I prefer them to still be a bit green, and starting to yellow.
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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.
Good graphic. 7 or 8 for me. In the teens for banana nut bread.
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.
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.
6 - 10 anything riper goes in the freezer and becomes banana muffins later. I’m amazed anyone likes green banana.
4, 5, or 6 for me please.
My man!
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.
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.
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)
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.
Amazing, a banana scale!
My ideal type would be 8.5 . But I’m happy with 7 - 10.
9-13 looks good to me. Below is green, above looks like the insides are getting too much brown already.
9 ± 2, 3 if I’m hungry.
8 to 10 is ideal. Below 5 or 6 is not ripe. Above 10 is banana bread territory.
9 to 14
Completely agree!
Correct.
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.
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.
Love a 50/50 green yellow banana. When they have a good snap and that green taste? Yummm
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
Yellow with freckles. Green is too starchy and weird tasting to me. I like a ripe banana.
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
yellow for eating directly, brown for banana bread.
Spotty or oozing, which is just right for banana bread.
This is the only right answer. These green banana eating monsters are clearly deranged.
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.
Yep! I learnt that the hard way. It was like I had to burp really badly, but couldn’t. ;-;
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
3-4 for me.
My vote goes to 3-5
Yeah you’re right. I’d eat a 5.
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.
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 maybe 6
Thoroughly freckled, nearly alcohol.
Banana schnapps!
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?
