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HONEY CRISP is ruling my world right now. They're a bit expensive but also juicy and incredibly flavorful. I didn't realize I could LOVE apples like i do the Honey Crisp.

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Honey Crisp is the new sensation in the apple world, a large, sweet apple with crisp "to-die-for" texture! Believed to be an offspring of Macoun and Honey Gold, Honey Crisp was introduced in 1991 by the University of Minnesota breeders at Excelsior, MN. Both its parents were noted for having excellent flavor, moderate sized fruit, and "ok" texture. Honey Crisp's flavor is perhaps not as dramatic as Macoun at its peak, but is first rate. The Kicker in Honey Crisp is its crisp texture -- no other apple matches its crispness.

― deej.., Sunday, 2 October 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

Fuji is the only way I roll.

― Stuck to a Seat in the New Beverly (Bent Over at the Arclight), Sunday, 2 October 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

macintosh

― luna (luna.c), Sunday, 2 October 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

lovin' the galas and cortlands.

― faith popcorn (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 2 October 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

empire, too.

― faith popcorn (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 2 October 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

Galas for snacks, granny smith for tuna salad/fruit salad.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 2 October 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

another for snaky galas

― huell howser (chaki), Sunday, 2 October 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

granny smith all the way. crisp-tart burst of flavor!

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Sunday, 2 October 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

For eating, the sour ones and NEVER Delicious. For pies, I'm in a quandry: I can't get Ida Reds or Northern Spies in NYC -- what else works? A few Macs are good but too wet in bulk, I need a drier apple that doesn't bake down to mush.

― Laurel, Sunday, 2 October 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

EMPIRES mmmmmm. braeburns too.

i always get sucked in by the rustic surliness of russets but they're never as delicious as ugly fruit ought to be.

― jones (actual), Sunday, 2 October 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

gala is where it's at, braeburn being a close second.

― stewart downes (sdownes), Sunday, 2 October 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

Fuji, Gala, Mac, Granny Smith in that order. Tried Pink Lady awhile back, sotra like a Gala I guess, anybody else seen 'em around?

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 2 October 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

braeburns YES

― faith popcorn (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 2 October 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

pippin, granny smith, jonathan, pink lady

Macintosh apples seem to be popular on the East Coast. I bought a couple today. I'll report back later.

Gala apples have a delicate flavor but can easily become too mushy.

The sugar in Fuji apples can get out of control.

― youn, Sunday, 2 October 2005 22:21 (twenty years ago)

A lot of the flavor has been bred out of apples to get a better shipping product. Apples are just generically sweet now, not very appley. Sometimes they taste a lot like generic white seedless grapes to me.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 2 October 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

Up until a couple weeks ago I never bothered with fruit at all, now I try to have an apple every afternoon, but I've only tried Red Delicious. How do true apple connaisseurs rate this variety?

― Stan Fields (Stan Fields), Sunday, 2 October 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

ok i bought some honeycrisps. lets see how this goes.

― huell howser (chaki), Sunday, 2 October 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

macoun, fuji. Macouns have to be fresh. Fujis, like Braeburns and Galas, store forever without going mushy, but they do lose quality. A fresh Fuji is so winey and good.
MacIntosh practically have to be eaten off the tree, they turn to brown mush so quickly.
Macoun must be a more durable offspring.
Golden Delicious off the tree are amazing. One day later it's all lost.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Sunday, 2 October 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

I was at a farmer's market in Sebastopol one weekend when Gravensteins happened to be in season. So fragile they don't even leave Sonoma County, from what they tell me. Yum yum.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 2 October 2005 22:32 (twenty years ago)

The honey crisp = golden delicious + godly texture, increased juiciness.

― deej.., Sunday, 2 October 2005 22:32 (twenty years ago)

I have no idea what the names of apples are, but I like the soft, sweet ones that sometimes come out half red, half yellowy-green, like the poison apple in Snow White. They are tasty and exciting.

― Maria (Maria), Sunday, 2 October 2005 22:34 (twenty years ago)

Pink Ladies, the bigger the better. And cold out of the fridge also.

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Sunday, 2 October 2005 22:37 (twenty years ago)

I have no idea what the names of apples are, but I like the soft, sweet ones that sometimes come out half red, half yellowy-green, like the poison apple in Snow White. They are tasty and exciting.
That could be either of the Macs.
Anyone seen any Winesaps lately?

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Sunday, 2 October 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

Maria, you are exactly right!! I ALWAYS think of the poison apple when I see those short, fat country apples with the green + red sides! I dislike Delicious, both Red and Yellow, for their horrible mealy insipid sweetness, yes, but also for their aristocratic pulled-up figures. Give me an apple with its chin around its waist, please.

