Honey Crisps are just too sweet for me, so this list doesn't work for me. Next version: personal recommendations. If you like X, then these apples are better on these axes!
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#222Apparently Opal Apples taste like an unwiped anus… Never seen one to have tried myself - can anyone confirm?
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#224He's got Granny Smith in the shit category, and this just reminds me of a funny story about dogs! We had two corgis and my wife made all their meals by hand. Part of their diet was apples, but we found one of the corgis would almost always eat around the apple (usually just a cheap red apple) pieces and leave them for the other dog. Then one time Granny Smith apples were cheaper at the grocery store so that is what w…
My dog seems to prefer apples based purely on their crispiness.
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#225Scrolls 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.
Red Delicious is the sort of apple that a kid finds at their grandparents place, takes one bite and returns it to the fruit bowl.
The flavorless, hard apple you'd find in a school lunch. I remember chucking these into the trash in elementary school in the late 80s and early 90s, where it would land alongside dozens of other "thick-skinned, flavorless, mealy imposters."
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#226It was my understanding from lockdown that the UK had millions of apples frozen, and would essentially just cycle through - in other words every apple came from farm to freezer to shop.
I may have misunderstood
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#227McIntosh are my favorite and in the shit category. So, you peel it, no big deal.
Honestly, I don't think I can trust anything else on the site because of this review, unless it's completely meant to be some sort of joke...
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#228Just this week I ordered for my orchard of weird little apples: Almata, Arkansas Black, Hudson’s Golden Gem, Keepsake, Northern Spy, Pipsqueak, Ribston Pippin, Roxbury Russet, St. Edmund’s Russet, Trailman, Wickson The only one this site had was Arkansas Black, which is very mild right off the tree but sweetens in storage. They hated it. I wonder if they ate it off the tree.
Northern Spy is a fantastic apple. I can't remember what they taste like whole, but they make great cider, and they mature super late so you can have fresh cider right up into winter. Most of our cider producers switch to spy in late autumn and that is when the cider tastes the best.
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#229They are severely underrating cosmic crisp imo. It’s got all the flavor of the best honey crisp you’ve ever had with an unbelievably slow browning rate. You can cut one up and leave it out for hours and it’s still not brown.
My only beef with them is that they are too big. One cosmic is practically 2 meals.
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#230To me the source of the apple matters a lot more than the breed itself. Put another way: there is a high variance in the quality of apples independent of the breed. The absolute best apples I've ever had were pick-ur-own at a well-regarded apple orchard in Connecticut. I believe they are McIntosh although it could also be macoun. Every apple is crisp (not mealy), sweet and tart, with a thin skin and lots of flesh. Th…
+1000, Macouns from Rogers Orchards in Southington CT are the BEST apples on the planet