What is the best way to keep bananas?

To ripen properly, bananas should be stored at room temperature. They should not be stored in a plastic bag or in the refrigerator because bananas in plastic bags may not ripen evenly, and bananas in the refrigerator stop ripening.

Many people like bananas to be yellow or mostly yellow when they eat them. Unripened green bananas can be hard to digest, and placing them overnight in a brown paper bag with an apple or onion makes them ripen faster. To slow down ripening, bananas can be placed in the refrigerator. Very ripe bananas make moist banana bread; the riper a banana, the sweeter and creamier it is.