NO JOKE! In just 24 hours, you can get a green hard avocado ready to enjoy!

DirtFarmerJay compares 3 methods for ripening avocados - choose for yourself what approach you want to use!

This is the second episode on ripening avocados that we’ve offered, and we’ve received plenty of questions, comments, and viewpoints on how to get an avocado ready to use in the shortest possible time.

To provide an honest test, we bought 4 avocados of all similar sizes, colors, and hardness. They were all very green and ultra-firm - not ready to use at all!

We washed and labeled all of the fruits, and set one aside to provide a baseline. This avocado was simply placed on the counter in our kitchen, where the room temperature was about 68°F/20°C. The other three each had different methods used to attempt the hastening of ripening and all at the same room temp.

One was simply wrapped in plastic food wrap. Why? We’ve been asked many times if this is a viable approach, so we put it to the test. The result? It did NOTHING to help to soften the fruit, in fact, it appeared to impede it! The fruit that was simply left on the counter ripened faster than it did.

Another avocado was placed in a small brown paper bag, along with an apple, and the bag was rolled shut tightly. This method worked well, with the fruit beginning to noticeably soften at the 12-hour mark. When 24 hours had elapsed, the avocado was ready to go!

The last avocado was submerged fully in a tub of white flour. This method worked equally well as the paper bag and apple treatment. Like the paper bag approach, noticeable softening occurred at 12 hours, with full readiness being reached at 24 hours.

As an aside, we’ve been asked many times if this harms the flour. Nope. Assuming you’ve washed the fruit (as well as your hands!), there is no sanitary issue. And, the ethylene gas the avocado produces is a natural gaseous plant hormone that is plentiful in our environment and does not harm the flour - or you.

So, depending on your preference and what supplies you have on hand, either the submerged flour or paper bag/apple approach works very well. So, the next time you want to enjoy a dish with avocado and you can only find unripened fruit, you can be eating a great dish the next day.

Oh, what about the one wrapped in plastic wrap? It was ready to use in about 72 hours. And the one that we did nothing at all? At 48 hours on the counter, it was ready to enjoy.

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