Ah, avocados. So delicious and yet such a drain of all our valuable funds.
But avocados are something else, too – really bloody infuriating. Why is there such a small window of opportunity to eat them? And how do you know when they’re ready?
Living in Los Angeles last year, I pretty much survived on avocado and eggs on toast for dinner most nights. It was a glamorous time of my life. You’d think that over the period of a year, I would have mastered the art of shopping for and eating avocados. No. No, I did not.
The Mamamia Out Loud team discusses the perfect hack for finding out if an avocado is good enough to eat. Post continues below.
There have been many, many times when I’ve bought an avocado thinking it was good to go, only to get home, cut it open and find it was either still unripe or it was too ripe. Those were the nights I questioned my life choices.
And apparently I’m not alone either. According to the ABC, research shows that 97 percent of people pick up avocados at the supermarket and give them a good squeeze to test them out before buying them, which is something you definitely should not do, as squeezing them will leave them brown and bruised. Who knew, right?
“Ninety per cent of bruising that occurs is from retail and home. When they’re selecting an avocado, people squeeze them too hard,” Jennie Franceschi, an avocado packer, marketer and exporter told ABC News.
Top Comments
Fabulous! Now let's train everyone else.
Otherwise, we'll still be buying perfect-to-eat avocados with brown finger-sized spots all over.