How to ripen a rock-hard avocado in 10 minutes

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Spot on.

Yeah, baby!

*lolz

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Aaaaaack, my eeeyyyyyyyyes!

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*lolz

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Ripening of avocados (as with other fruit) is not simply a degenerative process. There is active protein and nucleic acid synthesis going on during ripening process which results in not just a softening of the fruit, but vast changes to the aroma compounds present in it.

All rapid heating will do is give you a soft unripe avocado.

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Wait, isn’t that @japhroaig’s brother? Do we not know that japhroaig is built more like this?

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Dem avocados look ripe!

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Is this the ‘Questions’ thread?

*lolz

Anyhoos, I avoided picking that image because it’s one of the most common, and the one I chose is more aesthetically pleasing to me, personally.

But then again, nearly everything I post is to please myself - case in point:

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:slight_smile:

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Now you’re just being ridiculous. It was the cereal aisle.

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So you’re admitting that you’re a cereal whipits huffer?

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You just “do” whip-its. You huff paint thinner and markers and auto exhaust and glue and…

(never done any of these things as a teenager or kindergartener)

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I’ve got better legs. Rawr!! :smiley:

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In my experience, getting the avocado warm works well, but actually cooking them results in some horrendous transformation that makes them taste bad. So, if avocado is included in a recipe, add at the end so it just gets warm.[quote=“Grey_Devil, post:24, topic:77279”]
i’ve had deep fried avocados which were amazing
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Frying is apparently its own special magic that negates the ick-transformation of cooking an avocado.

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I still have a hunch that non-deep fried, cooked/grilled unripe avocados could somehow work. Perhaps sliced paper thin, blasted with a torch, and served as a vegan carpaccio. They have a starchy, grassy flavor, but perhaps served with either a flavor friend (acid and sweet, perhaps a balsamic) or something similar (marinated artichoke hearts) it could be good.

Just thinkin’ out loud :slight_smile:

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Yum, that sounds good. I’ll have to run it by my personal chef, er, husband.

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Hay, I need one of those! Well, not a husband, but a personal chef! :smiley:

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You don’t need to use this cheap trick if you use the right guac bowle.

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Ripe in the sense that gas chamber tomatoes are ripe?

Yuck.

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Now I’m kinda bummed I didn’t avocado with my Safeway sushi.

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Holy guacamole!

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“10 minutes”. Well, whatever to heat the oven to 250C, the 10 _to 15_minutes.

Not at all helpful…