mleku on Nostr: the nice girl at the shop told me that the best way to make avocados ripen was to ...

the nice girl at the shop told me that the best way to make avocados ripen was to wrap them in paper and then in a plastic bag and in a dark place for a day or two

i figured that it's probably the same for bananas

so i ttried it, and indeed, bananas that were somewhat green and not quite ready to eat, today they are perfectly yellow and while the skin was a bit harder to open than i expected, the flesh was perfect, just one day

i had found previously that if you just hang them up like they seem to do in the shop, it's no good

turns out that the reason is the shop environment is dark at night, and not ventilated, so it is quite humid, and no air movement, so the bananas react to the ethylene oxide they emit and the enzymes get busy

i may have to get some avocados now, because it worked a treat on the nanas

bananas = potassium

avocados = MCTs

both are very good non-meat food items, and i've never known how to get them to ripen properly but this method works

i wrap them in kitchen towel, then in a plastic bag, put it in the cupboard in the dark, and next day, or maybe day after, done