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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Banana bread is super easy to make. The only reason i don't make it more often is because it's basically cake in disguise.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Grill it with chocolate.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Tbh these don't even look that bad. Even many times you peel one of these and they are totally fine on the inside

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

what is the logo of x doing here?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

There is a snack called appam made with wheat/rice flour, which calls for overripe bananas. For this level of browned bananas, you probably don't even need to add sugar seperately.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I wasn’t ready quite yet so I put them in a bag in the freezer.

The bag got so full I had to move to a bigger bag.

My freezer is half full of brown, frozen bananas.

I don’t even like banana bread. Help.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Bananas act as egg substitutes. Add to any sweet baked thing, like waffles or pancakes.

Edit: peel them first, and put them on a plate in the freezer before you stick them in a freezer bag. It's much less intimidating when you don't have to deal with peeling a shitty slimy frozen banana.

Edit edit: Muffins are superior.

[–] ciapatri 17 points 1 week ago

I cut them up into chunks before freezing and then use for smoothies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Buy a chest freezer

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Don't tell me what I do and don't do

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Finally! A use for my old bananas AND excess nut butter!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Haha, I took this post as motivation to finally use up those frozen bananas I had. Now I have banana bread muffins in my freezer instead. It's a good upgrade if you ask me.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

I always thought overripe bananas weren't great for you. But apparently, they are good.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I love banana smoothie way more than banana bread. Put a couple ripe bananas, some sugar, milk, blend. Enjoy. Less effort and more bananas used.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Suugar? Ripe banana is already sweet enough.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Lose the sugar and add a date or two. Makes it whip up into a totally different consistency for some reason.

[–] UnRelatedBurner 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I might not be getting some joke here, but what's a "date" in this context?

[–] Ookami38 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] UnRelatedBurner 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Oh, thanks! I'm not native so I didn't know.

[–] Ookami38 1 points 5 days ago

No problem, friend. Certainly not the first thing my mind goes to when I consider eating my date :p

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Oh interesting twist, will keep in mind

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[–] FreshLight 3 points 1 week ago

My research showed that even 1µg of banana is enough to make the whole damn smoothie taste like nothing but banana so I leave them out of my smoothies.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The key to amazing banana bread is to make it with soft, brown sugar. The stuff that is clumpy, glistening with moisture, reminiscent of molasses. It adds so much to the flavor. And actual nuts, of course.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

This makes me think you could use straight sorghum, or mix in some with brown sugar.

Also makes me want to try panela, unrefined whole cane sugar from Central and South America

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I do in fact use unrefined, brown cane sugar, although I have not tried panela specifically.

The one I use pretty much looks like this:

It's an organic fair trade brand, but I'd have to look up where it is imported from.

As I said, I can't imagine making it with any other kind of sugar any more. Sorghum seems like an interesting idea, might have to experiment with that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Isn't it reminiscent of molasses because brown sugar has molasses in it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Yes, that is absolutely correct.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My Grandmother won't eat them until they're like this.

I'm a 'just a hint of green' girl.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

So you like 'em young and hard?

Sorry.

[–] shartworx 11 points 1 week ago

I always make the banana bread.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Freeze them! Frozen banana is even better than fresh in milkshake.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You can make banane flambée !

  • Split the bananas length-wise as good as possible, they should split in 3.
  • lay them done in a pan
  • heat it until hot, no need to cook them too much
  • sprinkle with powdered sugar
  • prepare a ~~shit~~shot glass of brown rhum and some matches (or lighter)
  • pour the shot on the bananas and light it on fire !!! 🔥
  • turn of the heat, let it extinguish buy itself

Et voilà ! You have delicious caramelized banana desert!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

prepare a shit glass of brown [...]

I... don't think I will

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sometimes I just hate the autocorrect on my phone... I meant to write "shot glass of rhum"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

All good, I was making a joke :P

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

I had to control my laugh during a meeting :D

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I like to make banana milk with those really brown bananas. In fact, I let them age just so they are nice and sweet.

I take 1 or 2 bananas, break them in chunks and put them in a measuring cup that holds around 1L, add a bit of vanilla extract, fill with milk to cover banana chunks, blend with a stick blender until smooth, fill milk to the top, blend a bit more just to mix everything, done. Serves one (me) or two (regular) people.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have a chest freezer in my garage full of bananas that begs to differ.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

If your bananas have developed sentience and started to beg, you've left them too long!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have a female friend that just sprinkles cinnamon on it and mashes them with a fork and says it’s delicious. Yeah she’s crazy. I suggested putting some palm olive on it so it would make easier to scrape it into the garbage bin

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Let them spend some time in the freezer. There's still a chance they could be used in pancakes or dog biscuits...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

But I always make banana cake!!! Mmmmmm

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Some good ideas in here!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I estimate I make the banana bread 13-20% of the time.

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