A pile of bright green unripe avocados with purple stickers. - Oscar Wong/Getty Images Avocados are a finicky fruit. You pick out the perfect one at the grocery store, and by the time you get home, it ...

If you have a hard avocado and you need it to be soft in a day or so, simply place it in a brown paper bag with a banana or apple and fold the top to close it up. The natural ethylene gases emitted by ...

What's the secret to perfect guacamole and the best avocado toast? The answer is easy: ripe avocados! The only problem is that, more often than not, they're rock hard when you buy them in the grocery ...

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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 ...

According to Hernandez, guacamole should be stored like sliced or diced avocado: in a container with a lime juice-soaked ...

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