Never Too Young to Enjoy California Avocados
this is john kohler with okraw.com. todayi have another exciting episode for you. we're outside one of my favorite stores here toshop at, especially when we're shopping for what i'm going to share with you guys today.avocadoes. i love avocadoes, and the first tip i want to share with you guys on pickinga proper avocado is come to a place that sells lots of avocadoes, and unfortunately manyjust standard supermarkets, well they do sell avocados, they don't sell a lot, and now ifyou go to a place that sells a lot, number one, they're going to have better prices andnumber 2, they're going to have generally better selection for you. so, we're outsidethis store called marketon, and actually this is a supermarket that specializes in hispanic/ethnicfoods. so, like a mexican market, a hispanic
market, asian markets, they're generally goingto be a better place to go than your standard american supermarket for your avocadoes. welcometo john's school of raw(k). today we're going to teach you guys how to pick out some avocadoes.over here, we've got the haas avocados. these are 3 for $1. these are grown in mexico. numberone, you know, haas are generally grown in california, mexico, or chile. now, over allelse, i prefer the california grown ones, then next maybe the mexican and then finallythe chilean. i find the chilean and even the mexican so much don't have a high oil contentor that flavor that i'm looking for. so, i normally wouldn't even buy these and actuallytoday i'm probably not, but you'll see here in a minute. on these guys, these are mexicans,and avocadoes come in different sizes. these
are actually a small kind and that's why they're3 for $1. that's definitely a good price, but number 1 these are not organic. so, normallyi do purchase inorganic avocadoes because they are on the clean 15 list, so, you know,that's not an issue. one thing you want to look for is you want to look for a littlenub, and the nub is like this, it's a little stem sticking out. sometimes it's a big stemlike that, sometimes it's just a little one, but you generally do not want to get one withouta nubby. so, here's the good one with a nubby, and here's the one without a nubby. so, thereason you don't want to get one without the nubby is because without the nubby it's goingto rotten faster, plus if you have ants, then that's going to go in there and start eatingthe fruit, and then it won't ever ripen up
properly either. one of the things we're lookingfor in avocadoes, especially when you're buying them by the each is number 1 you want to pickout the largest ones possible. that means you're going to get the biggest value, andif you have a choice between one that's like this, or like this, obviously the better oneis this one. generally what you want to look for is you want one with a dull skin. in generali think those are the more mature one than the ones with the skin that's not quite asdull. of course, if you want ripe ones, you want to just gently feel, and don't presstoo hard with your fingers to keep from bruising them, right around the edge here, and pressgently as to not bruise your fruit 'cause that's no good, bruised fruit, and of coursethey should yield to gentle pressure. if they're
too soft and they're not good and you couldliterally depress your thumb in here a lot, that means it's probably rotten and i justwon't even buy it. aside from haas avocadoes, we also have florida avocadoes here. floridaavocadoes, actually they're from florida, so i have these and the haas from mexico,but also they're significantly more expensive. they're $2.50. now, the florida avocadoes,once again, you want to get with nubbies instead of without and also you want to look out forbad ones. in general you can see that this one's pretty soft and also it has a lot ofbruised spots around it. so, that's defiantly not a good thing, that's discoloration. now,these ones are actually much lower in fat so they're more watery avocadoes than likethe haas. i don't prefer these too much, but
i always like to rotate different varieties.like, do you always eat fuji apples, or sometimes do you get the granny smith or honey crisps?so, i like to rotate my avocadoes, but, yea, picking's pretty much the same thing. youwant to just pick nice large fruits and most of the time you're not going to find one optimallyripe, so there's been times when i've had to go to like 5 stores in one night just tofind a ripe avocado to eat in my salad at night. the kind of avocado i'm going to gettoday are these guys. these are fuerte avocado and these are 3 for $1, and these guys aregrown in california. so, the haas avocado is basically a big version of the fuerte.so, fuertes taste similar to the haas, but in my opinion fuertes taste much better. onceagain, we're looking for nice large ones.
they are 3 for $1 today, and instead of onesthat have the long skinny necks, i prefer to find ones that're more kind of lie rounded,like this. you're going to get more fruit and also sometimes the ones with the longskinny necks don't tend to ripen up too quickly. alright, so i'm just picking a few of thesefuerte avocadoes. these are probably my favorite avocado. of course, if you don't live nearcalifornia you may not find these. these are actually kind of rare to find. now let's seehere. just picking through and i pity the fool that comes after to me to buy their avocadoesbecause i'm getting all the good ones here, but in any case i hope you guys enjoyed thisepisode. once again, it's really easy to pick avocadoes. number one, you want to get thenice large ones, especially when they're by
the each. number 2 is you want the ones thatare rounded, not the ones with necks. they're going to have more fruit on it for you, andin general you want when they're more dull than shiny, but sometimes you might not beable to do that, and you also want to look for even ripening. sometimes avocadoes willripen ununiformaly. so, like some parts will be soft and some parts will be really hard.those are the ones you don't want to get. also, you want to make sure you have a nubbyin there, and the main tip for ripening your avocadoes is keep them in a tropicalish environment.so, i you keep your house at like between 70-80, you know, keep them outside the fridgeto ripen properly, maybe even in a windowsill. if you do put them in the fridge, they maynot ripen properly, so you always want to
keep them out of the fridge and then oncethey are ripe if you can't eat them fast enough, then put them in the fridge to hold them attheir current ripeness for a little but longer than if you left them out. so, hopefully withthese tips you'll be able to navigate to more avocadoes on your fresh fruit and vegetablediet. once again, my name is john kohler with okraw.com. we'll see you next time and remember,keep eating you're fresh fruits and vegetables. they're the best. what do you call when youpull out and avocado like this and they all fall? an avolanche.
