How to Pick a Sweet and Creamy Avocado... The Old AMISH Way
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You stand there in the produce aisle holding an avocado, pressing it with your thumb like you have seen other folks do, and the plain truth is you have no idea what you are feeling for. So you buy it on hope. And half the time you cut it open at home to find it either hard as a stone and days from ready, or brown and stringy and already past saving. A dollar and a half, straight in the bin.
It does not have to be a guess. The avocado tells you everything you need to know before you ever cut it, if you know the five things to look for. My grandmother could read a fruit with her hands in a way most folks have forgotten, and today I will show you exactly how, so you bring home a perfect, buttery avocado every single time.
Here is what I walk you through in this one:
✓ The gentle give test, and how to feel for ripe without bruising the fruit to mush
✓ The stem-cap secret, the little button on top that tells you green for ripe or brown for gone-by before you ever buy
✓ What the color is really telling you, and the sunken soft dents that mean trouble inside
✓ The weight test, why the heavier avocado in your hand is the better one
✓ The skin that springs back, the difference between ripe and rotten under your thumb
✓ How to pick one ripe for tonight and one for three days out, so you are never caught short or wasteful
✓ The plain truth about who profits when you guess wrong and toss good money in the bin
None of this takes more than a moment at the shelf. It is not a trick and it is not luck. It is the old way of reading a fruit with your eyes and your hands, the way people did before a sticker on the skin told them what to think.
Tell me in the comments below, how do you check an avocado now, and how often do you cut one open to find it ruined inside. And tell me your county, because I like to know where folks are shopping and what the produce is like where you are. I read every one.
Next time, I will show you how to pick sweet and juicy strawberries, five things to look for, because the store fools you on a berry in ways that would surprise you.
The kitchen that wastes nothing is the kitchen that knows how to choose. The people who built this country with their hands knew that, and we are only just starting to remember it.
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Meanwhile, I’ll continue to use the trick of keeping my avocados immersed in water. Seems to keep the flesh from going grey.
I usually gently push the nub or stem cap and see if it recedes inward. If so, I assume the avocado is ripe. That ‘trick’ is not fail-proof. Now I have your tips to help me choose yummy avocados with more accuracy! And save money and disappointment from buying funky ‘cados.
How to Pick a Sweet and Creamy Avocado... The Old AMISH Way
Amish Gardening
20,448 views
🔗 Save $6,000 A Year with My Complete Amish Home-Saving Method I teach: https://eliasyoder.com
You stand there in the produce aisle holding an avocado, pressing it with your thumb like you have seen other folks do, and the plain truth is you have no idea what you are feeling for. So you buy it on hope. And half the time you cut it open at home to find it either hard as a stone and days from ready, or brown and stringy and already past saving. A dollar and a half, straight in the bin.
It does not have to be a guess. The avocado tells you everything you need to know before you ever cut it, if you know the five things to look for. My grandmother could read a fruit with her hands in a way most folks have forgotten, and today I will show you exactly how, so you bring home a perfect, buttery avocado every single time.
Here is what I walk you through in this one:
✓ The gentle give test, and how to feel for ripe without bruising the fruit to mush
✓ The stem-cap secret, the little button on top that tells you green for ripe or brown for gone-by before you ever buy
✓ What the color is really telling you, and the sunken soft dents that mean trouble inside
✓ The weight test, why the heavier avocado in your hand is the better one
✓ The skin that springs back, the difference between ripe and rotten under your thumb
✓ How to pick one ripe for tonight and one for three days out, so you are never caught short or wasteful
✓ The plain truth about who profits when you guess wrong and toss good money in the bin
None of this takes more than a moment at the shelf. It is not a trick and it is not luck. It is the old way of reading a fruit with your eyes and your hands, the way people did before a sticker on the skin told them what to think.
Tell me in the comments below, how do you check an avocado now, and how often do you cut one open to find it ruined inside. And tell me your county, because I like to know where folks are shopping and what the produce is like where you are. I read every one.
Next time, I will show you how to pick sweet and juicy strawberries, five things to look for, because the store fools you on a berry in ways that would surprise you.
The kitchen that wastes nothing is the kitchen that knows how to choose. The people who built this country with their hands knew that, and we are only just starting to remember it.
#avocado #howtopickanavocado #ripeavocado #avocadotips #producetips #grocerytips #amish #eliasyoder #oldways #kitchenwisdom #healthyeating #avocadotoast #guacamole #grocerySaving #pennsylvaniadutch #producemarket #foodwaste #homestead