DH always takes the best banana

[Oysterbabe]

If in the fruit bowl there is a new bunch of bananas of optimum ripeness and one leftover from the last bunch, which is a day past it's best, he always takes a new one. The old banana is not unpleasant by any stretch, I'm talking about maybe a few tiny brown speckles on the skin, still reasonably firm. I think you should always take the most ripe banana to reduce the chance of waste. He will always take the nicest banana. I think it's because I grew up poor and he was wealthy. He would think nothing of throwing the banana he doesn't want in the bin, I can't stand the waste.

Yanbu - you should always eat the most ripe banana
Yabu - you should take the banana that appeals to you most

Please help me with this incredibly important issue.

(Don't come at me with banana bread. I already have loads of bananas in the freezer awaiting breading)

There is a huge difference in taste, I would enjoy a new firm one, not a slightly old one.

The problem is you are buying too many bananas. It is just as wasteful to eat food you don't want as it is to throw it away

This is why banana bread was invented

Or mashed banana

I'm with him, I don't like bananas so much when they start to go brown.

Take the overripe bananas. Make banana bread and don't share it

I'm with you. I would always take the one that was slightly brown and start on the new bunch the next day.

Another vote for banana bread. Yum.

Or mashed banana on toast. Also banana sandwiches also delicious.

Also, keeping the riper banana beside the newer ones, will make the newer ones go riper faster

Amazing thread!!! Made me giggle.

YANBU. This happens here too. No bastard eats the oldest banana except me.

but then that bunch will be going brown before it was finished too, and that is even more waste

So do I 😁

There is no place in the world for overripe bananas. Or them into lollies and ‘ice-cream’ and force then on your children as a healthy option / move over Ella.

Banana buttermilk smoothie. Yum yum.

I would start on new perfect ones and freeze this one or use it in milkshake etc.
Perfect fruit and veg for munching, less perfect used up differently

It is very difficult to buy the correct amount of bananas due to ridiculous children who will eat 3 a day or none at all for a week and nothing in between.

OP: (Don't come at me with banana bread. I already have loads of bananas in the freezer awaiting breading)

50 million MNers: Make banana bread

Dear, dear.

I agree you're probably buying too many bananas, but this is a tricky time of year for bananas. They can ripen very fast. On the other hand, I had a bunch of ripen at home bananas that arrived here last Thursday and never ripened. Very, very green. I tried one this morning and had to stop as it was so unpleasant. I then had to do something I rarely do and throw food away.

I wouldn’t eat a brown slickly one, yeuch! YABVVVVVVU, you should eat all the manky old bananas in the whole world

Give me your black bananas - I buy them and let them go as dark as possible before using - for cooking.

Slice the banana and heat it up in honey. Have with homemade pancakes. Don't give any to DH.

My horses share the last manky one in the bowl. They eat it with the skin on too

Maybe just buy 3 or 4 bananas at a time rather than a load that end up going manky

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g : Ripen by pricking skin with a fork and microwave in 30 second bursts until it's as soft/ripe as you want it.
Let it cool before eating.

Whizz it with some yoghurt, frozen berries, peach to sweeten a smoothie. You can't really taste the banana because of the other fruits.

You’re technically right, but I also think banana bread is the answer