Aren't bananas the most persnickety fruit?

They know. Shh!

They are the most untrustworthy of all. If I buy them green, they refuse to turn yellow. If I buy them yellow, they turn brown before I get them home. They are very sneaky.

^^ They really are! There was a meme going around that went:

12 p.m. Banana “I’m not ripe yet.”

3 p.m. “I’m not ripe.”

6 p.m. next day “I’m not ripe.”

2 a.m. whispers “I’m ripe now.”

7 a.m. “I’m rotten.”

I have never heard of the word persnickety before. Thank you, I will find a way to use this in real life.

Also, avocados are worse

Agree about the avocados, a more persnickety fruit than bananas!!

I think they collude and are partners in crime!

Not as bad as avocados. Avocados have a 90-minute window of ripeness. At 12:00pm, it’s rock hard and flavorless. At 12:01pm, it’s perfect. At 1:32pm, it’s an inedible brown mess.

I don’t find bananas as fussy. I buy bananas of varying ripeness so I always have some just approaching perfection. I also use the brown bag technique of rapidly by putting them in a bag with a ripe apple. Does seem to work pretty well. Try this for your banana cake.

And if I end up with too many ripe bananas to eat – I freeze them and make smoothies. They blend up well and have the texture of ice cream. Also, if you freeze bananas at perfect ripeness, you might be able to use them for recipes.

Pomegranate is a struggle to eat.

Bananas are in a conspiracy with avocados. Both fruits (yes, an avocado is a fruit) stay stubbornly hard and inedible, only to ripen in a heartbeat and then spoil quickly.

Well, the banana gods have cooperated and the cake will soon go in the oven. But I have to say, I could never be on The Great British Baking Show. It takes me about 6 hours from mise en place to in the oven; of course, I stop and read a few pages of my book from time to time.

It doesn’t pay for me to buy more than 3 or 4 bananas, because the window for them being perfect is very short- maybe two days total at most. Either too green or too spotty.

@jca2 I rarely buy any for that reason and because I’m not that crazy about them to eat.

I like them when they’re in the “perfect” window, which is yellow or slightly green tinged at the top, and firm. Mushy, brown spots, or too green, no thank you.

I saw the results of your banana efforts, and if it wasn’t so freaking cold, I’d rush to your house to get me some!!

I don’t like the ones that don’t let you peel them. How did they learn this trick?

@flutherother As I said, persnickety fruits!

Avocados are worse.

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