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?

[aGnotherGnu]

YANBU btw

[MrButtercat]

I only buy Sainsbos £2 for 2 ripe and ready and then keep them in the fridge.

The seem to keep for ages and be just right whenever I use them.

Had spent years of mouldering avocados nicely in the fruit bowl.

[AppleYumYum]

Anyone watch Jimmy's Food Unwrapped this week, about how they do ripe and ready avocados? Love that show, watch the avocado bit: www.channel4.com/programmes/food-unwrapped/4od

[AppleYumYum]

Oops Twostep already mentioned, I find that girl strangely appealing though, I like her style. Those poor cafe hens made me v sad ??

[AppleYumYum]

Cafe! They wish they were in a cafe! Stupid autocorrect - cage!

[Fakebook]

Why are ready to eat peaches and nectarines more expensive in supermarkets? I buy fruit like this from the market. It's better quality and edible on the day.

[MrButtercat]

Captive audience I guess.

Basically if you want many edible f&v you can eat straight away they expect you to pay extra.

Mangos are another case in point,pointless buying non ripe and ready as they're horrible ditto nectarines.

Supermarkets want pile em high with extra shelf life so much of what they stock is under ripe.

[MrButtercat]

I'm guessing they lose more ripe and ready so you pay extra to cover that.

My own theory though.

[Fakebook]

I never thought of that MrButtercat.

[AppleYumYum]

No from the Food Unwrapped program they showed the avocados being picked in Spain rock hard and they are kept at 5 degrees until they reach a big warehouse in Spain. Then they go in a big sealed room kept at 20 degrees for a few days with the same (I can't remember which ones) gasses/air concentration as basically a ripe banana gives off, until they are almost ripe but they need a few days travel time to the uk up their sleeve so they are right once they hit the shelves. You are paying for the extra attention they receive.

[mignonette]

I rant and rave at the 'ripen at home' labels. No, peaches/nectarines/apricots et al get softer at home but once off the tree they do not sweeten and increase their sugar content. Only Bananas and avocados truly develop flavour intensity. Read Geoffrey Steingarten's editorial on the science of fruit ripening in his food writing columns. It is illuminating.

It is suck a fucking con.

[Twostep]

Quite often 'ripen at home' stuff ends up in the bin or made into jam! Soft fruits either stay rock hard if kept in the fridge and end up juiceless or of they are in the fruit bowl turn into mush the minute you turn your back! Oranges just lurk quietly then get mouldy bottoms.

You can only rely on grapes, berries and bananas to be predictable.

Failing that, eat chocolate. I never have a problem with that. Or toffee.

[aGnotherGnu]

Ethene, that's what ripens it.

twostep you could be onto something there :o

[VodIsGod]

First world problems....

[monkeywrench]

www.yumsugar.com/How-Tell-Avocado-Ripe-16132798

[olidusUrsus]

Never watched Food Unwrapped, don't think I could bear it! Try Britain's Favourite Supermarket Foods if you feel like some torture.

[SelfconfessedSpoonyFucker]

"I rant and rave at the 'ripen at home' labels. No, peaches/nectarines/apricots et al get softer at home but once off the tree they do not sweeten and increase their sugar content. Only Bananas and avocados truly develop flavour intensity. Read Geoffrey Steingarten's editorial on the science of fruit ripening in his food writing columns. It is illuminating."

Mangoes taste a lot better if left to sweeten. We buy a box of ten from costco and I always buy a box with some underripe and some almost and one ripe. They taste like turps if you don't let them ripen.

[SelfconfessedSpoonyFucker]

Oh and it isn't just mangoes, avocadoes and bananas

www.quisqualis.com/Climacteric.html

a peach is climacteric, so it will ripen off the tree.