Fruit Shopping
How to Choose a Ripe Avocado for Today or Later
Choose a ripe avocado by matching even firmness to the day you will use it.
Fruit Shopping
Good fruit shopping is mostly careful observation, not secret produce-bin wizardry. These guides explain useful cues while leaving room for variety and season.
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How to Choose Ripe Fruit Without One Magic Test
Choose ripe fruit by combining several clues rather than trusting one shortcut. Reject leaking, moldy, deeply bruised, or badly damaged pieces first.
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How to Choose a Ripe Mango Without Squeezing It Silly
To choose a ripe mango, first decide when you will eat it. A mango for today should yield slightly under very gentle pressure and may smell sweet and…
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How to Choose Ripe Peaches for the Day You Need Them
Choose peaches free of bruises, breaks, leaks and decay. Look past the red blush to the background color: cream or gold is more useful than green.
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How to Choose a Ripe Pineapple Using Several Cues
Choose a pineapple that is free of cracks, leaks, decay and soft patches, then compare sound fruit of similar size.
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How to Choose a Ripe Watermelon at the Store
Choose a watermelon without cracks, bruises, leaks or soft patches, then compare sound melons of similar size.
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How to Ripen an Avocado at Home and Check It
Ripen a sound, mature avocado at room temperature and check it daily with one broad, gentle palm test.
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How to Ripen Bananas for Different Days of the Week
Ripen bananas for different days by sorting them into use-soon, use-next, and use-later groups based on current color, firmness, aroma, and condition.
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How to Ripen Fruit at Home Without Guessing
Ripen only physiologically mature fruit that can continue after harvest, such as bananas, avocados, kiwifruit, peaches, pears, plums and tomatoes.
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How to Ripen Kiwi at Home Without Losing Track
Ripen sound, firm full-size kiwifruit at room temperature and check it daily with one broad, gentle pressure test.
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How to Ripen Pears at Home and Catch the Right Moment
Ripen firm European pears at room temperature and check the narrow neck beside the stem every day.