I prefer them to still be a bit green, and starting to yellow.

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    I like my bananas yellow, with the brown dots just starting to appear. That’s the perfect sweetness, flavor, and texture.

    When I was a kid, my mom thought bananas were too expensive, so they were a rare treat. To this day, eating a banana feels like a candy bar to me.

    When I was an adult, with a job, and my own apartment, I was grocery shopping, and about to pass the bananas because they were too expensive, I saw that they were only about 60 cents a pound. A giant bunch of bananas, more than I’d ever seen in my house in my life, was less than $2!

    I have always had a few bananas in my kitchen ever since.

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    Absolutly none. Can’t stand bananas. Need to wash my hands after peeling them for my kids when they were young.
    Think it’s the weird texture.
    And also the awful flavour.

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      I prefer around 9-10, once they get get to the 12+ stage they go in the freezer ready for banana ice cream or baking.

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      I prefer an 8, but would also do 7 or 9. Anything less is too firm for me, and the taste is oddly sour, anything larger is way to soft and way too fucking sweet, like, to the point that it just tastes awful.

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      Good graphic. 7 or 8 for me. In the teens for banana nut bread.

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      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.

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      6 - 10 anything riper goes in the freezer and becomes banana muffins later. I’m amazed anyone likes green banana.

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      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.

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      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.

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      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.

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      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)

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      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.

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      Amazing, a banana scale!

      My ideal type would be 8.5 . But I’m happy with 7 - 10.

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    Between no Green and no brown. So that narrows it down to about 15 minutes. I prefer a bit of brown to a bit of Green

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      This is the only right answer. These green banana eating monsters are clearly deranged.

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    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.

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      8 days ago

      Yep! I learnt that the hard way. It was like I had to burp really badly, but couldn’t. ;-;

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      This is the correct answer!

      All you “Extra ripe” mofos terrify me,

      Isn’t it like eating sweet gooey, undercooked eggs or something…

      gag

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    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