Bananas are a staple in most people’s daily fruit intake. The only problem though, is that most markets have bunches of the fruit that is still young in its ripening process, making them unfit for snacking as you buy them. Or sometimes, you need overripe bananas to make banana bread and are faced with a waiting time of a few days, or – if they’re a new bunch – even a week, by which time you might lose interest in the prospect of baking the bread. What if you could speed up the process, based on the time you had on hand? Here’s a list of our quick fix ideas for speeding up the ripening process, based on the time you want to wait:
Once bananas are ripe to the degree you want them, it is important refrigerate them. This will ensure that the ones you don’t use stay as ripe as you require them to be till you get around to using them.