Staggering varieties of Apples some of which are delightful. Wish there was some sort of clearly labelled Apple sample pack.
Also, not a single green or yellow apple over 80.
Apple Rankings
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#102I once spent a month blind taste-testing apples with my wife to compare the apples in our supermarket. We learned 4 things: 1) Most of the Honeycrisp varietals that make it to market are good (Wild Twist and Cosmic Crisp being our favorites), but… 2) The time of year makes a HUGE difference. It seems obvious when I say it, but different varietals from different farms are best in different weeks. Honeycrisp has an adv…
Point #4 is totally on point!
I slice lots of apples to share with my kid and there is such an unexpected difference depending on the variety we buy. Some apples really benefit from being cut into wedges!
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#103This is good. We need one for mangoes as well.
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#104The annoying thing about this website is I can't find anywhere that lists the apples by rank, in any of their 12 categories. A ranking website should, y'know, rank things.
Scroll down, it's hidden below the fullpage background image for a single search box
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#105Without going into the contents of the article, I was surprised to learn recently the number of varieties of apple available. Then I learned apple sweetness and tartness rankings is a thing. I don’t understand why so many exist and need to exist. Why didn’t the whole market just coalesce on a few(2/3) varieties? Do people actively seek a specific variety and all these are in vogue?
It’s doubly strange when you realize there’s basically a single species of banana that we all eat.
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#106The annoying thing about this website is I can't find anywhere that lists the apples by rank, in any of their 12 categories. A ranking website should, y'know, rank things.
This is a comedy website that uses rankings as a method for delivering jokes. Hope this helps.
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#107Now this is the kind of important tech/nerd info that I come to HN for! 10/10
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I'm only familiar with several of the varieties on this page, but I definitely agree with the rankings. We used to buy Gala, Fuji or Juici, since there were the cheapest at the store and we didn't know better, but once we tried Honeycrisp we never went back. (Cosmic Crisp also ok but not as good. I'd also rank Envy a bit lower.)
Also, best cider I've had is from Honeycrisp apples.
Red/Golden Delicious are tasteless garbage. Granny Smith is ok for particular dishes so I'd probably rank it a bit higher.
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#108A lot of terrible eating apples are great for baking, Granny Smith for example. Also, red delicious _used_ to be, well, delicious. But selective breeding made them taste terrible: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Delicious Wonder if the same will happen to other popular varieties, or if apple growers know better now.
I dunno - honeycrisp is not bad in a pie either. Depends on your preferred consistency at the end game.
Preference for consistency is also very subjective - gala apples while "mediocre" were preferred by my kids as they're "softer" when slightly overripe, better for smaller younger mouths.
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#109Wrong, granny smith is number one.
For baking an apple pie, not for eating directly.
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#110They've ranked Granny Smith as "Not worth eating" so right off the bat I can tell you the rating system is junk. It loses the most points on its "density." Can't say I've ever eaten a granny smith and thought "I enjoy this taste, but I sure wish I could change the density."
They have Fuji below Gala. I'm surprised you made it that far.
I was waiting to see this comment. These two are very popular in US markets but are world's apart in the opposite direction. Gala are straight mush. TBF they do caveat: "You MUST buy Gala’s that are grown where it is currently Autumn... for an off-season Gala may be nothing more than a six-month old, previously frozen, grain silo in a fruit jacket." Which is 75% of the time...