Speed up your avocado ripening with mum's 10-minute oven hack
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Storing avocados in a paper bag with an apple or banana can speed up their ripening, but for those in a real hurry, there's a quicker trick that can ripen avocados in just 10 minutes. TikTok user @lorafied shared a viral hack on how to achieve this by using the oven. In her video, Lora explains: "Insane avocado hack. Ripen an avocado in 10 minutes. Let me know if you try it." She demonstrates by wrapping a "hard avocado" in tin foil and placing it into a preheated oven for 10 minutes.
The science behind it is that avocados emit ethylene gas, which encourages ripening, and the foil traps this gas around the fruit, reports the Express. As the gas builds up, it accelerates the ripening process. The combination of the oven's heat and the ethylene gas softens the avocado.
For this method, the oven should be set at 200F/180 fan/gas mark 4. After removing the avocado from the oven, Lora cuts it open to reveal it has ripened perfectly. One TikTok user questioned whether the oven-ripened avocado tasted as good as naturally ripened ones, to which Lora responded: "Yes it does.".
Lora noted that while this technique worked well for her demonstration, some avocados might be "tougher than others" and could need "up to an hour" in the oven. If you're looking to keep your ripe avocados fresh, the best way is to store them whole in an airtight container in the fridge.
