Lifehack: this is how to ripen your avocado faster

In the category ‘it can't get more annoying for a millennial’: the too hard avocado. In the category ‘it apparently can get more annoying’: the too hard avocado that you try to cut and eat. Get-the-hell-out-of-here, pardon my French. But leave it to our neighbors at FavorFlav to solve this kind of world problem, we present you the lifehack.

1. Oven

All you need is an oven, aluminum foil, and baking paper. Preheat the oven to 90 degrees, wrap the avocado in aluminum foil and place it on a rack with baking paper. While the avocado warms up in the oven, the aluminum foil ensures that the ethylene gas released stays close to the avocado. That gas promotes ripening. After about 10 to 15 minutes, it will be ready, depending on how ‘ripe‘ the avocado was before the process. Let it cool in the fridge afterwards.

2. Paper bag

If you're not in a hurry with the avocado, put it in a paper bag, seal it, and store it at room temperature. The paper bag ensures that the ethylene gas released by an avocado stays in one place, speeding up the ripening process. In about four days, your avocado should be ripe.

3. Extra fruit

Do the same as above, but add a banana. Since a banana also releases ethylene gas, the process will go twice as fast. After two days, you'll have a ripe avocado and banana.

Text: FavorFlav