How to ripen bananas in 15 minutes
For banana bread, -pancakes or -cake, it’s best to use ripe bananas, but at the supermarket it seems like they only sell bright green ones. Here’s how to get your bananas ready for baking in fifteen minutes.
For baking, your bananas need to be considerably riper than if you were simply eating them out of hand. What’s the quickest way to do that? Put the bananas, peel and all, in the oven at 120 ºC. Wait fifteen minutes and your bananas are ready to use in your bake.
Hot and cold
Have a little more time? The opposite of the oven works too: put them in the freezer. It does take a little longer; this way, you’ll have ripe bananas after a few hours. This is a handy trick if you have bananas left over or if they’re already just past the point at which you want to eat them. Simply put them in the freezer and wait for a drizzly day when you feel like baking. Problem solved!
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