If anyone can, surely STW can shed some light on this.
I can tell a bad one: brittle skin, a bit loose, and a touch hollow. However, sometimes a seemingly perfect specimen on the outside can, when opened, reveal itself to be a grey-green stringy mess on the inside. How mildly disappointing!
So, how does STW pick a good one?
[engages max STW mode]
Whilst a lot of the fruit and veg can be a bit variable, Waitrose "perfectly ripe" avos are almost always perfectly ripe.
All avocados are bad.
The only use for them is as projectiles for when the Kippers are in town 😉
So, how does STW pick a good one?
Give it a squeeze, it should yield 1 or 2 mm.
Put it in your fruit bowl with your bananas - should be perfectly ripe by the next morning. It will be over ripe by tea time.
Waitrose “perfectly ripe” avos are almost always perfectly ripe.
Almost being a key factor here. I find "perfectly ripe" to usually be a misnomer wherever you shop.
So are we saying we need to buy the day of, or day before, consumption?
Also, should the give be elastic in behaviour (springs back) or should it yield permanently?
buy the day of, or day before, consumption?
Day before, at latest. You can leave in the fridge in a half decent state for a while.
should the give be elastic in behaviour (springs back)
Yes. If it stays then it's over ripe.
Buy firm and use a bit squishy.
Unfortunately with avocados, science has proven you have roughly 18 minutes between "hard as the stone it cradles" and "mushy as Steven Hawkins supper".
HTH.
DrP
I buy them when you can squish the top by a few mm. Usually good to eat and fine for 48 hours. I keep them in the fridge at this point and keep them away from bananas. Aldi ripe and ready are usually reliable. I'd say this works about 80%.
if you can flick the stem off then it's ripe
That goes for women to right?
You check out where they come from.
All avocados are bad.
The only use for them is as projectiles for when the Kippers are in town 😉
Not so. Without them you wouldn’t have guacamole sauce!
Heathen.
This is why, when cooking, always substitute avocado’s with chips.
There’s no such thing as ‘bad’ chips.
And covering an avocado with salt, vinegar and ketchup would make it, somewhat implausibly, even badder
So it’s a no brainier really
You’re welcome... 😃
Does it look like an avocado? Give it a squeeze. Does it feel like an avocado? If yes to both, then put it down and move on.
Get some asparagus instead for max middle-class points. Works just as well with bacon.
I always end up picturing how many folks might have squeezed my chosen avocado. Probably quite a few before I've given it the squeeze of acceptance.
Get some asparagus instead for max middle-class points.
But you can’t make guacamole with asparagus!
Well, you could try, I guess, but it’ll almost certainly be foul.
Middle class? **** off. Working class me, doesn't mean I need to follow Binners 'guaranteed to make you look like Gammon' diet.
Lidl sourdough topped with avocado, garlic oil and a couple of poached eggs. Awesome breakfast.
Does it feel like an avocado? If yes to both, then put it down and move on.
Don't think of it as a food, just as a catalyst. By itself, it's nothing. Put it on some nice bread with cheese and smoked salmon/bacon/ham, sprinkle with salt and freshly ground black pepper, and it just sets the other ingredients off.