As you can see by this helpful infographic, you should be looking for a green-brown or dark brown skin tone if you want a ready to eat Avocado.
On the other hand, a bright green Avocado is not ripe. An olive-green skin indicates it is 2-3 days away from ripening. This is handy if you don’t need to use it immediately. You can actually pop it in your fruit bowl and allow it to ripen naturally.
While we’re on the subject of ripening avocado’s, did you know that you can speed up the process? There are certain times of the year when the only avo’s on offer are rock hard. Now you can learn a clever trick that will allow you to have soft, useable avocado’s one full day later.
We found a number of ideas being shared including popping them in foil in the oven and even in the microwave. All this does is heat your avocado up and soften it. This does not actually ripen it. We have found a technique that uses flour that gets great results.