I wonder how many fewer clicks the article would have received had the title been “Ranking apples”
Apple Rankings
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#112I don't know what's with the hate on Granny Smith. I love Granny Smith apples. They are especially good for making Waldorf salad. They are also my favorite to eat with honey at new years. They have a nice crispy texture and are delightfully tangy.
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#113This ranking seems pretty plausible to me if you're buying your apples at the supermarket. It gives good marks to varieties which maintain their texture through weeks (or months!) of refrigeration. On the other hand, if you're at an apple orchard and deciding what to pick to eat right now, this is not the list for you. A Cortland, McIntosh, or Macoun right off the tree easily beats a Honey/Cosmic/etc crisp.
Yep. I live in New England, and in the fall it is easy to get fresh Macs and Cortlands, and always so much better than what is in the supermarkets most of the time. Honeycrisps are just too sweet (don't get me started about sweet corn!).
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#114Without 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?
The comments column table will help:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_apple_cultivars
There used to be more than the current 7500 cultivars. Many went extinct. There are groups that scour abandoned homesteads looking for surviving trees of lost varieties.
One reason there are so many is that apple trees are readily planted, but each new tree produces a completely different variety of fruit. Rule of thumb is that 1% of trees produce something edible, 0.1% something good, and 0.01% something commercializable.
For this reason, almost all apples you eat come from clones. (As they have been for 100's-1000's of years.)
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#115Scrolls to bottom Red delicious in the bottom 10. Perfect. This also reminds me of a side project blog I built years ago where I’d review and rank chips (potato/tortilla/other). Was a fun creative outlet for a while but life got too busy. I hope to pick it back up some day.
Years ago, my friend and I had a tumblr called Loo York City where we reviewed bar bathrooms in NYC. We had some fun nights drinking at bars and writing up grandiose assessments about life based on where you go pee. The page received no traction whatsoever and we eventually took it down, but I still have local copies of the reviews and reread them more often than I care to admit. The writing is more entertaining and memory-triggering than any free-form journal I ever attempted.
Nowadays, I write beer (and sometimes wine) reviews in a similar matter. I would never post them on untappd or elsewhere because the thought of someone who brewed the beer actually stumbling across something so self-indulgent makes me uneasy, but I have found it to be a fun, low-stakes creative outlet (even if my wife dislikes me writing notes while we're out)
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#116I wonder how many fewer clicks the article would have received had the title been “Ranking apples”
> had the title been “Ranking apples”
That gives a totally different meaning though
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#117How many klicked thinking it was something related to apple
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#118God bless the internet!
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#119Yawn, more of this silly apple snobbery. Yes, honey crisp is a good apple, but red delicious is also fine. The difference in taste between table/dessert apples is mostly personal preference. Get over yourselves, you are not better than the many people who prefer red delicious, and your palette is not more refined. I've met apple farmers who rather like red delicious, surely it's not because the poor wretches just don't have access to the other kinds, or know nothing about apples.
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#120Per other commenters, Granny Smith gets downranked for being a mediocre apple for eating plain in-hand, but it's great for using in salads. We have a Granny Smith apple tree and we dry all the apples in a dehydrator and it makes the best apple chips.