Edit: 10/23 I took a lot of advice from here, I bought an avocado yesterday and I tried it today. It was perfect! The taste was incredible. I didn’t need to salt/season it to hide anything. I am in a different state right now but when I get home I’ll buy one at home using my knowledge I now have and hopefully it’ll be perfect. Maybe I was picking out the wrong avocados & there’s nothing wrong with me. We’ll see, but I’m excited to have a good tasting avocado for the first time in a long time.
Edit: I’m reading your replies I promise. The app I’m using is bugging out and it’s not letting me reply. I’ll log in on the browser later and reply. Thank you everyone!
I love Avocado. When I go to the store I’ll pick out a green one that’s firm, and I’ll eat it once it starts to get slightly soft. The problem is more than 90% of the time they’re no good. They have a gross taste, almost like it’s spoiled. I can’t blame the store, I’ve tried Aldi, Walmart, Kroger, Trader Joe’s and they all have the weird gross taste. Maybe it’s the supplier, the type of avocado (hass i believe) or maybe it’s just me. By the way the only reason I try and try again is because our avocados are cheap. .65-85 cents and I get one a week. (Maybe my region is getting garbage avocados?)
Anytime I go to a restaurant and order anything with avocado, it’s always perfection. I would rather eat a good avocado than any desert and this is coming from someone who loves desert and doesn’t eat as many fruits or vegetables as I should.
So what should I be doing to get a good avocado from the grocery store?
I’ve tried googling and following those directions but nothings working. Maybe Lemmy knows something Google doesn’t?
Also I’ve tried getting them when they’re soft, firm, green, darker, I’ve put them in the fridge, I’ve tried combinations of things and nothing that I’ve notice has worked.
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You should ask a friend to prepare an avocado for you. Take yourself out of the equation. If you don't like it then maybe you don't like plain avocado?
I see what you’re saying but when I do get a good avocado from the store and it’s perfect I always eat them plain.
At a Mexican restaurant I’ll ask for avocado on the side 10 out of 10 times it’s amazing. I guess they might season it. But I know for sure I’ve had a plain avocado that I’ve made that I love, it’s just so rare.
My girlfriend has prepared me plain avocado and it has the success rate that I have. Most of the time it tastes terrible but sometimes it’s perfectly fine. She won’t eat avocado so I can’t figure out if it’s me and no one else I know eats them either
A little lemon or lime juice and salt can help a not-quite-perfect avocado pass for better than it is. Enjoy your perfect plain ones, but try and see if it can salvage the others for you.