What's your favorite kind of apple?

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Mine's Fuji. I also like Braeburn and Gala. I just had a Pink Lady, and it wasn't bad, but a little tart.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 25 July 2003 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Braeburn for eating out of hand, Granny Smith for cooking with. I could get many more kinds of apples when I lived in New England, which is one of the only things I miss. But luckily those two are pretty easily found.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 25 July 2003 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I like the Pink Lady apples (but yes, I know what you mean - they are a little sharp sometimes)

One of the variety of apple that I grown in my garden is the Worcester Pearmain:

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They are juicy and sweet and quite lovely.

― C J (C J), Friday, 25 July 2003 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

fuji and gala apples are delicious. and i make a mean apple crumble using granny smiths.

― Chris Radford (Chris Radford), Friday, 25 July 2003 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

plain ol macintosh

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 25 July 2003 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Fujis, baby. Red Delicious is sad mush.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 25 July 2003 16:08 (twenty-two years ago)

And Pink Ladies are fantastic -- tart and sweet just right.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 25 July 2003 16:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't like apples much unless they are cooked.

― Al Andalous, Friday, 25 July 2003 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Still Coxs I'm afraid, which is a very rockist choice but nothing can beat that tang.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 25 July 2003 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I've wanted to try one of those ever since reading Roahl Dahl's Danny, The Champion of the World, but I don't think they're grown in the States.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 25 July 2003 16:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Next you'll be telling me you don't get Bramleys to cook with.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 25 July 2003 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Braeburn for everyday eating, even though it's neglecting the traditional British apple industry, which I feel bad about. Every now and again I'll be at my parents' and they'll offer up and apple with a name like a particularly obscure pint of bitter and for a brief couple of minutes it'll be the most divine thing I've ever tasted.

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 25 July 2003 16:34 (twenty-two years ago)

We get Coxes in the States. They're terrific. Gala and Fuji and Delicious [sic] are all mush to me.

― Paul Eater (eater), Friday, 25 July 2003 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

The President's Choice brand, which is based in Canada but sold at some U.S. supermarkets, has a Cox's Orange Pippin Apple Juice that my parents used to buy. It seemed quite exotic.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 25 July 2003 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Delicious [sic]

!!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 25 July 2003 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Jaymc are you sticking up for Golden Delicious [sic]?

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 25 July 2003 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, Golden is much better than Red, that's for sure. I just found the [sic] amusing in this context.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 25 July 2003 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know about Red Delicious by Golden are the worst apple available in the UK. Granny Smiths are pretty one dimensional too. I don't know why the nice ones have to be so much more expensive.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 25 July 2003 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Granny Smiths for cooking, we seem to be pretty agreed on that. All others I've tried have turned into wholely unappetizing mush.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 25 July 2003 16:44 (twenty-two years ago)

No, not Granny Smiths for cooking. You need a cooking apple for cooking, ie. one that is too sour to eat raw.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 25 July 2003 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Nick, market economics.

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 25 July 2003 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Granny Smiths are one-dimensional, but if there are any other tart-ish apples which travel so well and handle different kinds of heat so well, I haven't heard of em.

I'm now dismayed that you can get Coxes here and I haven't! (And no Bramleys either, no.) I grew up in New Hampshire, for God's sake, apple capital of the eastern half of the country (in an orchard town, at that, where dozens of new hybrids were grown every year by one of those big agricorps, and heirloom varieties were still grown). This is a travesty of missed experience.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 25 July 2003 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

That must be a difference between British and American cooking. If you cook with an apple that's -too- sour, you have to add craploads of sugar to whatever you're making -- and end up with less apple-taste. No fun in that.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 25 July 2003 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)

The kind in a pie.

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 25 July 2003 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)

PowerBook G4.

― Sean (Sean), Friday, 25 July 2003 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Braeburn all the way!!

― Mandee, Friday, 25 July 2003 18:13 (twenty-two years ago)

There's apparently an orchard in Vermont or somewhere like that that has every apple variety known? It was mentioned by Michael Pollan in some context, but I can't find the reference now. Anyway, if anyone wants to go on a pilgrimage...

Elstars are newish and hard to find but pretty tasty. Empires are another new one that really aren't so hot.

― Paul Eater (eater), Friday, 25 July 2003 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Any love for the Jonathan? MacIntosh's better-tasting cousin with the short season.

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 25 July 2003 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Aw shit.. galas all the way.

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 25 July 2003 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)

also, Silver

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 25 July 2003 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't abide by Fujis at all. The skin tastes so dirty, and I'd rather have an Asian pear in that case.

