Best Banana Ripeness

[Anonymous No.19103565]

There is one (1) correct choice.

[Anonymous No.19103570]

>>19103565
For which application? Cramming? Banana Bread? Guineitos? Bananas Foster?

[Anonymous No.19103576]

I start eating them at 5 and try to finish before they are too 6-ey

[Anonymous No.19103584]

>>19103570
taste, idiot

[Anonymous No.19103585]

3 is the optimal flavour

[Anonymous No.19103586]

4-5

[Anonymous No.19103589]

3. Perfect balance of sweet, tart, and texture.

[Anonymous No.19103590]

>>19103565
6chads rise up

[Anonymous No.19103591]

Whichever banana you choose, I always support you.
Love,
Dad.

[Anonymous No.19103594]

8

[Anonymous No.19103597]

>>19103565
4, more fiber less sugar

[Anonymous No.19103601]

>>19103591
Fuck off anon

[Anonymous No.19103616]

>>19103565
4 for eating raw, 7 for baking with.

[Anonymous No.19103739]

The correct answer is between 6 and 7 but more on the 7 side
If those are my only options, then easy 7

>>19103597
Also less micros. It's never a good idea eating unripe fruit
Even at 7 you have a decent amount of fiber .

If you want the fiber and micros you eat the peel

[Anonymous No.19103741]

7

[Anonymous No.19103755]

>>19103739
Btw if you have trouble remembering just look at this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFDOI24RRAE

[Anonymous No.19103807]

>>19103565
I'll eat them around 4, 5, and 6. Once they're past 6 they've entered banana bread territory. Pic related is what I prefer to use for banana bread. Once they've blackened at room temperature I age them in the fridge for 1 – 3 weeks. They have a pleasant fermented nutty smell when opened. If they've burst open on their own I toss 'em. If they smell repulsive or even the slightest hint of a garbage type smell they're no good and should be disposed of.
Here's the banana bread recipe I use:
Wet:
3 large bananas
120g butter
2 eggs
50g sugar
Vanilla extract

Dry:
180g flour
1 tsp baking soda
Half tsp salt

Mix ins of your choice

Steps:
1. Cream together sugar and butter.
2. Add eggs and vanilla extract, beat until thoroughly combined.
3. Mix in bananas.
4. Wisk together the dry ingredients. Mix the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until no dry spots remain.
5. Preheat oven to 350°F
6. Pour batter into baking dish and bake for 55 – 60 minutes or until it passes skewer/toothpick test.
7. Enjoy!

Of course you can make banana bread with normal ripe bananas, this is just my preference.

[Anonymous No.19103808]

>>19103739
The fuck is a micro, I'm not playing starcraft here

[Anonymous No.19103811]

4

[Anonymous No.19103863]

>>19103565
5

I freeze 7. When you freeze them they take on an ice cream like texture that goes well in smoothies. If you eat these you're a 3rd worlder or a psycho. Most likely both.

[Anonymous No.19103865]

>>19103565
6.5

[Anonymous No.19103878]

>>19103808
pseudoscientific diet bullshit from the mid-2010s. You can safely ignore anybody using these terms.

[Anonymous No.19103910]

>>19103565
>7
not ready yet
>8
still not ripe
>9
make it a ten
>10
still not quite
>11
there we go baby

[Anonymous No.19104150]

>>19103910
based nan

[Anonymous No.19104219]

>>19103565
1 basically inedible
2 is edible but too green
3 and 4 are prime for eating by themselves or in cereal
5 is still good but lean more towards cereal only
6 is serial only
7 is not good, wait till 8 and use for banan bread at this point

[Anonymous No.19104306]

7 for eating, 8+ for everything else. Anything before 7 is shit, the banana gets more flavor at 7.

[Anonymous No.19104311]

>>19103565
7

[Anonymous No.19104317]

>>19104306
Fucking gross

[Anonymous No.19104405]

>>19103878
>vitamins are pseudoscientific diet bullshit
alright bro

[Anonymous No.19104418]

It's surprising to me how many people prefer that dry, astringent taste of unripe bananas. It's 6, after the green has disappeared but it's not overripe like 7+.

[Anonymous No.19104433]

>>19103565
I only eat 7s

[Anonymous No.19104462]

>>19103565
i have a few bananas on my counter at like 9 or 10
feels like a waste to throw them out but they're to gross to eat

[Anonymous No.19104558]

>>19103565
7.

