Egremont Russetby a mile.
I haven’t seen a Honeycrisp in Australia (given I haven’t been looking until now). Royal Galas, followed by Red Delicious for me.
The Granny Smith is probably why I wasted years not eating apples.
Whatever the variety, best out of the fridge.
Good Lord, I have never even heard of many of these apples. I live in the Midwest and the only ones I tend to see are red delicious, golden delicious and grannysmiths.
Now I want to try some of these!
I tried honey crisp apples recently. They have good flavor, but there is something about the crunch that is not right, almost artificially crunchy. And I have bought them more than once, from different stores. I didn’t find them to be extra sweet either. A good apple though, just not what I expected, given the gushing here.
Northern Spy!
We get ours from the u-pick orchard. In fact, I’m going there today for Winesaps. The orchard has Honeycrisp too, but on Honeycrisp weekend you have to show up early. If you get there after about 10 am on Saturday all the trees are picked bare.
McIntosh. I like the smooth texture.
Honeycrisp and Jona Gold!!! Awesomeness
No love for Jonathans yet. I picked a big bag at a local orchard a couple years ago (no U-pick in the area this year, sniff) and they were awfully awfully good. It’s a sweet, pretty, crunchy apple, they might simply be overlooked in favor of Honeycrisps.
Honeycrisp. I only discovered them last year. Mmm.
No, they should be tart. There was a noticeable difference in the (cheaper) granny smiths that I bought at the supermarket and the (more expensive) ones that I bought at the gourmet grocers.
My Mom made the best apple pies, but she would only make them with Northern Spies. (Got to be a (clean) limerick in there somewhere)
I like Granny Smiths to eat as I like tart, rather than sweet.
Here in the rural midwest, it is hard to find other varieties! Sometimes I miss the New York and New England and Canada.
I have no doubt that there are apples of differing quality, but I think you need to look up the definition of “tart”.
Apple and pear season in the PNW. Honeycrisp is my current fave, but I like Jazz, Pink Lady, Fuji and most others. I’ve had too many bad red delicious in my life and won’t even try one now. I also like Asian pears, which are an apple-like pear with a mild flavor.
Wait, the trees survived? I now want to raid the place once a year. Then send a fat envelope of money to the Dixon family. Those truly are the best apples ever.
Suncrisp and Winesap. I just picked a bunch of Winesaps at the same place as MsWhatsIt, but sadly, we did not run into one another there.
Possibly because I think every person in central Ohio was at that orchard today. People around here do love their apples.
The very best apple I ever had was an Eve apple from New Zealand, early in their season. One of the most blah apples I ever tasted was an Eve apple too late in their season.
I love Cortland at this time of the year, and they keep fairly well. Russets come next. Honeycrisp apples are my forth choice; perhaps because they were so hyped up I expected more flavour. They are nice, crisp, fresh-tasting, but that’s about it for me.
Honeycrisps are a rare treat for me, but they’re my favorites too.
Honeycrisp is the best one that is easily available. Braeburn are also good. Granny Smith.
At our local farmers market, a guy had apples that were a cross between honeycrisp and jonathan, I think it was, and they were the best apple I have ever had. Hands down. But I haven’t seen them anywhere else, and he hasn’t had them this year.
I prefer tart apples but can handle sweeter. What I will not tolerate is anything resembling softness, or god forbid, mushiness. I also hate apple pie. Apples should be raw and crisp, or if necessary pureed into applesauce. None of this mushy cooked apple chunk business.