How can I get an avocado to ripen quicker?

Answer 1

Selecting Fresh Fruit

* When selecting an avocado, look for the Fresh California Avocado Brand, your assurance that the fruit was grown under the best conditions possible.
* The best way to tell if a California avocado is ready for immediate use is to gently squeeze the fruit in the palm of your hand. Ripe, ready-to-eat fruit will be firm yet will yield to gentle pressure.
* Color alone may not tell the whole story. The Hass avocado will turn dark green or black as it ripens, but other varieties retain their light-green skin even when ripe.
* If you plan to serve the fruit in a few days, stock up on hard, unripened fruit.
* Avoid fruit with dark blemishes on the skin or over soft fruit.

Ripening a California Avocado

* To ripen a California avocado, place the fruit in a plain brown paper bag and store at room temperature 65-75% until ready to eat (usually two to five days).
* Including an apple or banana in the bag accelerates the process because these fruits give off ethylene gas, a ripening reagent.
* Soft ripe fruit can be refrigerated until it is eaten, but not for more than two or three days.
* The California Avocado Commission does not recommend using a microwave to accelerate the ripening process.

Avocados are one fruit that ripens off the tree.
Instructions

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STEP 1: Allow hard avocados three to five days to ripen at room temperature. A ripe avocado is soft to the touch.
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STEP 2: Store avocados in a paper bag. Put an apple in the bag to ripen them more quickly.
* STEP 3: Store ripe avocados in the refrigerator for up to one week.
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STEP 4: To remove the seed from an avocado, cut in half lengthwise (going around the pit), and separate the avocado into two halves. If the avocado is ripe, this should be easy. Lightly knock your knife into the pit, so that it sticks there. Give the knife a small turn to the right or left and lift up to remove the pit.
* STEP 5: Scoop the flesh out of the shell or remove the peel (it should come off easily if the avocado is ripe) and slice.

Tips & Warnings

* Keep cut avocados fresh by sprinkling lemon or lime juice on the slices. Avocado will turn brown otherwise.
* Avocados do not freeze well.

Answer 2

put in bowl in a warm place with other ripe or semi ripe fruit, bananas are the best. All fruits ripen better when with other ripening fruits, has to do with gases released by the ripening process.

Answer 3

Put it in a brown paper bag and close it, and leave it on the counter for a day or two until it's as ripe as you want or need.

Answer 4

Put it in a brown paper bag at room temp.

Answer 5

Put it in a paper bag or a dark place in your kitchen. Always works for me.

Answer 6

put in brown paper bag and leave it overnight..

Answer 7

brown bag it...it'll be ripe the next day