A short YouTube how-to by Anzio Marcos (uploaded April 15, 2017) giving a quick kitchen tip: to ripen hard avocados faster, place them together with bananas inside a paper bag. The video explains that banana tips emit ethylene gas, which accelerates fruit ripening, and recommends exposing the banana tips to increase the effect.
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Hey, how's it going everyone? It's Anzio Marcos here and I want to share with you guys a tip on how to ripen your avocados a lot faster, right? So we go to the grocery stores and what we notice, right, all the avocados are rock solid and we're like, gosh, what the heck do I do with these? Right? But you don't have a choice to buy them because you want to keep them ready. Because who doesn't love their avocados? And what you want to do, actually, when you get avocados and you want to speed up the ripening, if you have bananas, right, you want to put mixing bananas with avocados in a paper bag. And what's actually occurring, what's causing that process for the avocados to ripen a lot faster is this right here. These tips of the bananas actually produce ethylene. And ethylene is like an off gas that actually helps with the ripening process. So isolating the avocados with the ethylene in a paper bag like that will help speed up this process. That's why, you see, they cover up the banana tips with these because they don't want it to ripen too fast, right? So if you actually take off these parts that are covering up the banana and expose that as close as possible, you know, that's your best bet right there. Alright, guys, so this is a quick and easy tip. It's a way I can get avocados ripe way faster. Alright? So hope you guys enjoy. Thanks again. Tuning out from the Living Proof Institute.