― Laurel, Sunday, 2 October 2005 22:40 (twenty years ago)

Can't beat a good coxes. Phnoar.

― chap who would dare to thwart the revolution (chap), Sunday, 2 October 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

I used to clean house for a woman who kept a big wooden bowl full of shellacked-looking red delicious apples on a side-table. No one ever ate one. She kept them around until they smelled like compost, then threw them out and bought new.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Sunday, 2 October 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

i thought everybody hated pink ladies. there was a thread about it and people were saying it was the kool-aid of the apple world.

― faith popcorn (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 2 October 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

Give me an apple with its chin around its waist, please.

yeah, i love the little round ones that look like crab apples.

― faith popcorn (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 2 October 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

red delicious always look like they're fake or covered in wax or something. their perfection from the outside is intimidating.

― deej.., Sunday, 2 October 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)

What's your favorite kind of apple?
Pink Lady apples
Apples vs. Oranges: FITE!
Why is it Perfectly Acceptable to Mock Apples in Stereo?
pink lady apples
Why is it Perfectly Acceptable to Mock Apples in pie?
apples in stereo

― huell howser (chaki), Sunday, 2 October 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

Liberty is a named variety that look a little like the hard, misshapen apples from untended trees.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Sunday, 2 October 2005 23:15 (twenty years ago)

Did I rave about the Esopus Spitzenburg on that other apple thread? One bite of a good E.S. makes me weep at the beauty of Creation.

― Paul Eater (eater), Monday, 3 October 2005 00:00 (twenty years ago)

pink lady or royal gala are the only apples allowed to inhabit my fruitbowl

― gem (trisk), Monday, 3 October 2005 00:02 (twenty years ago)

Only one mention of honeycrisp in that thread:
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 (nickn62...), November 13th, 2003.

― deej.., Monday, 3 October 2005 01:11 (twenty years ago)

Granny Smith. WHy of why do they not have a sexier name though?

― salexander (salexander), Monday, 3 October 2005 05:48 (twenty years ago)

i *think* royal gala are the ones i like best

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Monday, 3 October 2005 05:51 (twenty years ago)

(they have a nice tight crunch to them)

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Monday, 3 October 2005 05:51 (twenty years ago)

I used to be all about the Granny Smith - the tarter the better (can someone reccomend some even tarter apples? like cooking apples?) - but now I've also fallen under the sway of the Pink Lady.

I like my apples firm. That's what I dislike about the Golden Delicious - it's flesh is too slimey/melty.

― Paranoid Spice (kate), Monday, 3 October 2005 07:51 (twenty years ago)

I usually don't get all bent out of shape when people start threads about topics that have already been covered, but I'm sad because the original was one of my first successful ILE threads! (No offense, deej!)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 October 2005 08:15 (twenty years ago)

i really liked the Apple II

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 3 October 2005 08:35 (twenty years ago)

although there really should be a different thread for "APPLES (computers) - what are your favourites"

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 3 October 2005 08:35 (twenty years ago)

Hmmm I prefer IBMs though. Is this weird? I always thought "Apple" was a dumb trademark. They are a gastronomic product, NOT a computer.

― salexander (salexander), Monday, 3 October 2005 10:34 (twenty years ago)

Gala, Braeburn, and small Pink Ladies. Everyone raves about Cox's for apple sauce in the UK, but I found the bubbly, thin consistency weird. Give me some lumps, please.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 3 October 2005 12:31 (twenty years ago)

Macintosh, Macoun, Ida Red, Cortland
for pies - Greening

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 3 October 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

i just discovered courtland apples whilst on a picking spree in indiana. why hadn't i heard of these before?!?

from here:
The Courtland Apple was developed at the New York Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva in 1898. It is related to the MacIntosh and is sweeter with juicy, snow white flesh. It is a large apple with a flush of crimson against a pale yellow background sprinkled with short, dark red stripes and gray-green dots. Courtlands are excellent for eating out of hand, salads, sauce, pies and baking.

"juicy, snow white flesh" indeed!

― my name is john. i reside in chicago. (frankE), Monday, 3 October 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

I used to love Granny Smiths, but the last few times I've tried them they're been dense and hard and not very juicy.
One of my big apple peeves is the way the apples in store-bought apple pie are often crunchy. Ick. If I want crunchy apples I eat 'em raw.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 3 October 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

Sorry jaymc! I wanted an excuse to talk about honey crisps and it seemed like a better idea than just making a thread about honey crisps.

― deej.., Monday, 3 October 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

Macintosh apples are crisp and not too sweet. They're very good.

