topic Re: Avocados in Kitchen

Avocados

Kachina624 — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 02:43:36 GMT

In case you haven't noticed, avocados by the pound have disappeared from stores. Truckers in Mexico, where most come from, are so endangered by drug cartel thugs that shipments have ceased. I bough a bunch of small ones at Wal-Mart for 59¢ each last week-end; now they have none. Since they don't last long, I was thrilled to run across this helpful hint on Facebook. Has anybody tried this?

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Kachina624 — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 02:44:31 GMT

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PhilaLady1 — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 02:50:04 GMT

@Kachina624

I never froze avocados, don't see why not. It should be OK to do so. I heard on the news this evening that they "found a way" to protect the truckers and that avocados have resumed shipping.

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Kachina624 — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 02:57:56 GMT

@PhilaLady1 Good! I've really enjoyed these small ones the past year or so, in lieu of a salad with my dinner often. Maybe our avocados will be escorted by armed guards. This was sure to hurt their economy. They haven't arrived yet at my store.

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MG Chris — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 03:11:33 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
@PhilaLady1 Good! I've really enjoyed these small ones the past year or so, in lieu of a salad with my dinner often. Maybe our avocados will be escorted by armed guards. This was sure to hurt their economy. They haven't arrived yet at my store.

They lifted the ban yesterday so they should be coming back soon. I read we only had a two weeks supply in the pipeline. I bought a ton of avocados this week in preparation for the ban. I picked the greenest and hardest ones I could find to make them last longer.

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JeanLouiseFinch — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 03:27:19 GMT

I've had some bad luck with avocados lately. I've learn of this way if storage as well as wrapping them unpeeled in aluminum foil and stored in the fridge. But today I learned a new one, keeping them submerged in a large container of water, in the fridge. The second photo is supposedly after two weeks. 🤷‍♀️

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MG Chris — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 03:13:10 GMT

@JeanLouiseFinch wrote:
I've had some bad luck with avocados lately. I've learn of this way if storage as well as wrapping them unpeeled in aluminum foil. But today I learned a new one today, keeping them submerged in a large container of water, in the fridge. The second photo is supposedly after two weeks. 🤷‍♀️

I saw this on TikTok today. When mine start to get ripe I throw them in the fridge. They seem to keep a really long time that way.

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Bookplate — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 03:14:14 GMT

There was a ban on importing Mexican avocados last week because of a threat made to an American inspector, but it has since been lifted.

U.S. Lifts Temporary Ban on Avocados From Mexico - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

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LisaMofSLC — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 03:14:45 GMT

What's to be expected? The news has been going on and on about avacado shortages. One reporter even said to go buy lots now. So yep, let's cause a run on avocadoes. And avocadoes are the TP of 2020. I will miss them come summer if things don't improve. but don't eat them now anyway.

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LisaMofSLC — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 03:16:23 GMT

That would be good news for many, @Bookplate

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On It — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 03:16:23 GMT

I have been following the cartel story for some time. (I think It was last summer?) They have targeted the avocado industry for a while. It was my understanding their goal was to get control of Mexico's avocado industry. Growers have been having to pay protection money. There were nine cartels involved.

Recently they threatened a US inspector and the inspection process was shut down. The imports stopped for a few days. The avocados started moving again. I do not know if the Mexican government intervened or what caused the inspection process to resume. I have been distracted and did not know about the trucker problem. Avocados cannot waste time getting from the tree to the table.

I hope the cartels have been contained, and the growers can stop living in fear.

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Kachina624 — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 04:08:00 GMT

@LisaMofSLC wrote:
What's to be expected? The news has been going on and on about avacado shortages. One reporter even said to go buy lots now. So yep, let's cause a run on avocadoes. And avocadoes are the TP of 2020. I will miss them come summer if things don't improve. but don't eat them now anyway.

@LisaMofSLC There has been a plentiful supply up until this week. As soon as shipping resumes, they should be back. They are hardly a serious shortage item like tp was.

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Desertdi — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 04:24:20 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:

@LisaMofSLC wrote:
What's to be expected? The news has been going on and on about avacado shortages. One reporter even said to go buy lots now. So yep, let's cause a run on avocadoes. And avocadoes are the TP of 2020. I will miss them come summer if things don't improve. but don't eat them now anyway.
@LisaMofSLC There has been a plentiful supply up until this week. As soon as shipping resumes, they should be back. They are hardly a serious shortage item like tp was.

@Kachina624 @LisaMofSLC And....there should be a supply from Florida and California when avocadoes come "in season".

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wagirl — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 14:16:52 GMT

I was doing that too only I just sliced them to freeze--I used them in my morning smoothies---works very well--once upon a time......I was buying them for 50 cents each!!!! back in the olden days, of course!!!

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MorningLover — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 14:22:30 GMT

Michoacán is the only Mexican state that is authorized to export avocados to the U.S., but the area is also home to drug cartel turf battles, and avocado growers there are sometimes extorted by cartels.

The pause in imports from Mexico comes on the heels of an already caustic season for the green fruit.

California-grown avocados have been hit hard by low rainfall, shrinking crop sizes. Even before the suspension, avocado prices were 100% more expensive than a year ago, according to Rabo Research Food & Agri. business.

Consumption of avocados in the U.S. has doubled to an all-time high over the past decade of nine pounds per capita annually, while prices have increased nearly eightfold over the past two decades, according to data from Bloomberg.

And about eight out of 10 avocados in the U.S. come from Michoacán. That ratio goes up dramatically during the winter months when the vast majority of avocados—about 99%—come from Mexico, the leading producer and exporter of avocados globally.

In the past six weeks alone, Michoacán avocado producers have exported nearly 300 million pounds of avocados to the U.S., the Mexican Agriculture Ministry said.

In short: The U.S. depends on Mexican avocados...

source: Fortune

Feb.16, 2022 article

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candys mine — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 21:11:08 GMT

@On It I hope the solution was with the Mexican Government to Protect the Avocado pipeline.

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chickenbutt — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 21:19:02 GMT

As to the storage bit: I've had occasions where I would just need to use half an avocado and what I did was take the other half, WITH the pit in it, and vacuum seal it to store in the refrigerator.

All I recall, as it's been a few years, is that it stayed very good for at least a week or so.

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ECBG — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 21:12:01 GMT

@Kachina624

Thank you for the method to keep avocados in the freezer.

Our DILove loves them and I sent it to her.

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Icegoddess — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 21:20:19 GMT

If any of those methods actually work and don't change the texture then please let me know. I have tried freezing the whole ones and it just wasn't the same.

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Sooner — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 21:39:11 GMT

We haven't had a problem getting them so far. We buy them every week