How to Pick Out an Avocado

Video Transcript

"Today we're going to talk about how to pick out a fresh avocado. A lot of the times these are not fresh when you're picking them up from the store. It's kind of difficult to find a fresh one actually at the store. You want them to be soft, pretty soft. These ones are all very solid. Not ripe. It's going to take a lot longer for these to ripen. You do want to stay away from anything like that. Any kind of bad spots, mold, little cuts like that one has a little cut on it, anything like that on the skin isn't going to be that big of a deal because it's just on the skin it's not really going to damage your fruit too much. Since it is kind of hard to find a nice, ripe avocado at the store, because they're all going to be pretty solid and you want them to be soft, pretty soft. There are a few methods you can do to speed up the process. Just putting them in any kind of glass jar, under a jar, you know, in any kind of Mason jar is going to speed it up. You let them sit in there for two or three days and they should start to soften up and get a little more ripe, faster anyway than just letting them sit out. Another thing you could do is put a few of them into a bag of flour and wait two or three days and that should speed up the ripening process as well."