Stop Buying Bad Avocados

Four avocados. Four completely different outcomes. 1. Rock hard and bright green means 4 to 5 days on your counter. 2. Dark but still firm means 1 to 2 days. 3. Dark and lightly soft means eat it today. 4. Dark and mushy means you already lost. Here's the part the chart misses. Color only works for Hass avocados. Fuerte and Reed stay green when ripe, so squeezing beats looking. The free test nobody uses: flick off the little stem nub. Green underneath means perfect. Brown means brown inside. Want it faster? Paper bag with a banana. The ethylene cuts a day or two off. Already ripe? Fridge buys you 3 more days. Which stage is sitting in your kitchen right now? - #avocado - #guacamole - #kitchentips