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A red delicious is an excellent apple - if you have it ripe off the tree. My parents have an older tree (20+ years) and a ripe apple from that is, quite frankl
by GioM 9y ago
A red delicious is an excellent apple - if you have it ripe off the tree. My parents have an older tree (20+ years) and a ripe apple from that is, quite frankly, amazing. Sweet, but not overly so. Crunchy, slight mineral flavour adding depth. Really nice.
The problem comes when they're picked early and left to ripen off-tree or they're picked too late. Either way they become a mealy mess after a few days. However, in this condition, it still looks great and the dark colour disguises any obvious bruising. This is probably why it's so prevalent in retail chains.
- bonzini 9y agoIt's not that common in Europe. In Italy, which has some of the biggest apple orchards, the cheap variety is the Golden Delicious or the Royal Gala. By the way, the mechanics of the organization behind those orchards are insane. It's an organization of thousands of farmers from the same valley (val di Non), with agronomists that decide when to harvest depending on the altitude and the variety. Apples brought a lot of wealth and infrastructure, since the valley roads had to be updated for the tricks. The organization even bought an old mine to have a 10 km tunnel at constant temperature in which to store apples.