These Vegetables Will Still Ripen After You Pick Them
This time of year, gardeners have to make hard choices. Rain and overnight chills present risks to your vegetables on the plant, but you also want to be sure you’re…
Four Ways to Preserve All Your Tomatoes at the Same Time
In the most ideal world, you would process all your tomatoes in one weekend. Save the miserable task of heating up the kitchen, burning your fingers and being endlessly on…
The Best Ways to Freeze Any Kind of Fresh Fruit
There’s little better than ripe fresh fruit eaten out of hand, but when you have too much to eat before it goes bad, do the next best thing: freeze your…
Just Buy Two Bunches of Bananas
Photo: hurricanehank (Shutterstock) Everybody has a favorite stage of banana ripeness. Do you prefer them still slightly tinged green? Uniformly yellow? Lightly freckled? Soft and beginning to show brown stripes…
So, You Cut Into an Unripe Avocado
Photo: Elena Pavlovich (Shutterstock) It’s 7 a.m., and you’re feeling smug about waking up in time to make breakfast. Your dish of choice? Avocado toast. But then, disaster. You slice…
This Is the Only ‘Fast’ Way to Ripen an Avocado
Photo: Brent Hofacker (Shutterstock) Avocados have a fan club that hates to love them. They taste great, can be sliced, mashed, or blended, and can be used to make everything…
The Smartest Way to Keep Avocados Fresh for Up to a Month
Photo: Stephanie Lena Lee (Shutterstock) Buying avocados is always a bit of a crapshoot: They tend to ripen at unpredictable intervals, with that fleeting moment of ripeness coming and going…
Have You Been Eating Bananas Wrong This Whole Time?
Photo: Billion Photos (Shutterstock) Welcome to our Master Class on banana consumption, where we will discuss the right way to peel a banana. If you’re thinking, “There is no right…
Why You Should Keep Your Fresh Flowers Away From Your Fruit Bowl
Photo: ESstock (Shutterstock) Part of what makes a bouquet of fresh-cut flowers so special is knowing that they won’t be around forever, so you should cherish them in the moment,…
Store Your Pineapples Upside Down, and Other Surprising Ways to Keep Your Fruit From Spoiling
Photo: Maria Medvedeva (Shutterstock) Though it’d be nice, there’s no one-size-fits-all storage methodology to maximize the freshness of different fruits. Some need to be cloaked in a cocoon of temperate…