Granny Smiths are my cuppa, cos I like my fruit sour as hell.

― Leee (Leee), Friday, 25 July 2003 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I mostly eat Royal Gala. Normally my food tastes turn out to be very lowbrow, so I expect they are rubbish.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 25 July 2003 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)

macintosh

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 July 2003 22:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Granny Smith; Rome if they're not too mushy.

― j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 25 July 2003 22:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Pippin. Jonathan. Pink Lady.

I once tried to buy an apple at a cornershop in England, but the clerk said it was a cooking apple and wouldn't let me.

― youn, Friday, 25 July 2003 23:15 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Dada, Friday, 25 July 2003 23:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Youn, did you have that 'I'm not going to cook this' look about you?

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 26 July 2003 00:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I probably looked like a homeless tourist. Or I bought it with a sandwich.

― youn, Saturday, 26 July 2003 01:10 (twenty-two years ago)

There were fruit trees at my parents' house when they bought it, including ones that grew the most delicious Spartan apples, the insides (of the apples not the trees) had faint pink veins (well that sounds ew but these apples were wonderful.) ANYway being lazy about fruit tree maintenance and all, my father cut all the trees down!! Spartans are still my favourite, but the store ones tend to be plain-interiored and not quite as good (never are though, are they?) On a different note, my cousins went to Springvalley High School where the teams were known as the Spartans. Unfortunately the logo was a Roman dude, not the apple.

― Poppy (poppy), Saturday, 26 July 2003 03:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Crispin is the best apple, in my opinion.

― thoth (Jake Proudlock), Saturday, 26 July 2003 11:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Can someone remind me what a love apple is again? I am thinking potato but that surely cannot be right.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 26 July 2003 11:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I think it's a tomato, N.

― C J (C J), Saturday, 26 July 2003 12:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah yes, tomato.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 26 July 2003 12:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Fuji.
G4.

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 26 July 2003 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

The big yellow/greenish ones. What are those?

― Scaredy cat (Natola), Saturday, 26 July 2003 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

The Apple

― rosemary (rosemary), Saturday, 26 July 2003 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Kiwi Braeburns all the way.

PowerBook G4s.

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 27 July 2003 00:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Granny Smiths, the more sour the better. The crab apples that grew in my Grandma's back yard when I was a kid were so good - sour enough to make you wince and they were good for hucking at cars as they drove by. Galas are good, too.

― Bryan (Bryan), Sunday, 27 July 2003 01:41 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.homestarrunner.com/seriously1.jpg

― Dada, Sunday, 27 July 2003 04:00 (twenty-two years ago)

braeburn. they've become my food-obsession-of-the-week.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Sunday, 27 July 2003 04:40 (twenty-two years ago)

pink ladies

― minna (minna), Sunday, 27 July 2003 11:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't get this "red delicious = mush" stuff. I actually prefer red delicious because they're so crisp (or maybe it's just because I prefer to eat my apples before they start to go bad?), but also because they're not too sweet. I actually find Macintosh cloyingly sweet most of the time. I don't mind fuji or braeburn, and empire is also nice.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 27 July 2003 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I just had a Braeburn and it teased me by looking like a Cox's Orange Pippin but tasting of not much. Bah.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 27 July 2003 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

TS : apple crumble -vs- apple pie

(apple crumble for me, with lashings of thick creamy custard)

― C J (C J), Sunday, 27 July 2003 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

the fall russet's looks are not as deceiving as i'd hoped

― jones (actual), Saturday, 25 October 2003 21:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I prefer Fuji and Pink Lady. When I was little, the only kind of apple I'd eat was Red Delicious, so if I felt nostalgic I'd get that.

Oh yeah, and I'm a PC kinda girl.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 26 October 2003 01:27 (twenty-two years ago)

braeburns & peanut butter = i don't starve. childish eating but man oh man it keeps me ALIVE. i somehow have myself convinced that if i'm hungry and in a hurry i can whip this up and have a day's worth of energy instantly.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Sunday, 26 October 2003 01:54 (twenty-two years ago)

peasgood nonesuch=
best cooking apple.

― hellbaby (hellbaby), Sunday, 26 October 2003 08:11 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

Oh my lord, I take back what I said about Empires. I bought a load of tiny ones at the farmers' market ($0.60/pound) and I can't stop eating them!

These pippins are good too.

― Paul Eater (eater), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 04:54 (twenty-two years ago)

empire is the greatest of all apples!

― atomic horseradish (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 05:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Cox's pipins and egremont russets still rock my world.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 08:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I had a Cameo today that was fantastic. A little too sweet, maybe, but delicious.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 08:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Cookers!

