Guacamole is one of the easiest and tastiest dishes you can make, and especially great for entertaining a crowd. This guide from Serious Eats tells us how to make sure avocados are perfectly ripe the day you want to turn them into guacamole.
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Avocados are pretty tricky when it comes to ripeness. You don’t want them under-ripe and you don’t want the dreaded brown spots and streaks either. Serious Eats says hard avocados will ripen between 3 to 5 days if stored in a brown paper bag, 2 to 3 days if you add a banana to the bag. But then once ripened, you only have about 2 days in room temperature or around 5 days in the fridge until the avocados start turning brown.
So if you want perfect avocados for a Sunday night event:
Buy them the Monday before, ripen them at room temperature in a brown paper bag and refrigerate them as soon as they soften.
If for some reason a bowl of guacamole doesn’t get devoured entirely, preserve the rest of the batch with chunks of red onion on top of it.
Hit up the link below for everything you might want to know about guacamole and avocados.
The Food Lab: The Best Guacamole (and the Science of Avocados) [Serious Eats]
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im hungry now
Have an avo!
Hmm, need to make me some guacamole!