Edit: 10/23 I took a lot of advice from here, I bought an avocado yesterday and I tried it today. It was perfect! The taste was incredible. I didn’t need to salt/season it to hide anything. I am in a different state right now but when I get home I’ll buy one at home using my knowledge I now have and hopefully it’ll be perfect. Maybe I was picking out the wrong avocados & there’s nothing wrong with me. We’ll see, but I’m excited to have a good tasting avocado for the first time in a long time.
Edit: I’m reading your replies I promise. The app I’m using is bugging out and it’s not letting me reply. I’ll log in on the browser later and reply. Thank you everyone!
I love Avocado. When I go to the store I’ll pick out a green one that’s firm, and I’ll eat it once it starts to get slightly soft. The problem is more than 90% of the time they’re no good. They have a gross taste, almost like it’s spoiled. I can’t blame the store, I’ve tried Aldi, Walmart, Kroger, Trader Joe’s and they all have the weird gross taste. Maybe it’s the supplier, the type of avocado (hass i believe) or maybe it’s just me. By the way the only reason I try and try again is because our avocados are cheap. .65-85 cents and I get one a week. (Maybe my region is getting garbage avocados?)
Anytime I go to a restaurant and order anything with avocado, it’s always perfection. I would rather eat a good avocado than any desert and this is coming from someone who loves desert and doesn’t eat as many fruits or vegetables as I should.
So what should I be doing to get a good avocado from the grocery store?
I’ve tried googling and following those directions but nothings working. Maybe Lemmy knows something Google doesn’t?
Also I’ve tried getting them when they’re soft, firm, green, darker, I’ve put them in the fridge, I’ve tried combinations of things and nothing that I’ve notice has worked.
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This sounds like my experience with Reid Avocados… I find Hass way superior. But I let them get so ripe sometimes there’s white flecks forming around the stem. Are colour are your avocados when you eat them? Hass avocados go very dark, almost black skinned by the time I eat them Reid Avocados tend to be very bright green, and even still only a darkish green by the time they are ready to eat
We only have Haas from what I’ve seen, I would love to try a different type. Once the haas go black they get very very soft for me and I assume they’re bad. Can I store them so the skin goes black but the inside stays safe to eat?
As long as the flesh inside is still green then they are still good to eat. Only once the insides are going brown are they going bad… and you can tell from how lame it tastes. Once they feel slightly soft I’ll usually put them in the fridge to slow the ripening down a bit. An ultra soft Hass with bright green flesh is optimal!!