"Horse food"?! To arms, my fellow Fuji Apple stans! This heresy is casus belli.
Yeah that's crazy. Not all fuji apples are good, but a good fuji is IMO basically as good as a good honeycrisp, and much cheaper.
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#172Granny Smith is severely underrated here. This site is like hipster-tier ratings of vinyl with a bunch of obscure stuff nobody ever heard of to try and appear more sophisticated.
I wanted to say the same thing: the Granny Smith slander is uncalled for.
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#173Disappointed to see my favourite Apple ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_de_Boskoop ) missing...
Yes, came here to complain about exactly that one! Outrage! :D
Also James Grieve, and Cox's Orange are great.
Personally I stopped touching any supermarket apples, they're all bland. I have a market in front of my house and my parents have trees in the garden, and there's nothing better.
Really speaks to what we're losing as a result of industrialized agriculture. Not saying it's not worth it in order to feed billions, that point can be made, but still...
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#174I 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…
I remember going to one of the local markets and asked the guy putting out the apples if the organic apples were really worth it. He immediately pulled out an organic apple (fuji if I recall correctly) and the same type, but non-organic. He cut out a slice of each apple and let me taste it. The organic apple had significantly better flavor. He explained that the drawback was that the organic apples would go bad quick…
Anecdotally, I find this to be the case with many fruits, especially citrus. I always figured that a lemon is a lemon and a lime is a lime, but after getting into cocktails and mixology, I realized that there is a night-and-day difference between high-quality fruit and the cheap stuff at your discount grocery store. This doesn't mean organic fruit is always strictly better, but I have found it to be a pretty reliable proxy for quality.
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#175Missing my favourite apple: Aurora. This is the best apple by far. Last long, taste is amazing (though maybe a bit too sweet after a while). I can't rarely find them. Does anyone know how to track down where apples are grown?
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#176Miss apple orchards like this one with fresh cider.
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#177Now this is the kind of important tech/nerd info that I come to HN for! 10/10 Notes: 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…
I think Golden Delicious can be delicious but they have to be just right. Red are the absolute worst, though.
Agree. I think they underrate Cartland and Jonagold but maybe it’s because I am a New Yorker. I think Honeycrips is OK but not stellar.
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#178Cosmic Crisp is not overhyped. I think it’s noticeably better than Honey Crisp :\
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#180Too bad they don’t have Topaz. It would obviously rank at the top.