Difficulty: Easy
Instructions
Things You'll Need:
- Avocados
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Step 1
Allow hard avocados three to five days to ripen at room temperature. A ripe avocado is soft to the touch.
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Step 2
Store avocados in a paper bag. Put an apple in the bag to ripen them more quickly.
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Step 3
Store ripe avocados in the refrigerator for up to one week.
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Step 4
To remove the seed from an avocado, cut in half lengthwise (going around the pit), and separate the avocado into two halves. If the avocado is ripe, this should be easy. Lightly knock your knife into the pit, so that it sticks there. Give the knife a small turn to the right or left and lift up to remove the pit.
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Step 5
Scoop the flesh out of the shell or remove the peel (it should come off easily if the avocado is ripe) and slice.
Comments
alystarcrane said
on 6/16/2009 excellent concise info on storing avocados thx
Vegelink said
on 12/26/2008 Is there such a thing as a miniature avocado tree that can be grown indoors. It gets too cold where I live to grow outside.
zan711 said
on 5/7/2008 I read on the Internet that placing an unripe avacado in a bag of flour will ripen it over night. Yesterday, I was desperate. I needed 3 ripened by morning. I took a large paper bag and placed all 3 in the bag, then dumped approximately 1/2 bag of flour over them. I rolled up the bag as best I could and left it on the counter. This morning all 3 were perfectly ripe. I can't believe it! They were rock hard yesterday.
bigbluecape said
on 10/1/2007 I grew my California Avocado from a pit, I did not first start it in water, I simply put the pit in the ground in good soil, watered it every other day, and it is doing great! since then I have started five more that way. Don't know if it has anything to do with it, but I am in central Florida. My one tree that has been in the ground for about ten years, just produced fruit, about 50 to 60. we still water it regularly, and give it citrus/avocado fertalizer twice a year.
mosmat said
on 3/9/2007 I have grown an avocado tree - now about 3ft high with a large off shoot, by immersing the stone or pit in an egg cup of water, changing it daily and leaving on a sunny windowcill(inside)until it split and a root formed, then planting in compost.