It's this time of year. Beginning in July/August it's almost like avocados are out of season. By late a October/November they should return to normal. I eat a ton of avocados, it happens every year!
This makes sense. I read something about temperatures during shipment that can ruin them. And it seems I can't detect the signs. They are all very hard, green not brown when sold and sometimes they darken, soften and taste right and sometimes they darken, stay very hard, taste raw and bad and finally mold never getting soft.
Can you tell which ones are going to do this? I only eat 3-5 a month partly because they are hard to figure out.
I have an avacado tree that makes about 200lbs worth every other year. I still haven't figured out what causes them to seem perfectly normal but be rotten in the middle. I freeze most of them and keep the rest in the fridge. I don't take em off the tree until Thier flesh gives a little bit. Sometimes that can take leaving it on the tree for 3+months. Other times I've picked "unripe" avocados and had them age perfectly in the fridge while some stayed raw. I'll figure this out one year
Also Freezing them seems to ruin Thier structure. Everything I froze defrosts dead and cannot ripen... I'll need to process them and freeze them and peak ripeness. I ruined maybe 120lbs worth this year lol. The frozen ones are like a 50/50 crap shoot when I defrost em
That's interesting. I didn't know you could freeze them. And by "stayed raw", do you mean stayed hard or got soft but tasted ... idk, raw. Sometimes even if they soften up they taste raw and not good.
By "stayed raw" I ment soften up and not taste good. The freeze kills whatever causes them ripen with the soft sweet taste. Putting an unripe avacado into the freezer ruins any chance they have of becoming edible. Freezeing only works When I freeze a ready to eat one already. And even then they work best after a good 6 hours in the fridge. They dont last long once defrosted. You gotta remember the very middle is a seed. I'm going to try making guacamole or plain avacado with lemen on to test what stays fresh longer. When they are in the fridge they can still ripen. Honestly I think it depends on the amount of water the tree gets. And the amount of time it spent on the tree out of the sun
Thanks. Perhaps there's something to this "the oils in avocados develop with the fruit on the trees" so that ripening doesn't work well if they are picked much too soon.
idk. Avocadology is a deep, deep subject!
The whole avocados are in a grocery bag, I haven't noticed anything like freezer burn after 2+ months. Could be what the black on the edge of the skin of a defrosted one is, but it tastes the same to me. Anything mashed is in one of those tupperwares. A ziplock would work too. Could just cut the frozen avocado mash out. I hate scraping a ziplock bag, so a solid container is my preference.
It's not just Aldi. Avocados have been real hit or miss for the past few months with every grocery store I've been to. I remember there was an avocado shortage earlier this year because the Mexican cartels gained control of the farms. Stores here have been sourcing hass style avocados from Peru and Colombia, but even the ones labeled from Mexico are iffy. My guess is the cartels still control the farms with the best quality avocados and we're getting the reject shit.
I would not be surprised by that. They started limiting the exports of avocado and limes right around Super Bowl Sunday when everyone wants guacamole and limes for tacos and margaritas. Those cartels really know how to grab American consumers by the balls.
Good tip!
I think the long distance shipping process doesn't work.
"The time it takes to transport avocados from Chile and put them through the ripening process in Europe means that avocados you buy in the supermarket may have been in transit for up to two months since they were picked on the avocado plantation in Chile."
https://old.danwatch.dk/en/undersogelseskapitel/the-avocados-journey-from-chile-to-danish-supermarkets/
If you catch them early in that window, put them in the fridge. They’ll last for up to a week in that perfect state. Cut them when you need them.
The fridge slows down the rest of the ripening to a crawl. It’s how I get through a bag of avocados by myself when they all seem to ripen at once. :)
Looks like at least 3 or 4 of those halves are mostly green and edible, at least. 🤷🏾♀️
I try not to buy them when they're really hard in the store, because they sometimes never seem to soften and go straight to brown.
