How Should I ripen green bananas?

Question

How Should I ripen green bananas?

Answer 1

I'm not sure how well it works, but I know my mom puts them in a paper bag to help ripen them. A lot of people tend to put them on a window sill, too.

Answer 2

There are many ways to ripen a banana. The hardest one is to wait for it. Another one: The low temperature in a refrigerator will harm bananas because they are

tropical. The skin will turn black due to chilling injury.

Bananas on the counter might be expected to ripen slower than those in a box

because bananas give off the ripening hormone, ethylene. Ethylene is a gas so

the box might hold in the ethylene better and promote faster ripening. If you

place bananas in a plastic bag with a ripe apple, which gives off a lot of

ethylene, they may ripen even faster than under your conditions.

Hope I helped :)

Answer 3

For some reason it is only brown paper bags that work.  Remember not to store bananas with other fruits, they give off a chemical that makes other fruit rot quicker than normally.

Answer 4

You're best keeping them somewhere dark and warm.

This will ripen them quick and properly.

Hope this helps

Answer 5

Many fruits are picked prior to full ripening because ripened fruits do not ship well. For example, bananas are picked when green and artificially ripened after shipment by being gassed with ethylene.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_ripen...

Ethylene is a gaseous plant hormone that is given off by ripening fruit and which also causes the fruit to ripen.  To hasten the ripening of bananas, put them in a paper bag with the top folded over to prevent air circulating.  Put the bag in a dark place, like a cupboard.

Putting the fruit in a paper bag prevents the ethylene from wafting away so the concentration of ethylene increases in the bag.  Use a paper bag so that moisture does not accumulate.  To hasten the ripening even more, put some ripe fruit in the bag with the bananas.  The riper the fruit, the more ethylene it gives off.  You put the bag in a dark place because light decreases the ethylene production.

Answer 6

Put them in a paper bag and tightly roll closed the top of the bag--it truly does work. Check the bananas after 1-2 days, though. I left green bananas in a bag for 3 days and they were black when I opened it.

Answer 7

With patience..they'll get there in the end brown paper bag or not

Answer 8

Put them in a fruit bowl with a citrus fruit lke oranges OR apples and they will give off a gas which will ripen them quicker

Answer 9

put them in on of you kitchen cabinets, and don'n put any plastic bag over them it will make em sweat.

Answer 10

Put them in a paper bag for a day.

Answer 11

Just leave them out on a kitchen bench in a fruit bowl or something and they will ripen in a day or so.

Answer 12

but them in a dark place for a day! like in your kitchen cabinet or in a paper bag.

Answer 13

If you put them in a bag with an apple the acetylene given off by the apple will ripen them fast. You have to do it outside of the fridge.  

Answer 14

I have been buying bananas for 45 years and I normally buy a few ripe ones and a few green ones. The green ones ripen with no special attention. They sit in the fruit bowl and within a couple of days they are nicely ripe. The temperature is slightly influential. Brown paper bags? who needs them!!