Unripe avocado? what can I do?

[neostudded]

I just bought seven avocados tonight before the shops shut. Because I ran out but all of them were very firm.

I use it as butter on corn thin's and I really wanted to have some corn thins so I found the softest one and cut it in half, it was not ripe and has an unripe smell.

I blended it up to make it easier to put on the corn thins but now I am not sure I want to "risk" tasting them.

Is it okay to eat an unripe avocado?

It smells like it would taste all "plant" like and "tangy".

Thanks

[confusd]

if you have any ripe or over ripe banana's put the avocados next to them. it will make the ripen up quicker.

un-ripe avocado isnt to tasty and its really hard to spread. i guess you coud say it tastes leafy:confused:

ETA: sorry totally missed the part where you said you blended it up

[SilverStarfish]

There's nothing poisonous or bad about unripe avocados - other than they taste like cr@p... something that you are about to learn the hard way if you haven't read this thread already :laughing:

You'll have to leave them to ripen before you eat them. You might be able to speed it up a little by placing the avocado in a brown paper bag with a ripe banana. Bananas give off a ethylene as they ripen, which helps other fruit to ripen faster.

That's why fruit in a bowl with bananas will go off faster than when they are on their own.

[studyingECS]

They don't taste very nice unripe:no:, I have tried to eat them unripe so many times because I was to impatient to wait for them to ripen:o

[codswallop]

its ok to eat but its just a little blah to eat
wrap the others up in paper (brown paper bags or news paper works best) with a banana if you have one, leave them in a warm sunny place and they should be fine within a day
if yo find the one youve already blended is to blah to eat add a little taco seasoning to it!

[Mahjong]

Sticking them in a paper bag with an apple works well too :thumbsup:

[westerner]

You'll have to leave them to ripen before you eat them. You might be able to speed it up a little by placing the avocado in a brown paper bag with a ripe banana. Bananas give off a ethylene as they ripen, which helps other fruit to ripen faster.


Or a carrot.. :thumbsup:

[Lilyloo]

Wow.. I never knew the banana in the paper bag trick! All my avacodos are unripe too.. are they going out of season??:confused: Just my luck if they are, as it's the only thing my DD eats!!! lol

[~Emmylou~]

I don't even worry about the paper bag. I just put mine next to bananas in the fruit bowl and they still ripen up pretty quickly :thumbsup:

[mumofKieran]

I don't even worry about the paper bag. I just put mine next to bananas in the fruit bowl and they still ripen up pretty quickly :thumbsup:

I agree. Sitting them next to bananas will ripen them in no time at all. You can ripen any fruit by sitting it next to bananas.