Fortunately, the beginning of fall also marks the start of apple season. Grocery stores keep bins of apples stocked, and apple orchards send people away with bags weighed down with hand-picked fruit. To prevent you from inadvertently biting into a tart Granny Smith when you wanted something sweet, or baking with a Red Delicious which is best eaten raw, this guide provides you with a handy key to tasting notes, texture, color, and cooking and baking suggestions for a dozen of the most popular apple varieties.
Unlike McIntosh, Cortland are multi-purpose: You can eat them raw, baked, or cooked. For other crab apple ideas , you can also pickle and juice them. One of the most beloved apples in the country, Fuji apples range in color, from orange to yellow to red. Fuji apples were originally cultivated in Japan before arriving in America in the s.
Unlike the consistent, vibrant red of a Red Delicious, no two Gala apples look quite the same. Gala apples have a reliable, mild sweetness and a crisp bite, and their thin skin makes them ideal for a fresh-eating apple. With bright yellow skin, they feature a silky texture and a very sweet flavor. Bake into pies, toss slices into salads, and cook down into sauces. They taste best shortly after purchased because the thin skin is easily bruised.
Although bright green Granny Smith apples are quite tart and crisp, cooking with these apples actually makes them sweeter, and they pair well with savory and salty foods. Similar to Macoun and Gala apples, Honeycrisp are sweet and crisp. With a red exterior and pale white interior, their crisp texture will stay firm when baked or caramelized.
Macoun apples are a cross between a McIntosh and a Jersey Black. Since then I am usually very disappointed in the taste; it seems very bland and sometimes almost sour. I now purchase Fuji almost exclusively. Less flavor than Gold Delicious. It has some crunch, and it has some water, but not a lot of taste, just a bland kind of sweetness like if you put a little sugar - not a lot - on a cucumber. Great apple; pick it early it's great.
Pick it a bit late, still great. Far superior to most cold hardy apples. Flavor is not consistent. Some very good, some disappointing. Price is too high for chancy purchase. Pretty good apple. Doesn't have thick skin and the sweetness levels are well balanced. If you're looking for a good tasting basic apple, honeycrisp is the way to go. This apple is very good but there's wax on it and my friend is allergic to this wax and I wish he could enjoy this apple with me.
This is why I gave it a 4 out of 5. Planted this tree in in an area that remains relatively damp all year. I removed all immature fruit in the first two seasons to favour root growth. The tree produced a lot of blossom this year and has been untroubled by pests. We have picked some 20 perfect apples, which all of my family and my friends say are the best they have ever tasted.
They are sweet, crisp and the juice sort of explodes into your mouth as you chew. Children can't get enough of them. What a find. Get one if you can. Poor choice to grow at home: easily stunted by overbearing at a young age; youngest leaves cannot release sugars to the rest of the tree and become yellow and sickly looking, fruit hit hard by bitter pit and excavated by earwigs. One things good: it keeps shape baked, although it is very light in flavor that way.
So good. Always the best. Why are there even other options. I like Honeycrisp apples when they taste right, but often I find that they have a bitter flavour.
My husband can't taste that bitterness. Have others experienced this? I was first turned onto the Honeycrisp apple by a friend who sent one to me from Iowa to California, where I lived at the time. It was Crisp and juicy and sweet and just the best apple I ever had.
Then suddenly they started showing up in our store in California but I was very disappointed in the flavor I think they may have been grown somewhere else other than the Midwest. Now I live in Iowa and I buy the honeycrisp apples here and they are definitely different than the honeycrisp apples I had in California. The Midwest honeycrisp apples are extremely crisp sweet and juicy.
Chilled they're just amazing! I've given this apple several tries after hearing all the hype. Time and again, I've been disappointed. While they do have a great crunch, the flavor is sour and bland every time I eat it! Not sure if it's where they're grown, when they're picked or how they're stored but I just cannot believe the following this apple has. I much prefer a flavorful, sweet, tart, and tangy apple so Granny Smiths and Pink Ladies are currently my favorites.
Most apples sold in supermarkets today seem to be pretty but bland also so I've decided to grow my own. Been eating apples since early 70s grew up in Minnesota. Unmistakeable, and never experienced that note in a HC or any other apple before. We are west of Edmonton Alberta, with a 3 year old tree. My absolute favorite apple after I discovered it at a fruit stand in Palisade, CO. I love that you can get them in the grocery store! Sadly, they aren't available in the UK, and Jazz apples are a poor replacement.
Addicted to Honeycrisp! One of my favorite days of the year is the day they first arrive at the local market. Best of the best - they spoil it for the rest This is by far my favorite apple.
Crisp, great flavor and very juicy. I won't eat any other variety. Originally I would buy Red Delicious and have maybe two a week. I now eat a Honey Crisp every night before bed!
