Have you fallen for this avocado trick too?

Finding the perfect avocado when buying an avocado is a feat.

There is a trick to making avocados that are too hard to ripen faster.

• Avocados

  * have experienced a boom as a superfood in recent years.

• For proper storage and use of

  Avocados circulate many tips and instructions on the net.

• You can safely save yourself a trick for ripening avocados.

Who does not know it: You still buy quite

because you don't want to use them for a few days anyway.

Until then they will definitely ripen and be nice and soft, right?

But what do you do when friends have spontaneously announced themselves to whom you want to offer a delicious guacamole?

Or if the fruit is still rock-hard days after shopping?

There are many tricks and tips on the internet, especially on social media platforms, on how to make unripe avocados ready to eat.

Have you heard of the

?

Also read: This is why you should no longer cut avocados with a normal knife

Ripe avocado in the oven

It sounds so simple: preheat the oven to 90 degrees Celsius, wrap the avocado in aluminum foil and put it in the oven.

The avocado should be nice and soft within 10-20 minutes.

In theory, the

cause

the fruit to

its ripening gas.

And in practice?

Various tests with this trick report that even after an extended period in the oven, the avocado was still rock-hard.

No trace of soft and creamy.

Instead, the skin and

, which makes the avocado no longer visually appealing.

Unfortunately, the trick doesn't work.

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Tips for post-ripening avocados

What works well, on the other hand, to allow an unripe avocado to ripen: Place the avocado in a

with an apple or banana

or wrap it in newspaper.

After

, the superfood is finally nice and soft and ready to be processed into guacamole.

For this method you have to plan a few days in advance.

Or you can buy your avocados at the right degree of ripeness.

How do you recognize ripe avocados?

You can use

the

find out whether an

.

But you shouldn't just press the fruit in with a finger - that leaves unsightly spots.

Instead, take the entire avocado in your hand and gently squeeze it.

The peel should give a little, but not stay pressed in afterwards.

If the avocado doesn't give in at all, you know that it is still too hard and unripe.

If there are visible bruises, the pulp is probably too mushy and you should leave the avocado alone.

Read more: Finally: Never fall for unripe avocados again!