Guacamole lovers around the globe are all too familiar with the panic and desperation that descends when realizing that their avocados won’t magically ripen in the hour left before taco night. But you ...

With avocados, what you see -- a dark, rough exterior that may have helped to earn the fruit its nickname of alligator pear -- isn't exactly what you get when you cut them open. Inside, you're hoping ...

Struggling with hard avocados? Several simple home methods can speed up ripening. From natural room-temperature softening to using paper bags with bananas or apples for a quick boost, you can achieve ...

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 ...

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 ...

Avocados are fickle. Sometimes they seem to be ready for consumption but then hard as a rock when cut into. Other times avocados look like they’ll be rotten before you get them home. This ...

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