― mei (mei), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 08:32 (twenty-two years ago)

my lovely 20gb ipod

― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 08:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I would have to say golden delicious at the moment. I do like braeburns (sp) though. I like eating cooking apple skin aswell.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 09:07 (twenty-two years ago)

heavily cinnamoned, the latter sounds really heavenly.

― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 09:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Golden Delicious are so flavourless, they have no sharpness to them which is the mark of a good apple in my book, sweetness with sharpness, they are not even particularly sweet.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 09:41 (twenty-two years ago)

well that's what i like, if you like something else, well good for you.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 09:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't eat a cox's orange pippin without first giving it a good rattle.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 10:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I've found the best tasting apples are organic ones whichever variety, no matter that they're funny shapes, with nobbly bits on them, they taste absolutely amazing. You realise that the standard sized sprayed apples that you'd been eating are mere shadows of the real thing.

― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 10:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, these Empires are organic. Were. The bag's all gone.

― Paul Eater (eater), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Is it too late for me to make a joke about my Cameo apple that includes the phrase "Worm Up"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I found variety called Honeycrisp that is tart and sweet (and huge, too large to eat after a meal as dessert). I've only seen them at one store, so I don't know how widespread they are, or where they come from.

― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 13 November 2003 02:31 (twenty-two years ago)

apples that have strange shapes and flaws (usually organic) are fun. the 41st apple (yes i was counting) i ate in college had this weird diamond slant to it and i even drew a picture of it so i suppose it is among my favorite kinds. personality.

― scissors (Honda), Thursday, 13 November 2003 02:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I like tart and crisp ones --> russet and macIntosh.

― Elliot (Elliot), Thursday, 13 November 2003 03:48 (twenty-two years ago)

does anybody know the name of those japanese apples which are pear shaped and with the same kind of structure as pumpkins, where they're not perfectly round, but have sections? or maybe it's a japanese pear?

― ansel (noughtme), Thursday, 13 November 2003 04:10 (twenty-two years ago)

five years pass...

After several years of buying Galas almost exclusively, I tried a couple of Jazz apples recently. They're a little much.

― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 22:19 (sixteen years ago)

Oh interesting -- they're a Gala/Braeburn hybrid.

― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 22:21 (sixteen years ago)

Granny Smith (so tart!), followed by Braeburn.

― paulhw, Wednesday, 24 June 2009 01:24 (sixteen years ago)

five months pass...

Am enjoying a Braeburn right now. Jazz apples are absurd.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 17 December 2009 20:58 (fifteen years ago)

If you can find one, pick up a Pacific Rose. Gala/Splendor hybrid, giant and pick and sweet and crisp. Everything I want in an apple, really. YMMV.

― kenan, Thursday, 17 December 2009 22:15 (fifteen years ago)

All-time favorite: Harrelson. Used to get these at an annual autumn stand on the Minnesota State Fair grounds. Haven't had them in almost twenty years ;_;

― Thulsa Doob (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 17 December 2009 22:25 (fifteen years ago)

I keep trying fancy new apples but I always go back to the Fuji; haven't found an apple that can match it's crispness and firmness, although the flavor is a little light

― 囧 (dyao), Friday, 18 December 2009 03:28 (fifteen years ago)

royal galaaaaa

― blarinet (electricsound), Friday, 18 December 2009 03:30 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

Pink Lady has the best:
-flavor
-texture
-name

― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 02:32 (fourteen years ago)

I had a Honeycrisp with lunch the other day and it was like a solid A- but I still wished I was eating a Pink Lady.

― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 02:33 (fourteen years ago)

seven years pass...

Got addicted to Envy apples this summer. Looks like they're gone from the supermarket now though. Probably due to NZ picking season or something? Oh well, it was excellent while it lasted.

― how's life, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 13:55 (seven years ago)

Can't believe I never posted to this thread! About to head into apple season here and I fully intend to go crazy and try as many as possible.

Nobody has mentioned the Ida Red yet, another favorite of mine and great for cooking.

Speaking of cooking, you want different apples for different uses: Macintosh for tart mush, Granny Smiths if you want the slices to keep their shape like in a pie. Delicious never for anything.

Will look for Empires this fall!

― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 14:03 (seven years ago)

I hope Harrelsons still exist.

― cheese is the teacher, ham is the preacher (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 14:07 (seven years ago)

McIntosh is still my favourite but UK supermarkets don't seem to have it. Which cultivar comes closest?

― pomenitul, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 15:44 (seven years ago)

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