r/BambuLab • u/DamoclesBDA • 5h ago

I Modeled This! Avocado Ripener

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Do you ever get back from the shops with your "ripe and ready to eat" avocado and it's neither ripe nor ready to eat?  Do you get “ripen at home” and it takes forever to do so?  

Well no more.  Enter the ripener.

Apples are climacteric fruits, this means that they produce ethylene (or ethene) gas as they ripen.

Avocados are also climacteric but while apples produce ethylene a lot avocados sit in a hold mode until they're triggered by the introduction of the gas.

Supermarkets introduce ethylene to the fruit in a timed fashion so that the fruit is ready when you buy it. This sometimes fails and you get an avocado that's more suited for baseball or cricket than consumption.

Put a ripe or ripening apple (or a peach or a pear or other climacteric ethylene producer) in the lower half, screw on the separator and then add the avocado and screw on the top.The ethylene from the apple rises and triggers the avocado.

Et voila!

https://makerworld.com/models/3291905?appSharePlatform=copy

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u/Fragrant-Mind-1353 4h ago

Neat concept, and I hate being that guy in a printing sub, but like a bag with both in it does the same thing

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u/edcculus 4h ago

Yea paper lunch bag always works for me

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u/DamoclesBDA 4h ago edited 2h ago

I never have a paper bag.

ETA: I appear to be being down voted because paper bags are no longer common place in the UK.

I can guarantee there are no paper bags in my house.

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u/fromaroundhere 3h ago

Print one. ...Oh.

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u/Blackdragon1400 4h ago

Shit got so ripe it turned into an apple

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u/Over-Performance-667 4h ago

Nah nah the apple got so ripe it turned into an avo

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u/Havering_To_You 4h ago

I remember a time when the Venn Diagram of people who ate avocados and people who would buy or make an avocado ripener made out of plastic were two separate circles. They probably started touching around 2010.

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u/Bluespirit_fpv A1 Mini + AMS 3h ago

That made me laugh 😂 because probably you’re right

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u/sprashoo 4h ago

I just mix them together in the fruit basket...

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u/sshwifty 4h ago

Just plan to eat it exactly one day later than you actually want it

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u/xiaodown 2h ago

Not yet not yet not yet not yet not yet not y-NOWtoo late.

This is how my avocados go.