You can tell that these bananas are ripe right before I feel them, making them extra squishy to stomp on. I start lightly, but it quickly becomes a big mess. This was my first squishing and I didn't realize a plate wasn't big enough. I kept trying to use my toes to push the banana mush back to the middle of the plate for more squishing, but some of it inevitable ended up falling over the edge of my plate. I know you'd love to eat right off my messy, tasty toes