― youn, Monday, 3 October 2005 22:54 (twenty years ago)

fuji or grimes golden

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 3 October 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

What I said about this subject almost two years ago:

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 (deethe_downspamdown_lurke...), October 25th, 2003 8:27 PM.

Oh, and I found out that there's a store here in town that sells amazing Golden Delicious apples. The peels are still soft (which is why Mom prefers them -- she says every other apple out there has peels that hurt her mouth), but they're also very crisp, and juicy too. And yes, I'm all about the sweetness. Granny Smiths are perfect for baking and nothing more in my world.

― This Field Left Blank (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 00:27 (twenty years ago)

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braeburns are the epitome of an apple bred for transport rather than flavour.

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 18 November 2006 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

Gala an honey crisp are pretty poor too, no bite to them, no acidity to balance out the sweetness.

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 18 November 2006 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

go away.

― lsd sky chefs (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 18 November 2006 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

no russets, no credibility

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 18 November 2006 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

Northern Spy, because of the name.

― def zep (calstars), Saturday, 18 November 2006 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

granny smith whut whut

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 18 November 2006 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

ten months pass...

mmm this braeburn is the fucking bomb.

― strgn, Saturday, 29 September 2007 20:12 (eighteen years ago)

three years pass...

Believe it or not, my research found that while it may look fresh, the average apple you see in the supermarket is actually 14 months old.

― Whiney G. Blutfarten (dayo), Sunday, 18 September 2011 17:10 (fourteen years ago)

Commercially, apples can be stored for some months in controlled-atmosphere chambers to delay ethylene-induced onset of ripening. The apples are commonly stored in chambers with higher concentrations of carbon dioxide with high air filtration. This prevents ethylene concentrations from rising to higher amounts and preventing ripening from moving too quickly. Ripening continues when the fruit is removed.[35] For home storage, most varieties of apple can be held for approximately two weeks when kept at the coolest part of the refrigerator (i.e. below 5 °C). Some types, including the Granny Smith and Fuji, can be stored up to a year without significant degrade.[36][37]

― Whiney G. Blutfarten (dayo), Sunday, 18 September 2011 17:11 (fourteen years ago)

JAZZ

― corey, Sunday, 18 September 2011 17:13 (fourteen years ago)

some very good apple varieties will keep for months with no or minimal refrigeration

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 19 September 2011 10:28 (fourteen years ago)

is that cause of the wax

― Whiney G. Blutfarten (dayo), Monday, 19 September 2011 10:32 (fourteen years ago)

Some apples like Cox's Pippins improve in the barrel, and shouldn't be eaten too soon after picking.

― Fizzles the Chimp (GamalielRatsey), Monday, 19 September 2011 10:33 (fourteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

oh man I just had a 'Jonathan' that had reddish flesh. I didn't know apples could come that way!

― dayo, Saturday, 8 October 2011 15:43 (fourteen years ago)

arkansas black apples are one of my favorites, but they're really hard to get:

http://web.mac.com/stone0579/iWeb/piaandco/Blog/0027BB4C-86B9-4371-803C-C379E0F414BB_files/apple.jpg

― similar to "dinobear" (remy bean), Saturday, 8 October 2011 16:04 (fourteen years ago)

These new fuckin' apples from the University of Minnesota are incredible.

― per metal injection (Eazy), Saturday, 8 October 2011 16:58 (fourteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

no russets, no credibility
― Ed (dali), Saturday, November 18, 2006 10:48 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark

got a bag of egremont russets from m&s and they are dope fyi

― just sayin, Monday, 24 October 2011 16:29 (fourteen years ago)

honey crisps rock my world

they are very well named imho

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, 24 October 2011 16:35 (fourteen years ago)

The parentage of modern apple varieties is often obscure because they are the result of lengthy breeding programmes with cross after cross, although the original parentage is generally known - often Golden Delicious or one of its offspring. However in the case of Honeycrisp the original parentage posted by the developers at the University of Minnesota appears to have been wrong !

! excitement in the apple world

― just sayin, Monday, 24 October 2011 16:38 (fourteen years ago)

I have stopped eating any other apples. If it's not a Honeycrisp, it's not worth the effort (unless you're making pie).

― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 24 October 2011 16:41 (fourteen years ago)

ten months pass...

Sunrise!

― Bryan, Monday, 17 September 2012 20:14 (thirteen years ago)

I recently discovered that the Cripps Pink makes a very good substitute when Honeycrisps are not available or are too crazy expensive.

