You may have heard that placing avocados in a brown paper bag will help them ripen faster. Laenen confirms this method works, ...

We tested popular avocado-ripening methods to see which ways work and which ways don't.

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 ...

A certain sense of joy comes with cutting into a perfectly ripe avocado. You twist it open, feast your eyes on that smooth, beautiful green flesh, and simply have to show someone — either in person or ...

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 ...

According to Hernandez, guacamole should be stored like sliced or diced avocado: in a container with a lime juice-soaked paper towel and plastic film wrapped tightly over it. Again, the paper towel ...

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 ...