# Sugary, tart, firm, crisp, juice filled apples that crunch when you bite them.. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 11, 2007, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugary-tart-firm-crisp-juice-filled-apples-that-crunch-when-you-bite-them/418840 "2007-09-11T22:56:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ryobserver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@ryobserver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryobserver)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2007, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugary-tart-firm-crisp-juice-filled-apples-that-crunch-when-you-bite-them/418840/21 "2007-09-12T23:25:25Z")
The Honeycrisps were at my neighborhood farm market last Saturday; I have some on hand right now. Also some Macintoshes. Not many; I was more interested in the peaches, which seem to be having a good long season this year. My alltime favorite apple is a pure Winesap (not Stayman Winesap, though they aren’t bad, but the purebred). Delicious. They’re thin-skinned and bruise easily, though, which makes them repugnant to wholesalers and hard to find even at farmers’ markets. ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2007, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugary-tart-firm-crisp-juice-filled-apples-that-crunch-when-you-bite-them/418840/22 "2007-09-13T02:09:34Z")
[QUOTE=Tapiotar] My current favs are Crispins and Honeycrisps, and Macouns, along with Cortlands and Rome Beauties… ummmmm, New York apples… [/QUOTE] Ummmmm, indeed. You can’t swing a dead cat in NY and not hit an orchard. My favorite are the Macintosh apples, which have the perfect mix of sweet and tart. I always look forward to the apple festivals at the various orchards. Apple pie, cider, pumpkin patches and cider donuts ::drool:: ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2007, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugary-tart-firm-crisp-juice-filled-apples-that-crunch-when-you-bite-them/418840/23 "2007-09-13T02:11:12Z")
Macintosh are one of the early ones, so you should have them now. ---
**Author:** ![jkirkman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac8455/32.png) [@jkirkman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jkirkman)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2007, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugary-tart-firm-crisp-juice-filled-apples-that-crunch-when-you-bite-them/418840/24 "2007-09-13T02:25:28Z")
Ahhhh! Dang Yankees. Down here in the sweaty south, where you needed oxygen to make it through my daughter’s soccer practice tonight, it will still be 6-8 weeks before nice fall stuff like tasty fall apples. OTOH, we’ll have nice spring days and flowers in early March. And I don’t own or know what a snow shovel looks like. Man, I could still do with a crisp fall day in September. Or October… ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2007, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugary-tart-firm-crisp-juice-filled-apples-that-crunch-when-you-bite-them/418840/25 "2007-09-13T05:09:04Z")
[Gravensteins](http://www.slowfoodusa.org/ark/gravenstein.html) are the big deal here. And I totally understand why. They are just perfectly delicious apples. Sweet, tart, crisp… Yum! ---
**Author:** ![Labelless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f19dbf/32.png) [@Labelless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labelless)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2007, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugary-tart-firm-crisp-juice-filled-apples-that-crunch-when-you-bite-them/418840/26 "2007-09-13T10:52:44Z")
[QUOTE=ryobserver] The Honeycrisps were at my neighborhood farm market last Saturday; I have some on hand right now. Also some Macintoshes. Not many; I was more interested in the peaches, which seem to be having a good long season this year. My alltime favorite apple is a pure Winesap (not Stayman Winesap, though they aren’t bad, but the purebred). Delicious. They’re thin-skinned and bruise easily, though, which makes them repugnant to wholesalers and hard to find even at farmers’ markets. [/QUOTE] I would love to try a purebred Winesap! The Stayman’s don’t travel well either, thus I have to have travelers get them for me. I’ll have to see if they can get me a purebred this year. **psycat90** You are right about the Gravenstein’s, those are wonderful apples as well. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2007, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugary-tart-firm-crisp-juice-filled-apples-that-crunch-when-you-bite-them/418840/27 "2007-09-26T16:07:23Z")
I’m disappointed in that I can’t find a Jonathan apple for sale. They don’t grow Fuji locally either. I checked out how big the last of the McIntosh on the tree were. they have a diameter of 3.5 inches. That’s big and it’s only the last hanger-ons that got this big. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2007, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugary-tart-firm-crisp-juice-filled-apples-that-crunch-when-you-bite-them/418840/28 "2007-09-26T16:30:30Z")
I checked our local orchard and they told me that they can’t open their store this season because of the severe drought in this area. It ruined their peaches a few months ago and the apples, too, could not grow, so no local apples for us this year ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Labelless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f19dbf/32.png) [@Labelless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labelless)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugary-tart-firm-crisp-juice-filled-apples-that-crunch-when-you-bite-them/418840/29 "2007-09-27T01:41:22Z")
[QUOTE=Harmonious Discord] I’m disappointed in that I can’t find a Jonathan apple for sale. They don’t grow Fuji locally either. I checked out how big the last of the McIntosh on the tree were. they have a diameter of 3.5 inches. That’s big and it’s only the last hanger-ons that got this big. [/QUOTE] I bought a peck at the local farmer’s market Saturday and made some pies from Jonathan apples! (I believe I saw some Fuji, but I was in a hurry.) Here in two weeks I’ll have such a selection I won’t know what to choose. I think I’ll peel up a few of those Jonathan’s now and have a snack. I’ll also have to pull out my chart and see how well they store, this batch was very good, and would make for great holiday pie. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugary-tart-firm-crisp-juice-filled-apples-that-crunch-when-you-bite-them/418840/30 "2007-09-27T02:17:23Z")
Cortland are firmer and tart, so they’re good for pies and caramel apples. I like the tart apples contrasting with the caramel. I wanted Jonathon apples for eating raw. ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugary-tart-firm-crisp-juice-filled-apples-that-crunch-when-you-bite-them/418840/31 "2007-09-27T02:48:21Z")
I just spotted Honey Crisps for the first time in my area today. Yay! They’re my favorite apple. The rest of the year, I mostly eat Pink Lady apples or occasionally Fujis, but we don’t get a whole lot of varieties. I’ve never seen Winesaps. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugary-tart-firm-crisp-juice-filled-apples-that-crunch-when-you-bite-them/418840.md?page=1)