If you, like us, find yourself Google-searching “how to ripen an avocado RIGHT THIS VERY INSTANT” on a regular basis, we’re here to help.

In an ideal world, we’d plan appropriately for an avocado-heavy salad or a Buddha bowl with perfectly creamy avo slices on top. We’d pick up some green, rock-hard underripe avocados at the store about a week out, then let them hang out on the counter and take their sweet time getting ripe. But that isn’t how life works we can rarely predict when a guacamole craving is going to hit, and, even if we can make it to the store, the odds that there’s a just-soft-enough-but-not-mushy fruit waiting for us are slim.

There are a ton of potential solutions out there, like baking your avocado in the oven, to make it ripe in a matter of minutes sounds too good to be true, right? Well, it probably is.

We tested the four most legit-sounding tricks to speed up the ripening process, and found what works the best. Thanks, science.

METHOD #1: ON THE COUNTER

This is probably the most likely place to store an avocado in order to ripen it, since the cold air in your fridge definitely delays ripening. But if you’re trying to ripen an avo on the counter, you’ll be waiting awhile.

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