Do you never buy avocados when you’re home alone because you can’t keep them once you’ve started them? So try opening them like this…
When you are single (or, by force of circumstances, you have to spend several days alone with yourself), you start to give up certain products at the supermarket for fear of spoiling them. Like this anti-waste family size bag of lamb’s lettuce displayed at 50% off that we’ll never finish on time anyway, or these eggs sold by the dozen which nevertheless cost less than six. The same problem arises with lawyers. Because we usually only eat half of it, and the other half ends up turning black in a few hours…
However, there are a thousand and one grandmother’s tips that claim to preserve its pretty green color until the next day. All have in common that they limit contact with air and slow down their oxidation. Some suggest sprinkling the flesh with lemon juice, others brushing it with oil, wrapping it in film on contact or even leaving the core in the half to preserve. But all these techniques, in practice, often show only partial effectiveness. Which almost every time forces us to crush the leftovers to reduce them into an awful khaki guacamole…
So should we say goodbye to shiny avocado toast just because we’re brunching alone? Not at all. You just need to know @mon_cook_book’s foodhack. With its very simple method, it guarantees that you will keep your opened avocado intact for several days. And there is no need to apply some magical ingredient to the flesh, since everything depends on how you open the fruit!
Instead of splitting it in two, as we all instinctively do, he slices off its pointy end and removes only the amount of flesh he needs with a butter knife. In this way, it only exposes a very small part of the flesh to oxygen, which therefore darkens little (if at all). To optimize its conservation, it is then stored upside down in a glass of water.
A tip not the most suitable when you want to cut into strips in a mixed salad, certainly, but very practical for dressing your toasted toast! At least, if you fail to find your other half, your lawyer will no longer lose his…
