I prefer them to still be a bit green, and starting to yellow.
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Love a 50/50 green yellow banana. When they have a good snap and that green taste? Yummm
Firm, slightly green still.
Yellow, fully ripe bananas, are high in fructans which for me and many others, cause digestion issues, discomfort, and that lingering taste/feeling.
Yep! I learnt that the hard way. It was like I had to burp really badly, but couldn’t. ;-;
A decent amount of green, there’s like a one or two day window where it’s possible to peel them normally without the peel snapping, but where there’s still a little bit of the underripe sourness to them
Usually the one they were yesterday.
Thoroughly freckled, nearly alcohol.
Banana schnapps!
Browned and then mashed and then made into banana bread
I personally prefer a 9 or 10, and would rather an 11 than an 8
Love this. Although, tbh the first 5 could be from the same bunch!
8-10 for me. When they’re green at all they taste weird and are too firm, but to each their own I guess.
8 to 10 is ideal. Below 5 or 6 is not ripe. Above 10 is banana bread territory.
Amazing, a banana scale!
My ideal type would be 8.5 . But I’m happy with 7 - 10.
9 ± 2, 3 if I’m hungry.
4, 5, or 6 for me please.
Wait for a 16.<BR> Take a metal straw.<BR> Punch through.<BR> Drink the goodness inside.<BR> Pro tip: If it doesn’t flow well knead it a bit.
Thanks for listening to my TED ed talk.
Good graphic. 7 or 8 for me. In the teens for banana nut bread.
9-13 looks good to me. Below is green, above looks like the insides are getting too much brown already.
Oh nice! Mine is 4 or 5. 3 or 6-9 is acceptable, 10 if I’m starving, >11 if I’m about to die; otherwise it’s being composted. *Sometimes I put ‘overripe’ bananas in the freezer to make banana bread in the future, but I stopped doing this because I don’t like kidding myself.
1-7 would be ideal banana. 8 is ok ish. 9 and 10 would have to be really pushing it. Anything beyond 10 is only useful for getting mashed up to cook banana bread or pancakes with.
lol, I was just thinking that I’d happily eat anything 9+, but 8 is still okayish.
6 - 10 anything riper goes in the freezer and becomes banana muffins later. I’m amazed anyone likes green banana.
Useful pic! 6 or 7 look perfect to me. When they start to get the stupid little stringy bits due to softness they’re no longer enjoyable for me on their own. Those go to the trash, or used in baking.
1-4 inedible 5-6 a bit starchy but good 7-10 they’re my wife’s now 11+ time for banana bread
(i’m not sure i like bananas all that much)
Do plantains count? If so may I introduce you to the illustrious jibarito
Yellow with freckles on the peel
When they start to smell sweet
I eat the whole hand of bananas within 24 hours so the need to be ripe. A green banana tastes terrible and I have no self control
still be a bit green, and starting to yellow.
Same. Bananas, avocados, and artichokes all get this weird but similar taste when they get ripe beyond the point I can enjoy them. Idk what it is exactly or even how to describe the taste, but some people seem to either not notice a difference or actively be seeking it out.
Most ready made guacamole always seems to have that same flavor. Honestly not sure if there’s even a name for it, but it almost makes me gag.
Green to sate hunger. yellow, starting to brown for sweet treat.
As with most things I have a “in the moment” preference. I’m not gonna be sad if they’re as OP described or very brown and sweet, but I’ll have a “man, I would have rather have them this way” and what way that is is different from time to time. Can have one or several hours, days, weeks or months of preferring one kind then it’ll just change. Generally like change and things to be different rather than the same all the time.
Sliced and dried in chip form.
