Candace

We have a tree. Hundreds of them some seasons! It took us a year to perfect the ripening. We don't use any bags, they just ripen on the counter.

theoldgraymare

I would so love to have an avocado tree! I could eat avocado every day and never grow tired of it.

Cyn

Mine ripen on the counter.