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Autumn Glory apples are the absolute best apples I've ever had. I love it so much more than other apples, but I can't find them anywhere this year! The fact that this site ranks them so low means I can't trust any rankings from it.
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I’ll come to the defense of Arkansas Blacks. They are definitely better than Red Delicious. They’re just really hard and quite tart with a faint green flesh. Red Delicious are mealy and tasteless. I love the Arkansas Blacks, but they wouldn’t be everyone’s cup of tea.
I love Arkansas Blacks! They have a hint of cardamom aftertaste, which makes them unique!
I immediately went to look up the Cosmic Crisp, which was a research endeavor from Washington State University. It is an excellent apple for eating. I'm at a loss to understand these rankings, as the reviewer claims that the Cosmic Crisp has a thin skin and less-than-average flavor. This is completely the opposite of my experience - the Cosmic blows away every other eating apple on the market, including the Gala. It…
Where do you live? The Cosmic Crisps that make it here to New York (almost certainly out of season), end up having not much flavor. They're still edible though (waaaaaay better than garbage like red delicious), one great thing about the Cosmic Crisp is that they actually store well.
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Where do you live? The Cosmic Crisps that make it here to New York (almost certainly out of season), end up having not much flavor. They're still edible though (waaaaaay better than garbage like red delicious), one great thing about the Cosmic Crisp is that they actually store well.
Eastern Washington - so it’s very local crop. As you well know, you have lots of Apple production in New York and if I were there, I’d presumably look for local varieties too. Good to know they don’t ship well, appreciate the insight
Low rated Cripps Pink and high rated Pink Lady? Isn’t it the same cultivar, just Pink Lady is trademarked?
I 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…
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I've had red deliciouses direct from the farmstand and they're mealy. They really are just bad.
Nothing says delicious like having to put that in the name, right? Actually powerful people don’t go around saying how powerful and important they are. They don’t need to.
The best apple I ever had was a Fuji apple… in Japan. It's never that crisp in the US. I don't know why they rank Cosmic Crisp so low. I rank it neck and neck with SweeTango.
I will have them all day if only they weren't so expensive.