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I've tried lots of wild apples, apples from trees with consumable apples grafted on to them etc. Some of them make crab apples taste sweet. Most apples are prob
by grawprog 7y ago
I've tried lots of wild apples, apples from trees with consumable apples grafted on to them etc. Some of them make crab apples taste sweet. Most apples are probably about as sour as lemons and fairly tiny, from grape to small plumb size. They make your belly hurt and generally aren't that pleasant to eat.
They're great for making pie or jam or such things. Homemade Apple crumble(crisp, I dunno whatever same shit...both good) is probably one of the best things next to homemade strawberry rhubarb pie, but either way, they're a far cry even from Granny Smith apples which, I enjoy, but as far as I know, most people use for baking.
- Ericson2314 7y agoI think the best majority of those heirloom apples were for cider.
- maxerickson 7y agoGranny Smith apples are popular for eating out of hand. In North America, unkept apples are feral. There's a fair chance they are descendants of trees planted at a homestead. The wild ancestor is from central Asia: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/5/apples-of-eden-saving-the-wild-ancestor-of-modern-apples/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/5/apples-of-ede...
- stormdennis 7y agoI always found granny Smith to be a bit too firm. I prefer a sweeter apple with a softer crunch say like Pink Lady.
- Nux 7y agoResearcher's name is Newton, how fitting :)
- Larrikin 7y agoI'm not the biggest fan but they aren't terrible. My rule of thumb is that if an apple variety has the word delicious in the name, there's s guarantee it will be mealy and disgusting
- slfnflctd 7y agoGolden Delicious were my favorite variety as a kid/teen in the early 90s, and they never seemed to have the problems you describe back then. Very crisp, with just the right amount of sweet and juicy. I started noticing them going downhill probably in the late 90s or 00s-- I think something went sideways with their cultivation &/or supply chain. Similar thing happened with Red Delicious, I can occasionally still find a good one but they're usually inedible.
- jacobush 7y agoWow, that matches my experience - but I thought I had just developed a more refined taste. Golden and Red are almost and completely inedible to me, respectively.
- maxerickson 7y agoThey do this horror show where they pick them green and then store them for too long, after which they ripen them with ethylene gas and sell them. I think it happened to Fuji and Gala sometime in the last 5 years. Honeycrisp still doesn't have the volume, so it goes to market without the horror show and is thus still crisp and delightful.