Fun fact - avocados don’t ripen on the tree, they must be picked first!

I’ve been using avocado ripening pouches for a couple of years now, and it’s perfect for when you buy a big Costco bag of hard green avocados, and would like to ripen a couple ahead of the rest. If you know someone doing the keto diet, you’ll know that avocado is a staple food, and these would make a unique little hostess gift or stocking stuffer for any avocado lover.

The secret to why they work? The lanolin in 100% wool helps keep the ripening hormones in contact with the fruit, speeding up ripening by at least half the time. (I usually have a ripe avocado the morning of the second day in the pouch)

I recommend using 100% sheep’s wool that is as natural as possible, although dyed wool does work, any extra processing will leave the wool with less lanolin, I don’t recommend superwash wool, for that reason.

Here in Canada our avocados come from Mexico, and I designed it to fit the biggest one I could find at the store. If you’re in the States, and buy the giant California avocados, you may need to add a couple of extra rounds to the base circle, and a few more rows before starting the ribbing. The camel stitch and ribbing pattern in the pouch make it very stretchy, so it should hold most common sized avocados with ease.

Fresh guac, here we come!