― Dan I., Monday, 17 September 2012 20:35 (thirteen years ago)

Super down with Galas atm, which are a lot tastier than I'd been lead to believe. Pink Lady def my jam come apple season

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 17 September 2012 20:38 (thirteen years ago)

seven months pass...

some cool apple adventures happenin here

― P is for Poo Poo Doo Doo (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 27 April 2013 21:01 (twelve years ago)

article talks about apple tree grafting/breeding and then offers up a definition of 'hipster': "A steady conga line of homesteading hipsters—Henry David Thoreau meets Johnny Depp—paraded up to Bunk..."

1 part HDT + 1 part JD. Of course!

really did enjoy reading about the global optimization of the apple output through tree grafting, however. kinda wish trees grew absurdly fast so I could take thousands of random seeds and settle on my own apple varietal by maximizing extreme visual traits. just walking 'round town, munching on my polka-dotted apple nbd

― P is for Poo Poo Doo Doo (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 27 April 2013 21:12 (twelve years ago)

can somebody explain this to me http://www.grapplefruits.com/

― 乒乓, Monday, 29 April 2013 01:16 (twelve years ago)

apples waterboarded with grape juice, at least that's what it looks like

yeeeeeeeesh

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 April 2013 01:19 (twelve years ago)

jesus.

― the gentrification of chill (Pat Finn), Monday, 29 April 2013 01:20 (twelve years ago)

i have been eating empires lately. they're very good but seem to go bad quickly

― 'scuse me while i make the sky cum (k3vin k.), Monday, 29 April 2013 01:22 (twelve years ago)

pink ladies on the way out - end of the season ones are way too sweet

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 April 2013 01:24 (twelve years ago)

http://www.fgimenez.com/wp/wp-content/imagenes/apple-logo.thumbnail.gif

― markers, Monday, 29 April 2013 01:25 (twelve years ago)

Take a bite of an apple, but do not swallow. Now empty the contents of an unfrozen grape fla-vor-ice into your mouth. And give up.

― P is for Poo Poo Doo Doo (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 29 April 2013 01:29 (twelve years ago)

do you have a gif of taylor swift smiling broadly with her mouth slightly opened as she is about to take a bite out of an apple?

― the gentrification of chill (Pat Finn), Monday, 29 April 2013 01:29 (twelve years ago)

xpost obv

― the gentrification of chill (Pat Finn), Monday, 29 April 2013 01:29 (twelve years ago)

do you have a gif of taylor swift smiling broadly with her mouth slightly opened as she is about to take a bite out of a human head?

― P is for Poo Poo Doo Doo (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 29 April 2013 01:31 (twelve years ago)

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnkm1750Lj1qafrh6.gif

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 April 2013 01:34 (twelve years ago)

Don't be sorry. This thread is about apples.

― P is for Poo Poo Doo Doo (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 29 April 2013 01:35 (twelve years ago)

The Gravensteins I lucked into were the best ever, but the best I've had around here were some Arkansas Blacks that showed up at a local nursery one fall. Ugly things, gnarly and thick-skinned, but really delicious.

― WilliamC, Monday, 29 April 2013 01:40 (twelve years ago)

You all live exotic apple lives that I can only dream about. I drove up to buelton to pick apples. The "orchard" was about 1 acre. Michigan apple picking pwns Southern California apple picking so far

― P is for Poo Poo Doo Doo (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 29 April 2013 01:43 (twelve years ago)

http://obamapacman.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Taylor-Swift-in-bed-with-Apple-MacBook-Pro-laptop.png

― markers, Monday, 29 April 2013 02:09 (twelve years ago)

ah fuck that

― markers, Monday, 29 April 2013 02:10 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/R8U4YCp.png

― markers, Monday, 29 April 2013 02:10 (twelve years ago)

Apples are disgusting.

- dell

― dell (del), Monday, 29 April 2013 02:11 (twelve years ago)

i could really use a solution to the Apple Pie Problem which is that normal grocery stores do not carry any good cooking apples, especially off-season

― ciderpress, Monday, 29 April 2013 13:13 (twelve years ago)

six months pass...

apples are crisp, and juicy

how weird is that

what else is crisp and juicy?

― j., Thursday, 14 November 2013 05:49 (twelve years ago)

onions

― mario chalmers of ilx (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 14 November 2013 05:54 (twelve years ago)

well played, well played

― j., Thursday, 14 November 2013 06:08 (twelve years ago)

carrots kind of are

― c21m50nh3x460n, Thursday, 14 November 2013 07:16 (twelve years ago)

more watery than juicy, i would say

― j., Friday, 15 November 2013 01:42 (twelve years ago)

Does anyone eat their apples this way? I'm gonna try it later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdCGnuccRv0

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 18 November 2013 15:04 (twelve years ago)

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