bananas
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Rapidly Ripen Bananas For Baking With Egg Yolks
If your baking recipe requires some ripe bananas and all you have is some near-green ones, a few egg yolks can save the day.
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It’s Not Impossible To Peel A Frozen Banana
Ideally bananas should be peeled before freezing, but the world is not an ideal place, and I have been known to lazily chuck an unpeeled banana in the freezer. I thought this meant having to wait for the thing to thaw before peeling, but it turns out there is an easy way to peel a…
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Classic Hacks: Use Bananas To Control Fruit Ripening
I have a bowl full of bananas going brown at home, so once again dug through the archives for a solution. Turns out it’s easy — bananas separated at the top will ripen more slowly, because of a gas they emit called ‘ethylene’.
