AIBU to think that when I buy ready to eat avocados they should be ready to eat?

[GermanGirlinLDN]

So annoying. Bought three ready to eat avocados a week ago, they are still hard and I can't eat them yet.

So AIBU so expect to be able to eat the avocados just after I bought them?

YANBU! This really grates my carrot too.

I've given up buying them for this reason!

Tesco? I gave up buying them too

This really grinds my gears. Also, they are sometimes so ripe that they are just manky and rotten.

There is only one split second in the life of an avocado between it being too hard and too ripe. I stay up all night whenever I buy one just to make sure I don't miss it.

No Waitrose.

YANBU! Peaches and nectarines too, the hard bastards.

YABU. Avocado is horrible.

Asda is bad for this. Peaches, nectarines, avocados - all as hard as bullets. I buy fruit and vegetables from the market these days to ensure you can actually eat some when you get home.

Oh, and if you do buy 'ready to eat', they're more expensive.

Put them next to some ripe bananas

Put them in a paper bag with some bananas, that'll ripen them up nicely.

Avocadoes are contrary little fuckers. All in their own sweet time. If I didn't love them so much I'd tell them to get lost.

Put it with a ripe banana!

Ha, but that requires ripe bananas! If there is a yellow stage between green and brown I rarely seem to catch it.

YANBU!

The last 3 I bought from Waitrose were either off inside or stone hard.

I hate fruit actually. The bloody monitoring involved. Give me a vegetable - usable one way or another until they actually get furry.

I dunno MadBusLady I went to use a shallot yesterday, freshly delivered, and it was bloody mouldy!

Eulch! I did once have a mouldy onion from Waitrose now I think about it. I didn't even know onions could get moudly.

Scotmid Co-op is pretty good for this - if I want to use an avocado that day I buy it at my local Scotmid.

YABU for trusting the avocados without squeezing them before you buy! A little squeeze tells you all you need to know

They are like pears and nectarines.
They at only ripe for 3 minutes then they rot.
:(

I love avocados, as high maintenance as they are they are so worth it. That lovely yielding flesh. Mmmmmmmm

Avocados will only ripen once they've come off their parent tree, so whilst an apple might be 3/4 ripe by the time it is picked and then is in your supermarket within a few days, a freshly picked avocado STILL has a lot of work to do.

The poor little blighters!!

German Wrap the avocados in paper (newspaper or kitchen towel) leave them in a dark cool place (cupboard?) and they will be ready to eat in a day or two.

You can genlty squeeze them before you buy them, but this will leave them with a bruis. Trust me, I am Southamerican and I have been eating them since I was a baby probably.

this really does my swede in too!

I love avocados but they don't love me . I know what you mean though I've had ready to eat nectarines, they lied, they were ready to eat a week later.