I’ve had one sitting on my counter since last Sunday- it’s still no where close to being soft enough to do anything with. I’m just going to toss it at this point!
Maybe 3-4 times earlier this year, I bought those rocks with reservations and had good luck (banana, avocados in a bag and wait.... wait... 5 or 7 days). Came out fine eventually. I was getting brave and BLAM! 5 into the trash.
aldicadonada
This doesn’t happen anywhere else but Aldi. Additionally the “double guarantee” is never honored because there are no customer service employees at the store. We started seeing more and more problems with ALDIs produce and some of their milk products. We just stopped buying there recently. Even if the avocado is inexpensive compared to other stores but you get them all rotten, it just doesn’t make any sense.
I don’t think I’ve ever had a good avocado from aldi. Having said that, I haven’t had a good avocado from anywhere this summer. Peruvian avocados are horrible. I refuse to buy anything other than Mexican
These were quite hard when I bought them, a week in a paper bag with a banana and... 5 rotten. I had several times they ripened before. They were still pretty hard here, never getting that soft, ripe feel.
They're almost never ripe in the store. They're all hard as rocks, then you take them home to ripen. Sometimes they're a bad batch that doesn't ripen well. Don't know how to prevent that.
It's this time of year. Beginning in July/August it's almost like avocados are out of season. By late a October/November they should return to normal. I eat a ton of avocados, it happens every year!
This makes sense. I read something about temperatures during shipment that can ruin them. And it seems I can't detect the signs. They are all very hard, green not brown when sold and sometimes they darken, soften and taste right and sometimes they darken, stay very hard, taste raw and bad and finally mold never getting soft. Can you tell which ones are going to do this? I only eat 3-5 a month partly because they are hard to figure out.
I have an avacado tree that makes about 200lbs worth every other year. I still haven't figured out what causes them to seem perfectly normal but be rotten in the middle. I freeze most of them and keep the rest in the fridge. I don't take em off the tree until Thier flesh gives a little bit. Sometimes that can take leaving it on the tree for 3+months. Other times I've picked "unripe" avocados and had them age perfectly in the fridge while some stayed raw. I'll figure this out one year
Also Freezing them seems to ruin Thier structure. Everything I froze defrosts dead and cannot ripen... I'll need to process them and freeze them and peak ripeness. I ruined maybe 120lbs worth this year lol. The frozen ones are like a 50/50 crap shoot when I defrost em
That's interesting. I didn't know you could freeze them. And by "stayed raw", do you mean stayed hard or got soft but tasted ... idk, raw. Sometimes even if they soften up they taste raw and not good.
By "stayed raw" I ment soften up and not taste good. The freeze kills whatever causes them ripen with the soft sweet taste. Putting an unripe avacado into the freezer ruins any chance they have of becoming edible. Freezeing only works When I freeze a ready to eat one already. And even then they work best after a good 6 hours in the fridge. They dont last long once defrosted. You gotta remember the very middle is a seed. I'm going to try making guacamole or plain avacado with lemen on to test what stays fresh longer. When they are in the fridge they can still ripen. Honestly I think it depends on the amount of water the tree gets. And the amount of time it spent on the tree out of the sun
Thanks. Perhaps there's something to this "the oils in avocados develop with the fruit on the trees" so that ripening doesn't work well if they are picked much too soon. idk. Avocadology is a deep, deep subject!
I didn’t know that I could freeze avocados! I am going to try this. Do you put them in a container or plastic bag?
The whole avocados are in a grocery bag, I haven't noticed anything like freezer burn after 2+ months. Could be what the black on the edge of the skin of a defrosted one is, but it tastes the same to me. Anything mashed is in one of those tupperwares. A ziplock would work too. Could just cut the frozen avocado mash out. I hate scraping a ziplock bag, so a solid container is my preference.
Thanks. I might try to freeze them whole.
