Guacamole lovers around the globe are all too familiar with the panic and desperation that descends when realizing that their avocados won’t magically ripen in the hour left before taco night. But you ...

A hand holds half an avocado while a spoon is scooping out the flesh. - Caterina Oltean / 500px/Getty Images We've all been there — dreaming about avocado toast while holding a stubbornly unripe ...

A pile of bright green unripe avocados with purple stickers. - Oscar Wong/Getty Images Avocados are a finicky fruit. You pick out the perfect one at the grocery store, and by the time you get home, it ...

Placing unripe avocados in a paper bag with fruit that gives off ethylene gas ripens them the fastest. Using a ripe banana edged out an apple by two days, but either method works. Heating avocados ...

Yearning for that perfect ripe avocado to top off your toast or toss in a salad? It's a drag when you're stuck waiting for nature to take its course-but don't fret, there's a neat trick to speed ...

A certain sense of joy comes with cutting into a perfectly ripe avocado. You twist it open, feast your eyes on that smooth, beautiful green flesh, and simply have to show someone — either in person or ...