I just can't trust any Apple Authority which claims that there exist apples worse than the dreaded Golden Delicious.
Apple Rankings
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#62I can't be the only that thought this would be Apple products' rankings
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#63This ranking seems pretty plausible to me if you're buying your apples at the supermarket. It gives good marks to varieties which maintain their texture through weeks (or months!) of refrigeration.
On the other hand, if you're at an apple orchard and deciding what to pick to eat right now, this is not the list for you. A Cortland, McIntosh, or Macoun right off the tree easily beats a Honey/Cosmic/etc crisp.
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#64Ranking apples seems ridiculous as it would be to rank wines and just promotes monocultures where we should strive to have the widest range of heritage apples with their unique tastes. Reduction to a few global breeds just leads us to a situation as with bananas where a single fungus can threaten the global banana supply.
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#65I entered II and ][, got an error. Then I realized it was for fruit.
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#66This is very US-Centric. Poland is the 3rd most apple producing country in the world (behind US and China) [1]. It has probably the highest apple per capita count and I cannot even find basic varieties that Poland offers in this search engine - Ligol, Antonówka (Antonovka) [2][3]. [1]: https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/top-apple-producing-coun... [2]: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligol [3]: https://en.wikipedia.or…
US is the default on the internet. So unless explicitly mentioned I tend to assume content is geared to a US audience.
But I did not know Poland was big in apples. Interesting. I noticed the strong regional variances in Apple availability ever since moving to Canada. I have had a very hard time finding an apple that works well for baking, as Boskoop Apples aren't a thing here.
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#67I'm all about that Honeycrisp life but I like to weave in Granny Smith & Fuji, I don't know what this guy is smoking.
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#68Scrolls 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.
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#69A lot of terrible eating apples are great for baking, Granny Smith for example. Also, red delicious _used_ to be, well, delicious. But selective breeding made them taste terrible: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Delicious Wonder if the same will happen to other popular varieties, or if apple growers know better now.
Granny Smith falls apart when baked; I prefer something that retains some toothy-ness like a Rome.
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#70The Newtown Pippin:
> This sand-filled condom from Long Island was choked down in the 1750s by the likes of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello, George Washington at Mount Vernon, and Benjamin Franklin as he declared it his favorite apple. Perhaps the Newtown Pippin was once a great apple whose quality has degraded over the centuries like the crumbling democracy the Founding Fathers established. Or perhaps, after decades of eating pigeon pie and squirrel meat, these wooden-toothed slave owners’ tastebuds are not to be trusted. Either way, in today’s world, aside from being excellent for apple cider production, the Newtown Pippin is a tasteless hunk of malformed donkey shit that should’ve been abolished during the reign of King George III