W hat's the secret to perfect guacamole and the best avocado toast? The answer is easy: ripe avocados! The only problem is ...

There's one other way to tell if the fruit inside is ripe: the stem. If you cannot easily remove the stem nub, the avocado is not ripe yet. If you can easily remove or "flick off" the nub at the top, ...

An avocado doesn’t start to ripen until picked from the tree, but the process happens rather quickly afterward. Once ripe, you have a narrow window of time, generally a few days, before the ...