A pile of bright green unripe avocados with purple stickers. - Oscar Wong/Getty Images Avocados are a finicky fruit. You pick out the perfect one at the grocery store, and by the time you get home, it ...

Placing unripe avocados in a paper bag with fruit that gives off ethylene gas ripens them the fastest. Using a ripe banana edged out an apple by two days, but either method works. Heating avocados ...

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Avocados are a finicky fruit. You pick out the perfect one at the grocery store, and by the time you get home, it's gone soft. If you plan to use it on the day you buy it, you're usually at the mercy ...