/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>19324186
Oh my holy frigging gosh

>>19324186
do they?

>>19324212
Yes. Go buy some and tell me they don't.

>>19324216
maybe I will, nigger

Am I missing something by just sticking to Jonagolds from my local store? They're juicy, crisp and their sour/sweet ratio is exactly how it should be. Any point in looking for something even better?

What do cox taste like?

>>19324186
those frickin fricks

you gotta go with pink lady, jazz, or roil gala. and of course granny smith.

skip the red delicious and fuji.

and if you're in north america you should pretty much only be eating mcintosh or cortland. and of course granny smith.

>>19324247
can I get a QRD on this granny smith character?

>>19324236
ass

>>19324247
Wait people actually eat granny smith? I thought they were just a backup for cooking when you can't find bramleys.

>>19324251
It's a baking apple, you don't eat them raw.

>>19324251
anon all I know is I make apple pies and apple crisp and it's fine with mcintosh or cortland apples, but if you can't get those you pick something else PLUS granny smith, and it comes out similar. granny smith is an apple you can't go without.

>>19324256
>>19324259
you definitely can eat them raw; very nice sliced thin with cheese, in salads, or with pænut butter.

it isn't exactly a juicy munching apple like a mcintosh though

>people think granny smith are cooking apples
wat

>>19324290
It's sorta like using cheshire as a replacement for feta; obviously not the same but sort of works in a pinch.

>>19324186
realest question, anons.
is it "ape-rih-cot", or "app-rih-cot"?

Why would you pick anything else?

>>19324186
I only buy Fujis. Bonus points if they were grown locally.

>>19324186
Take the cosmic crisp pill they are almost never soft and have a good taste kind of like pears

>>19324464
neither, it's "rape-rih-cot"

>>19325872
>Red Delicious
>"belligerently disgusting"
LOST

>>19325872
i don't like these

>>19329471
out of supermarket options, they're my first choice

>>19325872
they're not the best for baking-purposes but they are S-tier otherwise, I agree

>>19324186
I do like the ubiquitous Red Delicious on a hot day. It lets me forget everything as I sit in the shade, enjoying an ordinary apple. The other varieties leave me soiled in my trousers.

>>19328097
This. Cosmic Crisp is a hybrid of Honeycrisp and tastes virtually the same, but it has been bred specifically to hold up better during storage and transport. Honeycrisp are great if you can get them fresh from a farmer's market or something, but Cosmic Crisps are just more consistently good year round. Where I buy my Cosmic Crisps they are a full dollar cheaper that Honeycrisps per pound.

>>19325872
that shitter gave granny smith 57, fuck him and his bone spurs

What the fuck happened to my honeycrisps?
They still cost $3.50 a pound but taste VILE AND ROTTEN.
What the hell is going on????
Is this a seasonal thing?

>>19330127
I've noticed the same thing. Apples are often stored in warehouses for 9-12 months, and on average the apples you actually purchase at the grocery store are 14 months from the harvest date. They are stored under very specific atmospheric conditions that effectively stops the apples from ripening any further, but they can still lose moisture and flavor leading to a mushy, bland tasting apple. Some varieties are more resilient to long term storage. I would assume due to the popularity of Honeycrisps, the production is very high, leading to more of them spending longer times in storage. Just buy Cosmic Crisps, they are virtually the same thing, but bred for better storage life.

>>19324224
They just don't taste very apple-y.
Try a winesap sometime.

>>19325872
Honeycrisp a shit.
Apples for people who don't like apples.
Apples for people who want to eat candy instead of apples.
Fuck you for even making me think about it.

what is the best apple

>>19330207
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malus_sieversii

>>19330207
Depends on your criteria, but as an all around apple for many purposes I'd say the Gravenstein is a solid contender. Good for eating, good for baking, good for juicing, and good for fermenting into cider.

For me it's Pink Lady

>>19330207
Pippin
Empire
Winesap
Mcintosh
Golden Delicious
Cortland
Braeburn

These are some of the apples that apple-lovers seek out that have deeper and more unique flavors and texture that aren't just sweet-tart.

Red delicious are the ONLY apples. Everything else is a heathen abomination.

>>19324224
mcintosh the real OG

>>19324251
best "sour-sweet" apple if you can't find a decent set of baking apples, also acceptable for snacking (tart, crunchy, juicy but not wet).

>>19324186
some pistachios taste like almost, its just the miracle of life

>>19325872
they're alright if you want a candy in the guise of a fruit. not terribly complex, just mostly sweet and wet.

>>19324186
>eating anything from Japan

>>19329471
I don't care for the supermarket ones myself, just as I don't care for unripe pears.

>>19330207
depends. winesap and kansas black are pretty good, though i personally prefer mcintosh over pretty much anything else. granny smith decent for baking. don't have enough experience with other varieties for cider, though i'd imagine a nice, dry, sour-sweet or bitter-sour apple would be best for that purpose. i really, really like crabapples though, and for all intents and purposes, they're the best in my book.

>>19330624
do you enjoy eating gravel as well? maybe potting soil?

>>19330624
>tfw growed up in MA with mintosh orchards in all directions
>freshly picked mcintoshes every september
there is absolutely nothing like it

>>19325872
>doesn't even have northern spy ranked
RETARD ALERT

>>19324217
>>19330193
>the apples you actually purchase at the grocery store are 14 months from the harvest date
Are you telling me that an apple didnt go rotten in over a year

>>19332381
Yes, it's called controlled atmosphere storage. They also treat them with a special gas that controls the rate of ripening by blocking the apples ability to detect ethylene which is the chemical that causes ripening, and is naturally present in the apples.

https://extension.umd.edu/resource/controlled-atmosphere-storage-apples

>>19331357
VT anon here, yeah grew up on the same. mcintosh are some of the best apples out there

Fuji apples are so mealy and dry, basically a flavorless pear. There’s a reason they’re usually the cheapest per lb.