How to Ripen an Avocado Faster?

Avocado ripens naturally on it's own. When you leave it at room temperature (30°C), this fruit usually ripens in a matter of days. On the contrary, refrigerating an avocado slows down it's ripening.

How to Ripen an Avocado Faster?
How to Ripen an Avocado Faster?

@healthbiztips by Arlene Gentallan

If you'd like to speed up the process of ripening avocado, you can use several techniques.


How to Ripen an Avocado Fast?

1. The paper-bag technique

Wrap an avocado inside a paper-bag. The purpose of putting the avocado in paper is to prevent the odorless ethylene gas it naturally produces from completely escaping, thus accelerating the ripening process. Do not use plastic bag since this will not allow enough breathing space so your avocado will soak on it's own moisture.

Store your paper-wrapped avocado at room temperature. Ripening using this process can take 3 to 5 days.


2. Fruit Pals

If you'd like to accelerate the ripening of avocado even more, add two or more avocados inside the paper bag. This way, more ethylene gas will be produced which will make ripening faster.

If you only have a single unripe  avocado, you may place other fruits that emit ethylene gas instead like apple, banana and tomato. This process will ripen your avocado in 1 to 3 days.


3. Microwave Magic

If you'd like to speed up the process of ripening avocado to as short as 30 minutes, here's a trick you can use, although I have to warn you that this will have a noticeable impact to the taste of your avocado.

Wrap your avocado in aluminum foil then pop it in a microwave for about 15 to 30 minutes at 200° Fahrenheit. You'll have soft silky avocado in an instant.


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