I was expecting the worst with this hack. I saw this posted several times this week and as with other hacks I’ve tried, I thought “oh, this is going to be a fun mess”.
When making my Superb Southwest Summer Salad I stopped by the store at the last minute for “ripe avocados” and as you’ve already guessed, there weren’t any. I picked up the rock hard avocados and figured this was as good a time as any to make a mess of things.
I bought 3 hard avocados and cut the first one in half just to see the difference. It was hard to cut, of course, and I tried to dice up a half and try a piece. Yup, just as suspected, a difficult activity in frivolity. And, it did’t taste good either.
I tried the hack on the second avocado. I preheated the oven to 200 degrees fahrenheit, wrapped the avocado in foil and placed in the center of the oven for 10 minutes.
I was very pleasantly surprised. It wasn’t hot, like I expected. It cut nicely, diced nicely and even tasted okay. I will always take a ripe avocado over this hack (something subtle about the taste and texture wasn’t perfect to me), but this will certainly work in a pinch.
I will be using this hack again!
Thank you for trying this so the rest of us can benefit. I’m laughing at the totally mundane and incredibly useful ingenuity of the avocado hack. I’m an avocado addict.
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My sister and I are both avocado addicts too! Who knew that all along there was a simple fix to the unripe avocado?
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