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Post by RussianCow »

nerdkid93 wrote: post #288
ricardobeat wrote: post #214

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You might want to reconsider that, at least for homemade pre-made juice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RA3AaCO7A8

I love Super Juice! If I'm going to have friends over for a get together or party, I'll make a batch (or multiple if I want more than 1 fruit) a few days ahead of time to increase the speed in which drinks can be made. The downside is that garnishes still generally tend to need peels, so I still need to have a couple real fruits hanging around.

For garnishes, unless expressing the oil of a citrus peel is essential to the aroma of your cocktail (like in a Negroni), my "hack" has been to dehydrate citrus wheels as garnish. You can get ~2-3 wheels out of the middle of every citrus fruit and use the rest for super juice. Plus, they look really cool.

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Post by colordrops »

wheats wrote: post #404
chefandy wrote: post #345

Anybody who'd give the two top slots to sweet tango and honeycrisp -- the proprietary, designed-by committee apples that prioritize inoffensive, bland appeal over character-- doesn't deserve an opinion on this topic. It's like ranking a bazillion craft beers and giving the #1 slot to Blue Moon and the #2 slot to Sam Adams. They're the Applebee's and Olive Garden of Apples. Also, the descriptions show that the majorit…

OK let's go, give us your top 3 favs.

My favorite are these narrow cylindrical green apples that grown in my mom's backyard. They are tart but not as tart as granny Smith, very chewy, and have a bit of bitterness and a strong tannin flavor. Beats everything else by a mile. No idea what they are called though.

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Post by fergie »

3 observations:

1) Granny Smith apples are quite nice.

2) Generally you should be suspicious of "good" fruits as these are the varieties that have been the most intensively bred/engineered and grown.

3) This list is so incomplete- where are all the Scandinavian apples?!?

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Post by tigerlily »

> Apple Rankings by The Appleist Brian Frange

Well Brian, if you're reading this, then know that at this present juncture I fear your taste is quite awful. You are contributing to the infantilisation of flavour preferences by ranking such sweet varieties so highly. I bid you humble yourself by exploring some real vintage apples for a year, and report back advocating for those. Then book a trip to Wales and work in the cider and perry orchards. Then climb a high mountain. Then you must go to Kazakhstan and try all the OG varieties there, eating them from the ground like the bears that did so since time immemorial. Then when you are forty seven years old, you must sell all your possessions and buy a big field to be in for a while before planting there an orchard and rearing young bears. Then you must retail those apples from a roadside packing shed for forty years. Only after you have done at least one of these things may you write about apples on the internet.

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Post by tigerlily »

wheats wrote: post #404
chefandy wrote: post #345

Anybody who'd give the two top slots to sweet tango and honeycrisp -- the proprietary, designed-by committee apples that prioritize inoffensive, bland appeal over character-- doesn't deserve an opinion on this topic. It's like ranking a bazillion craft beers and giving the #1 slot to Blue Moon and the #2 slot to Sam Adams. They're the Applebee's and Olive Garden of Apples. Also, the descriptions show that the majorit…

OK let's go, give us your top 3 favs.

FWIW Cox Orange, Belle de Boskoop, and Sturmer. Honorable mention goes to Southern Snap.

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Post by blowski »

janj wrote: post #210
blowski wrote: post #2

What, no Russets?! And Pink Lady are all sugar and no flavour.

I tried them [Russets] once years ago and was blown away, haven't seen them since but I've been looking.

They're pretty common in the SE of England, where I live.

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Post by thomasfl »

tigerlily wrote: post #455

> Apple Rankings by The Appleist Brian Frange Well Brian, if you're reading this, then know that at this present juncture I fear your taste is quite awful. You are contributing to the infantilisation of flavour preferences by ranking such sweet varieties so highly. I bid you humble yourself by exploring some real vintage apples for a year, and report back advocating for those. Then book a trip to Wales and work in th…

Thank you Tiger Lily for your insight into the world of apples.
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