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 ...

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 ...