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.
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.
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I can’t put into words how much I despise bananas.
Luckily every single banana plant is a clone so it’s likely that one single blight will wipe them all out.
No if I can just figure out how to create a blight.
Non existent. I do not recognise this object as food.
Hmm. This doesn’t sound like the reply I’d expect out of an opportunistic bottom-feeder. Sure you’re a catfish?
You tell me little dog
Improvise, adapt, overcome.
I personally prefer a 9 or 10, and would rather an 11 than an 8
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.
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.
9 to 14
4, 5, or 6 for me please.
My man!
9-13 looks good to me. Below is green, above looks like the insides are getting too much brown already.
Good graphic. 7 or 8 for me. In the teens for banana nut bread.
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.
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.
6 - 10 anything riper goes in the freezer and becomes banana muffins later. I’m amazed anyone likes green banana.
Correct.
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)
9 ± 2, 3 if I’m hungry.
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.
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.
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.
Completely agree!
Amazing, a banana scale!
My ideal type would be 8.5 . But I’m happy with 7 - 10.
I prefer a very ripe banana, though uncooked makes my mouth itchy and I get violent heartburn… I’m allergic to cross pollination in bananas, so I can only eat them cooked.
Holy cow that sounds rough. I used to eat Kiwis with my grandma when I was a kid (42 now) and I recently grabbed one at the store. I’m pretty sure I’m allergic to it, I don’t remember it being that tingly and mouth numbing lol.
Allergies can develop/worsen over time, so maybe it’s worse now after not having eaten them. As a kid, I always hated eating apples and bananas. I figured it was because they were healthy and you’re not really supposed to like eating them lol
Got any good recipes for cooked bannannas you could share?
Banana bread is the classic. Fried plantains are also excellent. Unfortunately, most methods of destroying the pollen enzymes also make the banana mush, so there’s not much you can use it in. Throwing the cooked banana into smoothies/milkshakes is good.
7
For eating, when they have significant brown spots on them. For baking or banana-yoghurt when they are completely brown.
Also obligatory: How Brown has a banana to be, to be Bad?Barely no longer green
This is the correct answer!
All you “Extra ripe” mofos terrify me,
Isn’t it like eating sweet gooey, undercooked eggs or something…
gag
3-4 for me.
I’d say 6.5. I like to see a few brown spots but 7 is verging on too far. I’d happily eat any of 5-7.
6 looks perfect
7 is where thr real taste of banana begins. Pre-7 on your so called chart is not even ripe bennana. Bannana is good until it is dirt. The mold gives good flavor, like cheese. To think that so many individuals could be out of the loop of real banana eating. What horrible ignorance of man.
7 is where my wife starts making banana bread, o so I don’t mind.
My vote goes to 3-5
Yeah you’re right. I’d eat a 5.
7 maybe 6
Yellow with freckles. Green is too starchy and weird tasting to me. I like a ripe banana.
I think they’re a bit tangy when green and don’t like them that way. I prefer full on yellow, perhaps with a smidge of browning.
I get that. I like the tang, they’re a bit too sweet for me when they’re too ripe.
Same here. Also, the greener the banana is, the more resistant starch it has, which is good for your microbiome
Damn right. Maybe with a smidge of peanut butter.
I prefer mine with freckles.
Oh, stop it. You’re gonna make me blush 🥰
Yellowish green. Fiber, sweetness and not a choking hazard.
yellow for eating directly, brown for banana bread.
When they are brown and mushy.
Because thats when you can turn them into banana bread.
If I am going to just eat the banana by itself, I prefer it to look fake as fuck and bright yellow. Just ripe enough that the peel isn’t super hard to remove.
I haven’t tried frying one, tho. Might be better if it’s still green for two reasons: Higher sugar content for caramlizing and firmer so it doesn’t just melt away.
