h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

How do you speed up the ripening process?

I forget. Do you place them in a dark cupboard, or do you expose them to lots of sunlight.


In anycase, so when the banana goes a horrible blackish bruisy colour....that's perfect? You mash that black muck? or....?

If the banana's completely rotten, then don't eat it. But when it's black with yellow spots, as opposed to the more normal yellow with black spots, then that's a good time to make the bread.

If you want to ripen fruit, then the best way is to stick it in a plastic bag with other ripe fruit and seal the bag. This traps the ethylene gas given off as a ripening hormone and accelerates ripening. Try it and see: a good combination is banana, apple and kiwi-fruit, as the last is a bugger to ripen properly.

Cool thanks.

Unripe kiwi is a real pain.
You think you can eat it, you give it a go, you first break your knife, then your dislocate your jaw trying to chew the rock.

And it doesn't taste nice either.