{"id":34494,"date":"2024-06-05T05:30:27","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T09:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=34494"},"modified":"2024-06-05T05:30:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T09:30:27","slug":"how-to-ripen-and-store-bananas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=34494","title":{"rendered":"How to Ripen and Store Bananas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seriouseats.com\/thmb\/BoGR06t5mriEw-0Uu5898JHq64E=\/1500x0\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(webp)\/20240520-SEA-BananaHowtoRipenHERO-e1e04df93b1d4df788c315ef901591ff.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" height=\"233\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">We tested multiple ways to store bananas to both speed and slow ripening. Here, we are sharing our results and explaining the science behind them, along with our recommendations for how to best store bananas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seriouseats.com\/how-to-store-and-ripen-bananas-8651168\">How to Ripen and Store Bananas<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>tl;dr: (read the whole article for more than you ever wanted to know about banana ripening.  <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.seriouseats.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Serious Eats<\/a> does deep food dives.  One of the few food blogs I follow.)<br><br><strong><em>slow ripening<\/em><\/strong> by wrapping stems in in plastic, cooler temperature (not fridge!), and separate them. <br><br><em><strong>speed up ripening<\/strong><\/em>, warmer temperature, bagging doesn&#8217;t do much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/bananas-ripening-faster-slower-serious-eats-2024-06-05_05-10-13-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/bananas-ripening-faster-slower-serious-eats-2024-06-05_05-10-13-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34498\" width=\"495\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/bananas-ripening-faster-slower-serious-eats-2024-06-05_05-10-13-2.jpg 860w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/bananas-ripening-faster-slower-serious-eats-2024-06-05_05-10-13-2-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/bananas-ripening-faster-slower-serious-eats-2024-06-05_05-10-13-2-768x630.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/bananas-ripening-faster-slower-serious-eats-2024-06-05_05-10-13-2-675x554.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>(can you believe the editors at Serious Eats ran those two thoughts into one paragraph); i spent a good 2 minutes hacking that paragraph into 2)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seriouseats.com\/thmb\/ZxLmfVIgXN75o9PuNabjXifwhSk=\/750x0\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(webp)\/20240520-SEA-BananaHowtoRipen-group-5f30658b7582438b90492432a8e698f2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"534\" height=\"401\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>See taped stems on the right; author used scotch tape, but I&#8217;m thinking plastic wrap would work. needs testing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We tested multiple ways to store bananas to both speed and slow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[349,12],"class_list":["post-34494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-bananas","tag-food","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34499,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34494\/revisions\/34499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}