/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.5843844]

>tfw honeycrisp apples are in season
:D
the crispy skin, the sweet, soft and crispy apple flesh. On my god, they're the best apples ever <3

[Anonymous No.5843903]

>>5843844
fuji's are the best so you can leave

[Anonymous No.5843905]

>>5843903

[Anonymous No.5843985]

NPR had a piece about apples just recently you might be interested in. Mostly about a guy growing a bunch of heirloom apples

[Anonymous No.5844011]

>>5843903
Baby's first apple. Besides, everyone knows that Pink Lady is the best apple.

[Anonymous No.5844015]

>>5844011
this

[Anonymous No.5844016]

>>5843903

[Anonymous No.5844019]

>not granny smith
fuggin gheybois

[Anonymous No.5844020]

One year my mom bought a whole crate of honeycrisps and we just kept them in our garage. It was the best fall ever.

[Anonymous No.5844026]

>>5843844

I'm partial to red delicious because they are cheap, but yea honeycrisp are teh bomb.

[Anonymous No.5844037]

>not grapples
...

[Anonymous No.5844040]

I like red delicious. Funny thing is everyone is disliking them. They were developed to look really good and red, but that didn't include flavor. So, they are most times picked too green because they look ripe weeks before they are ready. So, most of the ones in the stores are underripe and don't taste as good.

However, I grow my own and I'm patient. So, I wait until they are ripe. And, I love them for their crisp flesh too. Oh, and because their skins are so red, they have more antioxidents. And the skin is something people don't like to eat either. But, I love them.

Oh, and apples from the store suck because you have to scrub off the bitter tasting fungicide and dye embedded food waxes before eating them. Screw that.

[Anonymous No.5844055]

>>5844040
Yeah apples are one of the only things I bother buying organic, just because the skin tastes so awful

[Anonymous No.5844071]

>>5844055
There us no way you can taste pesticide on a store bought apple.
No
Way.

[Anonymous No.5844084]

>>5844071
You're kidding right? Same thing happens with oranges. If I don't wash them and the skin touches my lips and tongue while eating them it tastes bitter as hell and I start getting an allergic reaction. This happened for years until I realized I could just wash them really well and scrub them and not have a problem at all.

Now, I just fucking skip shit from the store and eat homegrown.

[Anonymous No.5844121]

apples suck

[Anonymous No.5844146]

>>5844011
Pink Lady is good. Jonagold too.

[Anonymous No.5844159]

My neighbors have a Honeycrisp tree, Iike to raid. My 30 year old Golden Delicious AND Red Delicious trees just died this year....so bummed.

[Anonymous No.5844167]

>>5844040
I do like picking a red delicious and shining that bitch up.

[Anonymous No.5844225]

>>5844084
There is no way an apple with enough pesticide that you can taste it, ever makes it to the supermarket.

[Anonymous No.5844265]

>>5844040
>scrub off the bitter tasting fungicide and dye embedded food waxes before eating them

Speaking off, I did scrape a small gala apple with a razer and went around the entire thing and this pile of waxyness was the result. I've been using a scratchpad on all my apples for some time now and I feel sorry for those who don't.

[Anonymous No.5844270]

>>5844265
Yeah, I was using a plastic pot scrubber with a little water and a little soap to clean store bought stuff like that. Then I rinsed it off for a good bit so there'd be no soap. After that, the skins are just fine and I don't get weird mouth-nose-throat allergic reactions to it. It makes everything itch like mad. Having the insides of your ears itch is the worst.

[Anonymous No.5844291]

>muh pesticides
such faggots

[Anonymous No.5844301]

>>5844265
I'm not allowed to eat it with the skin! I'm not allowed!

[Anonymous No.5844303]

>>5844265
that's the apples own natural wax

[Anonymous No.5844318]

>>5844303
Sure thing mr shill, i believe you.

[Anonymous No.5844326]

>>5844318
>shill
you're buying the apple regardless retard,why the hell would anyone need to shill?

[Anonymous No.5844333]

>>5844303
>that's the apples own natural wax
That's what all the published literature says. That's how we know you're part of the apple wax conspiracy.

