Here are a few tricks for getting around the avocado waiting game.
But unlike any sort of storybook character or chimerical creature, the perfectly ripe avocado can actually be conjured at home, with enough foresight.
We tested four popular methods—and if you're here now, chances are you don't have much more time to spare. So let's get to it."Can you really ripen an avocado in just 10 minutes?" The only hitch: the final product was uneven in texture, watery, lacking flavor, and in the words of Senior Editor Eric Kim, the embodiment of"that disappointing feeling you get when you cut an avocado too early.""Do not microwave your avocados or put your avocados in the oven to try to ripen them faster,"."If you do, the microwave or oven may soften the flesh of the fruit a little which may make it ‘seem’ ripe, but it isn’t.