How do you know when avocados are ripe to eat ??

Answer 1

A ripe avocado is relatively firm, but will yield to gentle pressure when held in the palm of the hand and squeezed. Colour cannot always be trusted to determine whether or not an avocado is ripe. Indeed, the squeeze test is the most accurate.

Answer 2

If you touch them with your thumb, ripe avocados are soft, but the thumb print left behind is very shallow, not deep.

Answer 3

They should be a bit soft when squeezed gently. Not too mushy, but not hard as a rock, either. Just a bit soft is perfect.

Answer 4

When you feel the avocados are beginning to soften.

Answer 5

When you feel them and they are soft and kinda sqiushy. Their skin isn't so tight and hard but soft and kinda mushy. That's when they are ripe.

Answer 6

Their a bit soft to touch

Answer 7

when they are a dark blackish green and soft, but not too soft!
P.S. I must be eating mine sorta rotten because I buy them when they are a real dark color, almost black! Ya mean they are to be green when eaten??????

Answer 8

They give in to SLIGHT pressure when you press them. (If they smoosh in when you press them, then they are beyond ripe, and they might even be a bit rotten [they have a fishy smell when they're rotten--that, and they'll be blackened].)

Answer 9

They're soft on the outside. Not too soft, but not stiff.

Answer 10

unripe are hard, the ripening process can vary depending on temp, wrapping them in newspaper also speeds this up the best way to learn is buy 3 when you feel one soften eat it........ then the day after feel another then eat that .......then the day after that.....