How to ripen avocados – clever hack to make them soft and ready to eat

They wrote: “At the end of the first day this avocado was softer than all but one of the other avocados, but still wasn’t quite ripe. By noon on the second day, though, this avocado was perfectly ripe!”

The banana ripened as well, so both were ready to eat. 

You can place an apple in the paper bag as well. Using a Honeycrisp quickened the ripening process to about a day and a half as well.