Trouble with bananas.

[PliotronX]

Use some peanut butter & jelly.........

 

[FeathersMcGraw]

Originally posted by: ethicalsangel
Banana Fact: Due to the fact that Banana's are a tropical fruit, they are not able to withstand cool tempuratures. They will quickly turn brown and ripen when chilled. Kind of the same effect as if it were turning fall and the leaves started to turn on the trees.

My experience differs from the above. It's true that if you refrigerate bananas, they will turn brown within the span of a day, but I find that the refrigeration retards ripening rather than accelerating it. The fruit will remain firm longer refrigerated than without, and I can usually keep bananas that are pale yellow when I buy them for a couple of weeks.

 

[ragazzo]

buy only as much as you can eat. for example, if you eat a banana a day, just buy 7. you can always go shopping again later. i wouldn't recommend buying more than 7.

 

[Nemesis77]

The solution is to beam the bananas aboard the Klingon spacecraft as you are leaving the space-station.... Oh sorry, that was Star Trek

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

IDEA #1: peel your banana when they ripen, freeze or store in fridge saran wrapped.

IDEA #2: bananas turn black b/c they release a gas that reacts with the skin. Store your bananas in a well ventilated area, cool and dry.

IDEA #3: eat your bananas within the first half of the week

 

[MomAndSkoorbaby]

Hi!

Don't put your bananas next to any other fruit of veggie. Let them stand, not in a bag, at room temperature. Only buy a small bundle!

 

[ATLien247]

Originally posted by: FeathersMcGraw

Originally posted by: ethicalsangel
Banana Fact: Due to the fact that Banana's are a tropical fruit, they are not able to withstand cool tempuratures. They will quickly turn brown and ripen when chilled. Kind of the same effect as if it were turning fall and the leaves started to turn on the trees.

My experience differs from the above. It's true that if you refrigerate bananas, they will turn brown within the span of a day, but I find that the refrigeration retards ripening rather than accelerating it. The fruit will remain firm longer refrigerated than without, and I can usually keep bananas that are pale yellow when I buy them for a couple of weeks.

I agree. If you put the bananas in the fridge, they will keep longer. It doesn't matter that the skin has turned brown, because you're not supposed to eat it (unless you're from K-Pax).

 

[0ops]

Get a monkey

 

[StattlichPassat]

Originally posted by: Harvey
ethicalsangel -- Putting fruit in any bag traps the ethyene gas given off by the fruit which will make it ripen sooner.

Explains why my Mom always keeps avacados in brown bags on the counter...

 

[IcemanJer]

make a sundae if they become too ripe.

 

[Bluefront]

What do you know, conflicting info about bananas. Who would have ever thought.....

My problem is I need ripe, yellow bananas available every day of the week, with only one trip to the food store per week. Is this possible? I'm going to try the refrigerator thing next. My two parrots love bananas, but won't touch them if they're over-ripe. They eat one banana every day between them.

I absolutely would hate to make special trips to the store for a few bananas......

 

[Bobomatic]

That reminds me of when my dad bought some slightly green bananas and they stayed like that for a couple of weeks. My sister ate one and she got sick because of it. When they finally ripened they turned brown super fast, like in a day, and we hat too dump all of them. pretty weird.

 

[bonk102]

when i store them in the fridge they dont age as fast, dont know why yours are

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

The Straight Dope


If you assume that Cecil Adams has provided accurate information, you can see that you might try SEPERATING your bananas, storing them at room temperature in a well ventilated area.

 

[ATLien247]

Originally posted by: yamahaXS
The Straight Dope


If you assume that Cecil Adams has provided accurate information, you can see that you might try SEPERATING your bananas, storing them at room temperature in a well ventilated area.

In other words, FeathersMcGraw and I are right...

 

[Bluefront]

Well there do seem be many experts with conflicting advice. It seems to me that the age of the banana (how ripe it is), has something to do with how well it takes to being rerfridgerated. Maybe the brand of the banana also....and perhaps whether or not it was refridgerated before during shipment. I just tried two in the fridge for two days....these didn't turn brown at all. More research is needed.

 

[Geekbabe]

Originally posted by: Bluefront
Well there do seem be many experts with conflicting advice. It seems to me that the age of the banana (how ripe it is), has something to do with how well it takes to being rerfridgerated. Maybe the brand of the banana also....and perhaps whether or not it was refridgerated before during shipment. I just tried two in the fridge for two days....these didn't turn brown at all. More research is needed.

LOL,Does this mean we're going to be treated to a daily tech update on the status of your banana ?

Man,getting up this early in the morning does strange things to a person

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

can you post PICS of your parrots snubbing an inadequate banana???

 

[Beau]

I like bananas. Get a banana rack, they last longer when they are hung as they would be from a tree.

 

[Bluefront]

"LOL,Does this mean we're going to be treated to a daily tech update on the status of your banana ?"

Leave it to Baffled2 to bring sex into a discussion about a certain fruit called banana...heh. I wondered who would start it first......

As far as parrots and bananas go......smart birds don't eat fruit till it's ripe. Picky birds like mine, reject all fruits that are over-ripe. Now if they were really hungry, maybe it would be different. Try to feed my parrots a black banana means a chomped finger.

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

When i was a younger worked a little construction job... my buddy and I would go get lunch sometimes and one day he said he was going to eat bananas for lunch...

well, he ate, i don't know, 12 - 13 bananas.. it was really pretty funny to watch.


Later that day, he got a stomache ache. hahah on him... i just laughed at his dumb ass. THEN he asked me if I thought that maybe he was sick because one of the bananas had gone 'bad'.

 

[KMurphy]

Put them under a nitrogen blanket. This will delay the appearance of brown spots.

 

[chipburner]

Put them under a nitrogen blanket. This will delay the appearance of brown spots.

ROTFL...
I'm living in the Caribbean.Have some banana trees in the back yard.I'll send some are still green via UPS, so they will be ready to eat when they delivered to you...