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    How do you ripen a banana?
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    Place it in the microwave for 30 seconds. Let the banana cool, then continue heating it in the microwave for another 30 seconds until it reaches the desired ripening.
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    Will a packing carton do instead of the paper bags?
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    If your box is brown cardboard without wax, and if the bananas are held close together but not crammed, then yes.
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    Does electric light ripen bananas like window sun?
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    Warmth does work. Putting green bananas in the dark works well; that's why the bag trick works. Put them in a pantry or closet.
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    Should I close the paper bag to ripen the bananas?
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    It shouldn't be entirely airtight, but enough to hold in some/most of the ethylene gas. I suppose leaving it open wouldn't be too bad, but it would depend on how fast you want them to ripen.
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    I pick my banana off the tree a week ago been having them in a brown paper bag since I picked them travel by car from Fla banana still not ripe
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    Try putting the bag on top of your fridge. If they never ripen, give them up for banana bread and bake them in the oven to ripen them.
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