[Anonymous No.5844340]

>>5844333
foiled again

[Anonymous No.5844378]

>>5844333
>>5844303
Actually, companies wash off the original natural wax and replace it with "fruit wax":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_waxing

Fruit waxing is the process of covering fruits (and in some cases vegetables) with artificial waxing material. Natural wax is removed first, usually by washing. Waxing materials may be either natural or petroleum-based.

The primary reasons for waxing are to prevent water loss (making up for the removal in washing of the natural waxes in fruits that have them, particularly citrus but also, for example, apples[1]) and thus retard shrinkage and spoilage, and to improve appearance.[2] Dyes may be added to further enhance appearance,[3] and sometimes fungicides.[4] Fruits were waxed to cause fermentation as early as the 12th or the 13th century; commercial producers began waxing citrus to extend shelf life in the 1920s and 1930s. Aesthetics—consumer preference for shiny fruit—has since become the main reason.[1][4] In addition to fruit, some vegetables can usefully be waxed, such as cassava;[5] vegetables commonly waxed include cucumbers, swedes or rutabagas and green tomatoes.[6] A distinction may be made between storage wax, pack-out wax (for immediate sale) and high-shine wax (for optimum attractiveness).[7]

The waxing materials used depend to some extent on regulations in the country of production and/or export; both natural waxes (sugar-cane, carnauba, shellac, or resin)[3] or petroleum-based waxes (usually proprietary formulae)[2] are used. Wax may be applied in a volatile petroleum-based solvent but is now more commonly applied via a water-based emulsion.[4] Blended paraffin waxes applied as an oil or paste are often used on vegetables.[7] Brand names for waxes include Tal-Prolong, Semper-fresh, Frutox, Waxol, Fruit and vegetable kleen and Decco Luter.[8]

[Anonymous No.5844385]

>>5844326
I don't. I stopped buying them and started growing my own. I had over 2,000lbs of apples last year.

>have so much fucking applesauce and apple butter now that i haven't even looked a my trees this year

[Anonymous No.5844637]

I like Spartans. Not sure if its primarily a local type but good gods they are tasty.

[Anonymous No.5844647]

They're probably my favorite apples, or at least in the top 3. They aren't in season yet here but they cost $4/lb when they are so it doesn't matter anyway.

[Anonymous No.5844691]

>>5843844

Honey Crisps are certainly the best for just picking up and eating, but I dislike cooking with them.

Red Delicious is objectively shit tier though.

[Anonymous No.5844694]

macintosh 4 lyfe

[Anonymous No.5844699]

>>5843844
>not pink lady
get fucked

[Fluttermom No.5844711]

>>5844011
mah nigga

[Anonymous No.5844741]

>>5843844

Kiku is best.

[Anonymous No.5844845]

>>5843985

How are heirloom apples at all related to honeycrisps?
Honeycrisps are like engineered super apples. Hell there was even a patent on them until 2008.

>tfw your university made honeycrisps and the cafeteria still served shit-tier mushy reds

[Anonymous No.5844860]

>>5844019
Mah nigga. Many people think these are only good for baking. They're all insane.

[Anonymous No.5845043]

Pink Lady are high tier. Honeycrisp are overrated. Cameo are underrated.

[Anonymous No.5845124]

>>5844694
Still the best apple, period. Also makes fantastic pies.

[Anonymous No.5845134]

>Tfw living in NY
>Tfw its fall
>Tfw Gala, Honeycrisp, and Pink Ladys are all in season for less than 1.50 a pound,
Red Delicious a shit, McIntosh a shit, Grannys a shit, and them yellow bastards are a shit.

[Anonymous No.5845138]

>>5845134
>Tfw you live in Ny and Un-pasturised apple cider is harder to get than fucking moonshine or drugs

[Anonymous No.5845198]

>>5845134
No one actually likes Red Delicious, do they? It's all mealy and pale-tasting.

[Anonymous No.5845311]

>>5843903
honeycrisp extreme power gap galas = granny>fuji


extreme power gap
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[Anonymous No.5845316]

>>5844037
go fuck yourself for mentioning this abomination

[Anonymous No.5845318]

>>5845134
golden delicious are meh tier agreed