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

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 ...

What's the secret to perfect guacamole and the best avocado toast? The answer is easy: ripe avocados! The only problem is that, more often than not, they're rock hard when you buy them in the grocery ...

We tested popular avocado-ripening methods to see which ways work and which ways don't.

With avocados, what you see -- a dark, rough exterior that may have helped to earn the fruit its nickname of alligator pear -- isn't exactly what you get when you cut them open. Inside, you're hoping ...

If you have a hard avocado and you need it to be soft in a day or so, simply place it in a brown paper bag with a banana or apple and fold the top to close it up. The natural ethylene gases emitted by ...

A certain sense of joy comes with cutting into a perfectly ripe avocado. You twist it open, feast your eyes on that smooth, beautiful green flesh, and simply have to show someone — either in person or ...

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