This list is garbage. Honey crisps are mediocre while Fujis are great.
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#292Wow, they like Pink Ladies better than Cosmic Crisp? Bizarre.
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#293Amazing site, but I have to disagree on a couple of them! In my area, orchards have excellent Jonathan and Winesap apples--I would never rank them that low! And I haven't tried aging Arkansas Black apples yet, but I have heard it's worth doing if you have the storage. Totally agree on Pink Lady, just a wonderful apple all around.
Yeah, I grew up a few miles from a big orchard that had amazing Jonathon apples every Fall... I still miss them. Best. Apples. Ever.
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#294Honestly - I think this list prioritizes basically just "sweetness" and "crispness" (despite his claimed categories) which is fine - those are generally appealing things for eating. That said - many of the apples in the "shit" category are fucking delicious. There are days when I want a sweet, crisp apple, and there are days I have a serious hankering for a good ol' granny smith. Even the classic Red Delicious - whic…
> Even the classic Red Delicious
You are right about the flavor profile - but Red Delicious gets its bad rap from being mealy.
Now that might be due to historical transport and storage practices during the era when Red Delicious reigned supreme, in which case it is indeed a bad rap. But for me crispness is king and I remember eating mealy red delicious apples at school lunch and hating them. I had no problems with the apples my mother bought which were all sorts of non-Red-Delicious varities.
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#295I would like to try all the apples worse than Red Delicious. I find it a bit hard to imagine something worse.
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#296There are 7,500 cultivars of apples. This list doesn't cover most of the varieties in my tiny town in upstate NY. We had a good year for Macoun for example. Many apples get a bad rep just because they don't ship well, which is bullshit.
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#297I 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 love our local farmers market during peak apple season. There are maybe 20 varieties to try across the different farms, more if you consider each farm's variant it own thing. Sadly we still have covid restrictions preventing food-tasting.
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#298Everyone in my family loves Granny Smiths, even the 4 year old. Her apple consumption greatly increases every time they're in season. The top varieties listed here are indeed good but I quickly come to find their sweetness cloying. Meanwhile I'll eat a 5 lb bag of good Granny Smiths in a week. Which brings us to another important point about apples. They have to be in season. If you get off-season Grannies from Chile…
I always peel granny smiths, so much better imo.
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#299I 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…
> The organic apple had significantly better flavor.
What are you concluding from that? You can get the same apple 1 week apart and have a significantly different experience.
Or you could get the same apple at the same time from different batches and have a significant difference.
Or you could get two apples from the same batch at the same time and they could vary a lot.
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#300Gosh I'm already eating Honeycrisp apples and they're just like, pretty good I guess. Doesn't look like there's a lot of headroom. Maybe I just like the idea of apples more than apples themselves.