You may have heard that placing avocados in a brown paper bag will help them ripen faster. Laenen confirms this method works, but placing avocados and bananas in the paper bag together is a better ...

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 ...

We tested popular avocado-ripening methods to see which ways work and which ways don't.

A certain sense of joy comes with cutting into a perfectly ripe avocado. You twist it open, feast your eyes on that smooth, beautiful green flesh, and simply have to show someone — either in person or ...

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 ...

Placing unripe avocados in a paper bag with fruit that gives off ethylene gas ripens them the fastest. Using a ripe banana edged out an apple by two days, but either method works. Heating avocados ...