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LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Don’t know if it’s worth mentioning but if an avocado is hard when I wake up, and I know I’m trying to make Mexican food that night, I just shoot it in a paper bag with whatever fruit I’ve got laying by and it usually does seem to help. Or it’s all in my head. People claim bananas and apples work best. I usually keep a bag of apples around if i can, so I use that.

It’s some horseshit about trapping gases in the bag, but letting oxygen flow through… Idk

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ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Ethylene is a chemical that acts as a plant hormone, ripening fruits exposed to it. Apples however, seem to also produce/emit ethylene, hastening the ripening process. Putting ripe apples in a container with unripe fruit does in fact help ripen the rest of the fruit.

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- LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Yeah, I’ve been told the paper bag helps that it still gets some oxygen, making it “ripen” more and rot less
  
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  - Cliff@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I think it might be more about humidity not being trapped with the fruits.
    
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slothrop@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
bananas are the fruit you want; they help ripen tomatoes, though not in a day.

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- LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Apple and Bananas both emit the chemical apparently.
  
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halvar@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
seems like witchcraft

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- LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  When someone says something is witchcraft it just makes me want to practice it
  
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