[Anonymous No.19104560]

>>19103586
this

[Anonymous No.19104578]

6 and beyond until the skin starts to crack. Why would you ever eat unripe fruits?

[Anonymous No.19104582]

1-4 are not fit for human consumption
5 for eating
6-7 for baking

The worst is when they go straight from 3 to 7, turning brown while they still have green along the ridges. I don't know why that happens, but I never saw a green/brown banana until 10-15 years ago.

[Anonymous No.19104589]

>>19103807
>Pic related is what I prefer to use for banana bread. Once they've blackened at room temperature I age them in the fridge for 1 – 3 weeks. They have a pleasant fermented nutty smell when opened. If they've burst open on their own I toss 'em. If they smell repulsive or even the slightest hint of a garbage type smell they're no good and should be disposed of.

This is getting into the "thousand year egg" territory of fermentation. So common for that level of ripeness to result in rot. What's your success rate, if you put a bunch of 6 bananas in the fridge, how many can you expect to be usable?

[Anonymous No.19105233]

>>19103565
I really like 2. They taste fresh, sharp, and they're not that soft, gritty texture.

[Anonymous No.19105237]

>>19103565
5

[Anonymous No.19105243]

>>19104589
So long as they don't burst on their own at anytime during the process they're pretty much good up to 3 weeks. Beyond 3 weeks they become very hard to handle without bursting. At 2 weeks they're usually all good, at 3 weeks I might have to toss one or two out of a bunch of six. I might try taking them further some day. One time I found a solitary banana at the back of the fridge that had basically mummified. It was shriveled and shrunken from evaporation and its peel was tough and leathery. I could have used it as it had not burst, but I couldn't bring myself to trust it as I did not know how long it had been in there.

[Anonymous No.19105252]

5 is optimal, 6 is acceptable too.

[Anonymous No.19105326]

>>19103565
6

[Anonymous No.19106340]

>>19103565
7 will contain less indigestible fiber to feed to vile gut bacteria, but it will still contain large quantities of toxic chitinases. Bananas, unfortunately, can hardly be considered food. It is no coincidence that those peoples which consume large quantities of banana, for example in the Caribbean and West Africa, are known for their torpid demeanor and sluggish cognition.

[Anonymous No.19106354]

>>19103565
It has to have black spots or it's disgusting.

[Anonymous No.19106373]

6.5

[Anonymous No.19106375]

>>19106340
Ah, yes, here we have today's excuse for the blacks.

[Anonymous No.19106383]

>>19103565
1 is best to shove up your ass.

[Anonymous No.19106392]

>>19103565
For just eating on its own?
2, 3 at ripest
For use in a dessert or smoothie?
Inbetween, 4 or 5
Banana bread? 7 or riper

[Anonymous No.19106550]

>>19103590

[Anonymous No.19106575]

>>19103565
7 for smoothies 6 for eating.

[Anonymous No.19106683]

>>19103565
6 for eating
7 for baking

[Anonymous No.19106695]

>>19103565
4/5 for peel and eat
6 for peanut butter and banana sandwich
7 for banana bread

[Anonymous No.19106722]

>>19103565
Won't even touch one until it's at a 6.5 then they're ready to eat or store in the fridge

[Anonymous No.19106728]

>>19103576
sbpb

[Anonymous No.19106736]

>>19104418
Yea this. These muther fockers be eating green ass, tangy, mouth-drying bananas..I'm a 5.5 man myself.

[Anonymous No.19106739]

>>19106736
and what are we talking girth wise?

[Anonymous No.19107751]

I don't understand why people like unripe bananas. It's not ripe until 6. What really should be discussed is what ripeness one prefers between 6 and 7.

[Anonymous No.19107754]

>>19103565
6

[Anonymous No.19107868]

>>19106739
Never measured but honestly I'm not too far off girth wise from a normal banana

[Anonymous No.19107877]

>>19103565
7.
The more ripe a banana is, the more of the potassium the skin has leeched into the flesh, so the healthier it is.

[Anonymous No.19107884]

>>19103807
BASED Effort-Poaster
Bonus pts. for process reasons.

[Anonymous No.19108244]

>>19103565
3,7