How to ripen bananas faster [SOLVED]

I have green bananas I purchased yesterday for 79 cents a pound. 

They are green. 

Tell me how to make them yellow more faster so I can eat them today or earlier tomorrow 

Please and thank you 

julibee


I do know that if you have a bowl full of green bananas, plus one overly ripe banana, the green ones will be ready in a day then you'll have a house full of gnats.

fixed.

rsp@odyssey.net


A prolonged staring session will do the trick. It's critical that your eyes never leave the bananas. No bathroom breaks, no tv, pc, nothing. You must stare at them for 22 1/2 hours straight. Then they will be ready.

Randy

{shudders at the memory}
That's what Mooch did to me for the two full days of my visit last year. It was creepy and not in a bromance sort of way either.

I've heard something about the brown bag method mentioned in #4 that will ripen them up quickly since it captures the gas they give off as they ripen and holds it in. 

We used to let them lay on the counter and they seemed to get ripe pretty fast that way too. So much so that we sometimes had to throw the last ones out since they would ripen too fast.

My wife heard about hanging them from a stand. It was claimed the bananas would not ripen so fast since the gas they emit as they ripen would fall away and not cause the typical "snowball effect" on the others. 

We've been hanging the fruit now for about 3 months and it does seem to prolong the usable life of the fruit on our counter by quite a few days. Previously we used to by them in bunches of 3 or 4, but now it's not a problem to get 5 to 8 in a bunch.

Well as of this morning they are still green. However, I havnt tried any of the methods suggested yet becuase I was busy ..... But I hope they ripen soon cause I want to eat a banana. I  have a fever and the only prescription for it is more bananas 

daryl1968


Bananas are the king of fruit

What??!
 
If that were true, then why do pineapples have a crown?
 

 
Bananas look more like a ...  Nevermind.

Banana's don't do well at all in refrigerators.

craigb

daryl1968


Bananas are the king of fruit

What??!
 
If that were true, then why do pineapples have a crown?
 

 
Bananas look more like a ...  Nevermind.

I will fight you to the death on this one

Have you tried Viagra? ... and maybe this is something you should be discussing with the future Mrs. Mooch and not the CH.

Karyn

quantumeffect


Have you tried Viagra? ....

No no,  he wants it SOFT.

I just want it yellow 

Ha!
 

The bananas are ripe now. However 2 of the 7 bananas are over ripe and I never got to eat them. They are in the garbage now. 

"I've tried punching them. I've tried yelling at them. Nothing seems to work!"