Green bananas

Well we eschewed Arnie Palmer's advice and bought green bananas. Over a week later they are still inedible. Any advice on changing that? Anything we should have done earlier to ripen these?

Mike, as long as you haven't put them in the frig at anytime, they are easy to ripen. Put them in a paper bag with an apple. It concentrates the ethylene.

If you've refrigerated them however, just go ahead and throw them on the compost heap now. You most likely won't be able to get them to ripen at all.

Great advice from Cynthia, with one caveat -- some bananas are green when ripe. Before composting them, check them out.