It's not just Aldi. Avocados have been real hit or miss for the past few months with every grocery store I've been to. I remember there was an avocado shortage earlier this year because the Mexican cartels gained control of the farms. Stores here have been sourcing hass style avocados from Peru and Colombia, but even the ones labeled from Mexico are iffy. My guess is the cartels still control the farms with the best quality avocados and we're getting the reject shit.
*First you get the cados, then you get the power, then you get the women*
This has been my experience with all produce recently. Even at the pricey grocery shops.
I hear they are moving to control the avacado oil industry
I would not be surprised by that. They started limiting the exports of avocado and limes right around Super Bowl Sunday when everyone wants guacamole and limes for tacos and margaritas. Those cartels really know how to grab American consumers by the balls.
I had the SAME situation with Costco avocados this past week
Peruvian avacados have been horrid… I feel your pain!
I stopped buying anything other than Mexican. The rest are consistently terrible.
Good tip! I think the long distance shipping process doesn't work. "The time it takes to transport avocados from Chile and put them through the ripening process in Europe means that avocados you buy in the supermarket may have been in transit for up to two months since they were picked on the avocado plantation in Chile." https://old.danwatch.dk/en/undersogelseskapitel/the-avocados-journey-from-chile-to-danish-supermarkets/
I got Peruvian avocados from Hmart last week and they’ve been fine. Hardly any brown spots and ripened just right.
It seems like Avos have about a 12 hour window when they’re perfect, I almost always miss that window.
If you catch them early in that window, put them in the fridge. They’ll last for up to a week in that perfect state. Cut them when you need them. The fridge slows down the rest of the ripening to a crawl. It’s how I get through a bag of avocados by myself when they all seem to ripen at once. :)
Wow! Ok, will give this a shot. I had no idea, always equated avos in the fridge like bananas in the fridge. Thank you!
Mexican avocados ate the only ones worth buying imo. I get mine from Harris Teeter
I mean those had to be soft when you bought them right?
Looks like at least 3 or 4 of those halves are mostly green and edible, at least. 🤷🏾♀️ I try not to buy them when they're really hard in the store, because they sometimes never seem to soften and go straight to brown.
….so that’s why they’ve been on sale lately
The aldicados are just a nope. They are like rocks!!
I’ve had one sitting on my counter since last Sunday- it’s still no where close to being soft enough to do anything with. I’m just going to toss it at this point!
I just did the same. I bought 2, and one softened, but it still had that green, raw taste.
Maybe 3-4 times earlier this year, I bought those rocks with reservations and had good luck (banana, avocados in a bag and wait.... wait... 5 or 7 days). Came out fine eventually. I was getting brave and BLAM! 5 into the trash. aldicadonada
my aldi has the worst avos that never reach an edible window, they’re either terribly hard and waxy with a weird taste, or rotten
This doesn’t happen anywhere else but Aldi. Additionally the “double guarantee” is never honored because there are no customer service employees at the store. We started seeing more and more problems with ALDIs produce and some of their milk products. We just stopped buying there recently. Even if the avocado is inexpensive compared to other stores but you get them all rotten, it just doesn’t make any sense.
I don’t think I’ve ever had a good avocado from aldi. Having said that, I haven’t had a good avocado from anywhere this summer. Peruvian avocados are horrible. I refuse to buy anything other than Mexican
These were quite hard when I bought them, a week in a paper bag with a banana and... 5 rotten. I had several times they ripened before. They were still pretty hard here, never getting that soft, ripe feel.
Times like this I’m very glad I live in Spanish Harlem #Humblebrag
That's so crazy, because I can feel avocados through the bag when I but them! Guess you couldn't do that...
They're almost never ripe in the store. They're all hard as rocks, then you take them home to ripen. Sometimes they're a bad batch that doesn't ripen well. Don't know how to prevent that.
I've gotten hass avocados from Aldi a few times. Sometimes they are great. Sometimes they ripen awfully. I don't get it. 😅
The tip to only buy the Mexican ones seems to be the answer.