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.
They have really high standards in general for fruit in Japan.
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#152Oh man, I liked a Cameo apple so much the other year that I kept the seeds to grow something at least remotely similar. Right now the tree is standing a good 8ft tall, and I expect it to yield some fruit next fall. Only time will tell if it's only a 50/100 apple, or a great one like I remember. Actually, looking at the comments ( https://applerankings.com/cameo-apple-review/ ), I'm not the only one who thinks they're…
FYI, apples don't grow true from seed. The apples you get (if any) from your tree will likely be nothing at all like the apple they came from.
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#153Disappointed to see my favourite Apple ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_de_Boskoop ) missing...
Also Elstar is missing, that would be my everyday goto apple
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#154Now 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…
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#155This blatant Fuji disrespect has not gone unnoticed. Honeycrisp is ranked second and Fuji is down at the bottom despite HC being a slightly crispier but way more expensive Fuji?! How DARE you.
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#156He ranks McIntosh poorly (the mind boggles, though I will admit that sometimes the skin can be a little tough) while ranking some of the most vile, cloying varieties rather highly. A palette spoiled by high fructose corn syrup? That would be one charitable guess for some of these rankings. Also, different apples have different culinary uses. I am also sad to see the limited number of cultivars. The world doesn't begi…
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#157The annoying thing about this website is I can't find anywhere that lists the apples by rank, in any of their 12 categories. A ranking website should, y'know, rank things.
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#158what about for baking (and other uses)?
baking an apple pie the apples need different characteristics than apples that taste sweet when you eat them.
Also, I was at a farmer's market and they had other characteristics like "baking, snacking, salads, freezes well" and more I can't remember.
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#159"The definitive list of good and bad apples." Definitive, eh? Qualifiers like this are amusing, as they're generally self-proclaimed. However, having a domain like applerankings.com, as well as a comprehensive, in-depth and entertaining library of apple reviews, definitely helps make the case. What other heuristics have you seen out there that help make a self-proclaimed "definitive source" become an indisputable one…
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#160I 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 quickly so you should only buy what you need, and eat them promptly.