Very often, unripe avocados can be found on store shelves. And this is understandable, because ripe avocados are stored for a very short time. You can no doubt buy unripe avocados, because there are several ways to speed up the ripening process at home.
An unripe avocado is a dubious pleasure, there will be no bright taste sensations, rather the opposite. Therefore, you should use only ripe, ready-to-eat avocado fruit, then you can feel all the charm of its taste.
If you bought an unripe avocado and need to speed up the ripening process, the following tips will help you. Take a paper bag and an avocado. For fruit ripening, a place protected from direct sunlight and a temperature of 19-24 ° C is suitable. The ripening of avocados is facilitated by ethylene gas. To provide the necessary conditions for the ripening of this fruit, you must put it in a paper bag and close it tightly. In this case, the process will take 2 to 5 days.
If you want to speed up the process even more, you can put a banana, apple or tomato in a paper bag with an avocado. These fruits give off a large amount of ethylene gas, which aids in ripening. The more of these fruits you put with the avocado, the sooner it will ripen. With this method, it will take 1 to 3 days for an avocado to ripen.
Ripe avocado acquires dark shades on the skin, becomes soft to the touch, and is very easy to clean. If the avocado is ripe, the peel is easily removed by itself, you just need to pry it off with a knife and remove it. The pulp of a ripe avocado is soft, oily, the stone is easily removed.
Ripe avocados are stored in the refrigerator for 1-2 days, during which time it must be used, as over time it loses its taste.
If you had to cut an unripe avocado, that's okay. The open parts of the pulp must be sprinkled with citric acid or lime, connect the parts of the fruit, wrap with cling film and put in the refrigerator. Ripening should be checked in the same way by touch.
If you do not make attempts to promote the rapid ripening of the avocado and put it at room temperature, it will ripen up to 6-7 days.