Outstanding Taste, Texture, Firmness, and a wonderful after taste that stays sweet long after I've finished! Being diabetic, I find it very satisfying and I know it has yet to affect my blood readings in the slightest! When was the last time you had an apple? Was it yesterday? The day before? Are you eating one right now? Because I am. This apple hasn't changed my life, but I feel like if my life needed a change, it would have.
HoneyCrisp 4 life. It had 3 apples last year but they got ugly and pitted then rotted. This year there is ONE apple. It's huge and no bugs. Problem is I don't know the perfect time to pick it. It's beginning to change color and it will be in the 90's next week. I think I will open the bag and smell it.
Any other ideas? I LOVE? I started eating regular apples that my grocery store carried that we're already cut up. I came upon some Honeycrisp and that's when I was hooked on them. Don't thing I will eat another apples, but Honeycrisp. I eat 12 small apples a day at work and home. Does anyone know if this too many apples in a day? Is there any sodium in these, if so I will have to cut back. As for Honeycrisp, they're excellent. I consider them quite remarkable, as the flavor combined with the Granny Smith-like crunch is a quite remarkable combination.
Certainly a very pretty apple. Very crisp, crunchy indeed, but perhaps even a bit hard? Taste is clean, sweet, very mildly fragrant, but unremarkable. It was by far the best apple I had ever tasted in my 24 years.
A co-worker of mine had recently discovered them at a produce market near her home and wanted me to try one. Fast forward 5 years and I introduced them to my husband.
I have ruined all other apples for him. He will only eat honey crisp and they are currently not available in our area. I called around and they are expected within the next 2 weeks. I guess the kids and I will be eating gala until then! I shop with a local fruit vendor who tells me apples are stored for a year before they even get sold. I am interested to learn more about that process.
I thought I have to try these to see why. Well oh my, what an outstanding apple. Now our local orchard grows them and they are more reasonable. When we are out of honey crisp apples and I serve my DH an apple he says "this is not a honey crisp. We were on a cruise and stopped in the port of Seattle. There is a big market there and I saw some honey crisp apples. Well I bought one and there was no comparison to the ones grown in the Midwest. A few more weeks I can go to our local orchard to get my honey crisp.
High price--but when picked appropriately time They were hands down the most extrordinary apples I have ever tasted--intensely sweet and tangy, spicy, complex flavor; crisp and juicy.
They were huge, bigger than grapefruit and tasty all the way to the core. I could only get them for a few weeks each summer and I looked forward to it eagerly! What a disappointment when the commercially grown apples labeled Honeycrisp came to market. Are they even the same variety? At best, the commercially grown specimens hint at the sublime, zesty flavor of gorgeous apples from the lovingly tended Michigan orchard, but they miss the mark by a wide gap.
As someone who lives in Minnesota, the Honeycrisp that you get from an orchard are great. However, picking them up in a grocery store, they sometimes come from Washington or some other moderate climate. Make sure you are getting the good ones from Minnesota, Michigan or upstate New York. The apples from other areas are ok, but don't pay the premium price to pick them up. However, we have tasted honey crisp from other parts of the U.
The honey crisp was developed by the U of MN for cold climates. The tree needs a cold upper midwest winter to create a good-tasting apple. Sweet, crunchy, and a hint of tartness, make this the best apple I've tried yet. We also dried all the apples and once again, Honeycrisp came out on top in blind taste testing. Sadly it's the most expensive at the market, but worth it. I find this apple disappointingly flavourless, though crisp and juicy.
Other trees I have and prefer include Cox's Orange Pippin. I wonder if the problem is the mild coastal climate - would Honey Crisp be better in colder areas? I was raised in Upstate NY, which is apple country. Many orchards with fresh apples. If you try this apple, be sure it is fresh. The normal supermarket apples can not do this apple justice.
They are great for applesauce, eating, juicing, or baking. They are crisp and firm. If you got some that weren't, then you got it from a poor orchard, or chain supermarket crop. They are sweet and tart and juicy. This apple makes the others seem bland and insignificant but each to his own.
I have a small orchard and 6 Honeycrispt trees and they grow and produce every year just fine. The trees have more and stronger limbs than others.
They may not grow as fast in height but grow outwards making them nice and bushy looking. Nothing but good to say about the fruit itself. Tastes great and stores well. They are quite sweet but they don't seem to store well.
Sometimes it's hit or miss for them depending on how watery they are. The one I had literally tasted like sweetened perfume water. It was very crisp and juicy, but it wasn't very sweet, and not tart whatsoever. It was nothing like what I expected from an apple.
It was more floral than fruity. Do they all taste like this? I do highly recommend others that haven't tried one to pick one up at a local store. This apple is in my top ten favorite fruits. Try it for yourself!! My favourite apple is Honeycrisp, and we planted a tree in our backyard 5 years ago. It started bearing fruit immediately the following summer. Early crops were decimated by worms? Not wanting to spray I started bagging the fruit at the size of a quarter with nylons. I now get about 2 dozen good fruit per year from our tree.
I can not stand a mushy apple and I never found a mushy applecrisp mushy either.
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