How do YOU keep avocados from going brown?

Quinn_Baker
Quinn_Baker Posts: 292 Member
edited December 1 in Food and Nutrition
I never eat half an avocado in one setting- let alone a whole one.
Once it's been cut up though, it browns in a couple hours even in a ziplock.

What do you do to keep avocados for a couple days?

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  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    edited April 2016
    Keep the pit in, add a little lemon juice, seal tightly.
  • Cynsonya
    Cynsonya Posts: 668 Member
    Ready2Rock206 wrote: »
    Keep the pit in, add a little lemon juice, seal tightly.

    +1

    I still get a bit of browning but it's minimal and can easily be trimmed away without much waste.
  • CassidyScaglione
    CassidyScaglione Posts: 673 Member
    put it in a ziplock, then fold the ziplock tightly to get the air out before "zipping", it creates a little vacuum and keeps the air from turning the flesh brown.... although even if it does go a little brown, it doesn't really matter all that much I find.
  • Quinn_Baker
    Quinn_Baker Posts: 292 Member
    Thanks, guys!
  • ClubSilencio
    ClubSilencio Posts: 2,983 Member
    Only slice out the section you're going to eat (like shown). Then plastic wrap it.

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  • RodaRose
    RodaRose Posts: 9,562 Member
    Put it in water so that oxygen cannot get to it.
  • Amerane
    Amerane Posts: 136 Member
    At the sushi restaurant I worked at we'd slice large amounts of avocado and cover the tray with several layers of saran wrap. If we had half-finished trays at the end of the day we'd just re-wrap them. Never had any problems with brown avocados. I've also had luck putting sliced avocado quarters in small tupperware containers.
  • fishshark
    fishshark Posts: 1,886 Member
    RodaRose wrote: »
    Put it in water so that oxygen cannot get to it.

    yea like when i make guac i put a small layer of water of it... the water stays on dop u just drain it off.. no brown.
  • Cynsonya
    Cynsonya Posts: 668 Member
    RodaRose wrote: »
    Put it in water so that oxygen cannot get to it.

    Brilliant! I'm trying this.
  • mjwarbeck
    mjwarbeck Posts: 699 Member
    Put in a bag or container with a cut onion
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  • kiittenforever
    kiittenforever Posts: 478 Member
    Ready2Rock206 wrote: »
    Keep the pit in, add a little lemon juice, seal tightly.

    This works perfectly.

  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    I just eat the whole thing.
  • zdyb23456
    zdyb23456 Posts: 1,706 Member
    jemhh wrote: »
    I just eat the whole thing.

    Same here.
  • socioseguro
    socioseguro Posts: 1,679 Member
    I put some olive oil in the surface of the open avocado
  • WholeFoods4Lyfe
    WholeFoods4Lyfe Posts: 1,518 Member
    I just eat the whole thing.

    On the rare occasion that I don't do that, I'll leave the pit in the side I don't eat, squirt with either lime or lemon juice. Then I put into a small ziplock bag and suck all of the air out.
  • kwtilbury
    kwtilbury Posts: 1,234 Member
    Saran wrap. When you're ready to use the other half, just slice a thin layer off the surface. What's underneath should be fine.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,029 Member
    Hmm, can't say since I've never left half an avocado behind. Looking to see what others do.

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  • wonko221
    wonko221 Posts: 292 Member
    Lemon juice prevents the oxidation that browns avocados. works for apples too.

    If you cut up an avocado or make guacamole, squeeze some fresh lemon juice on there to keep it green.
  • SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage
    SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage Posts: 2,668 Member
    crazyravr wrote: »
    The only sure way is to cut the oxygen.... and that means cover with water. Even when you make guac you can still do it. The water just sits on top and can be drained very easily.

    I had no idea about this....mind blown
  • GYATagain
    GYATagain Posts: 141 Member
    Left over avocado? Not sure what that even means..... j/k. On the extreme rare occasion I've had avocado left over, lemon or lime squeezed on it and wrap tight. I've even frozen avocados like that. Scoop them out, take out pit, squeeze lemon on it and put in freezer bag. Makes great guac later.
  • cadpro78
    cadpro78 Posts: 125 Member
    edited April 2016
    I didn't read GYATagain post about freezing avocados... good advice!
  • extra_medium
    extra_medium Posts: 1,525 Member
    Lime juice
  • Cynsonya
    Cynsonya Posts: 668 Member
    Freezing them does work very, very well for guacamole. But it doesn't work so well for slicing after thawing. They become quite mushy. At least mine do.
  • antennachick
    antennachick Posts: 464 Member
    keep the pit in the half you didn't eat and wrap it up in plastic wrap and put in fridge. It works! It will slightly brown but not as bad as without the pit
  • IGbnat24
    IGbnat24 Posts: 520 Member
    I eat the whole thing at once
  • FindingAmy77
    FindingAmy77 Posts: 1,268 Member
    Ready2Rock206 wrote: »
    Keep the pit in, add a little lemon juice, seal tightly.

    this but it will still go brown so eat the next day, no later
  • angpowers
    angpowers Posts: 83 Member
    IGbnat24 wrote: »
    I eat the whole thing at once

    ^^^^
    Me too hahaha

    And I find that putting it in water makes it ... Well ... Watery and slimy and just plain gross. Coming from a huge avocado eater, I wouldn't recommend this.

    Leaving the pit in is key and putting it in a ziplock like so many have said helps ... When you suck all the air out.

    Good luck! But I say eat 1/2 or the whole at a time hahaha
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