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The window of time is short before avocados turn on you but there is a quick storage tip to help avocados stay fresh longer.

Avocados make you work for their love. The perfect piece of avocado toast or bowl of guacamole is at the mercy of whichever day your avocados decide to ripen-and then, that window of time is short before the avocados turn on you, going from bright green or mushy brown in a matter of hours.

With avocados, it's always like you're hurrying to wait and waiting to hurry. According to Southern Living magazine, who carried out a few experiments with these green devils, "real love is worth a little work."

They asked: "After all that waiting, once your avocados are perfectly ripe, what's the best way to store them to keep them fresh? We tested a simple hack-storing avocados in water-to see if it worked."

Here are the results.

Writer Kaitlyn Yarborough admits she discovered the clever storage trick on TikTok confessing "I'd never heard of. This hack could be just what you need when working your way through a big bag of avocados."

The method seemed simple enough: You submerge whole avocados in cool water in an airtight container and place it in the fridge. Leave the container there until you're ready to use. Take it out, dry off the avocados, and enjoy.

Kaitlyn said: "To measure the success, I left one avocado out on the counter, one in the vegetable drawer in the fridge, and one submerged in a food storage container filled with cold water."

"When I left, the avocados were still partially green, but turning dark in some areas. They were already getting slightly tender to the touch. Not soft, but tender enough to feel my fingers indent when gently squeezing them-perhaps two days away from being near perfectly ripe.

I" began the experiment on Wednesday, a day before I was leaving town. I returned late Sunday and did not check the results until Monday, around five days after embarking on the avocado mission. To say the least, the three avocados had aged quite differently."

She reports the avocado that I left out on the counter was very dark and very squishy. "When I cut it open, it was brown on the inside. Ick."

The avocado in the vegetable drawer in the fridge was dark in colour, very soft to the touch, and somehow still perfectly green on the inside. Edible, creamy, delicious.

But she reveals: "The avocado that was submerged whole in water in an airtight container hadn't aged at all!"

"There were no visible changes that I could tell upon first glance. When I cut it in half, it wasn't even ripe enough yet! Visually, it was gorgeous and bright green. However, it was too firm to enjoy. I was impressed that the storage hack had worked, albeit a little too well!"