What is your preferred banana ripeness?

I personally prefer a 9 or 10, and would rather an 11 than an 8

I think they’re a bit tangy when green and don’t like them that way. I prefer full on yellow, perhaps with a smidge of browning.

I prefer mine with freckles.

Yellowish green. Fiber, sweetness and not a choking hazard.

Between no Green and no brown. So that narrows it down to about 15 minutes. I prefer a bit of brown to a bit of Green

Yellow with freckles. Green is too starchy and weird tasting to me. I like a ripe banana.

Firm, slightly green still.

Yellow, fully ripe bananas, are high in fructans which for me and many others, cause digestion issues, discomfort, and that lingering taste/feeling.

yellow for eating directly, brown for banana bread.

Barely no longer green

Spotty or oozing, which is just right for banana bread.

A decent amount of green, there’s like a one or two day window where it’s possible to peel them normally without the peel snapping, but where there’s still a little bit of the underripe sourness to them

Thoroughly freckled, nearly alcohol.

For eating, when they have significant brown spots on them. For baking or banana-yoghurt when they are completely brown.
Also obligatory: How Brown has a banana to be, to be Bad?

Non existent. I do not recognise this object as food.

7

Love a 50/50 green yellow banana. When they have a good snap and that green taste? Yummm

Yellow with freckles on the peel

I prefer a very ripe banana, though uncooked makes my mouth itchy and I get violent heartburn… I’m allergic to cross pollination in bananas, so I can only eat them cooked.

still be a bit green, and starting to yellow.

Same. Bananas, avocados, and artichokes all get this weird but similar taste when they get ripe beyond the point I can enjoy them. Idk what it is exactly or even how to describe the taste, but some people seem to either not notice a difference or actively be seeking it out.

Most ready made guacamole always seems to have that same flavor. Honestly not sure if there’s even a name for it, but it almost makes me gag.

Usually the one they were yesterday.

Half brown, sweet

Browned and then mashed and then made into banana bread

Do plantains count? If so may I introduce you to the illustrious jibarito

I might be the weird one but I like them dark green the greener the better.

I dont know when in the lifecycle of a banana this happens, but after they transformed into banana ice cream

I better eat this now, because I won’t be able to in a couple of hours.

green to lime yellow.

I like the freshness and grassy flavor.

my parents would eat them black and it just put me off them.

I rarely have a banana unless it’s with rice crispys or cheerios.

I really like them almost entirely brown, mashed up with butter and mixed with some flour, sugar, an egg or two and a hint of vanilla extract, all baked in the oven for like an hour.

When they are brown and mushy.

Because thats when you can turn them into banana bread.

If I am going to just eat the banana by itself, I prefer it to look fake as fuck and bright yellow. Just ripe enough that the peel isn’t super hard to remove.

I haven’t tried frying one, tho. Might be better if it’s still green for two reasons: Higher sugar content for caramlizing and firmer so it doesn’t just melt away.

The yellowest one that doesn’t have too much brown. If there’s some green it usually won’t taste as sweet, but if it’s too brown it will be mushy and gross.

As with most things I have a “in the moment” preference. I’m not gonna be sad if they’re as OP described or very brown and sweet, but I’ll have a “man, I would have rather have them this way” and what way that is is different from time to time. Can have one or several hours, days, weeks or months of preferring one kind then it’ll just change. Generally like change and things to be different rather than the same all the time.

3-4 for me.

Stop trolling. Green bananas are disgusting.

I like my bananas yellow, with the brown dots just starting to appear. That’s the perfect sweetness, flavor, and texture.

When I was a kid, my mom thought bananas were too expensive, so they were a rare treat. To this day, eating a banana feels like a candy bar to me.

When I was an adult, with a job, and my own apartment, I was grocery shopping, and about to pass the bananas because they were too expensive, I saw that they were only about 60 cents a pound. A giant bunch of bananas, more than I’d ever seen in my house in my life, was less than $2!

I have always had a few bananas in my kitchen ever since.

Hard green for boiled bananas. Ripened on tree for yellow banana.

Just after the last tinge of green has faded.

When they start to smell sweet

Green to sate hunger. yellow, starting to brown for sweet treat.

I eat the whole hand of bananas within 24 hours so the need to be ripe. A green banana tastes terrible and I have no self control

Five, six, or seven. I’ll go to eight, to not waste the banana. I’ll eat four on cereal. I’d never eat one, two, or three.

Sliced and dried in chip form.

For frying, green is good. For eating as dessert, dark yellow with freckles

Blender with protein powder and blueberries. Cannot handle the texture at any ripeness

Very under ripe. I like how it tastes likes shit and leaves that weird coating on your tongue that is hard to get rid of. Refreshing.

Absolutly none. Can’t stand bananas. Need to wash my hands after peeling them for my kids when they were young.
Think it’s the weird texture.
And also the awful flavour.

The riper the better

Artificial.

Right before they’re good only for sweet bread.

Quite.

I like em when they start to ferment

The greener you like it, the more monkey you are.

They are not ripe unless spotted.

They are over ripe if brown.