Have you noticed that supermarket fruit can be as hard as a brick? Food is picked way before it’s ready to eat to allow for travel time. Here’s a super-speedy way to ripe fruit…
Many fruits—including apples, pears, peaches, avocados and tomatoes—will ripen faster in a brown paper bag. The paper bag helps the natural fruit-ripening gases do their job.
How to speed up the ripening process: To gas up those gases, add a banana to the paper bag. Bananas release the extra ethylene needed to make fruit ripe…works great if you need guacamole fast (like in a day, depending on how ripe your avocadoes are to begin with)! Just remember to check your paper bag every day so that your fruit does not become mushy and overripe.
More help with food storage…
• 12 Tricks to Keep Food Fresh Longer
