Once upon a time the Red Delicious was just that, red and delicious, but no more. This short explains how a perfectly fine apple was ruined and what’s being done to keep new varieties tasty. Watch
David Bedford’s latest cultivar won’t be available for sale this year since there are only four trees in the world producing “Triumph” apples. The article goes on to explain where you might find Triumphs or other trees suited for the northern climate producing sweet and tangy apples. Here
Just add alcohol.
Appletini
AppleRita
Apple Pucker
Sour Apple Schnapps…
Red delicious are mushy and tasteless.
I prefer
Gala
Fuji
Honeycrisp
Ambrosia
Anonymous: And Pink Lady
I like Granny Smith’s. Bitter and tart just like my women.
I stopped getting red obnoxious a long time ago. There are a number of different apples that are crisp and have flavor. Jazz is another fairly new variety that I enjoy.
Red delicious were developed for mass production in the northwest. Yuck.
Get golden delicious. They were created by nature.
I have one in my yard. A tree ripened golden delicious is like tasting heaven.
I live in the south of south ontario canada. I ride my smokey two stroke dirt bike through the swampy back woods onto flat lands with old apple trees that bare nice sweet yet sour fruits that are poop making machines and I love them. Braapp in more ways than one.
I’ve always been a suspicious of any sort of fruit/veggie that has been hybridized so thoroughly. Seems like the first thing to go is flavor and/or texture. Canada, for example, (of all places) manufactures “hot house” tomatoes that look absolutely beautiful and have zero flavor!
I discovered Jazz a few years ago and they have become my absolute favorite for eating. Crisp, not too thick a skin, sweet, but a bit sour, unlike honey crisp which I find just too sweet.
Best for baking pies – Northern Spy. They don’t turn into applesauce in your crust.
AbigailAdams OCTOBER 29, 2021 AT 8:38 PM:Oh my. Cant clutch pearls I’ll just clutched my comically thin chest hairs,sorry I am a Canadian.where I am from there are a lot of green houses that grow tomatoes. probably the crap sent out. Most people grow their? there? or what ever own.Onions and asparagus are grown here. Those crops are raided so often farmers hire security. Imagine getting shot for stealing asparagus.
The Golden Delicious in stores are no good either.
My parents had a Golden Delicious tree in the back yard, it produced for 10-12 years and they were the most flavorful apples I have ever tasted. She often made an apple crisp, just sliced apples and a topping of oats/brown sugar.
Huron — I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to offend. I was thinking (and not elborating) about the latitude. Here in WA we barely have enough hot weather in summer to harvest many tomatoes. Hot houses are a poor substitute for a ripe, transportable tomatoe.
…or tomato 🙂
All good AbigalAdams I don’t know you personally but I know you from here and my beliefe is you are salt of the earth and the world could gain from more of of your kind. Thank you.
I have a McIntosh, looking to plant a second one soon. Due to the heat (extreme for north Utah) and a water problem I had, this year’s crop was nil and null. Hopefully better next year.
Honeycrisps were the bestby far years ago once walmart started selling them it is difficult to find good ones
Sweet tango, ambrosia and if you can find them lemonade apples are the best.
In my neck of the woods, NorCal, right up the hill we have APPLE HILL. Regionally famous. It’s a traffic jam every week end up the hill during season. They’ve fought to keep their Orchards free from mutated shit. Best tasting apples you’ll ever eat. Several different varieties. Best Apple Fritters on the Planet.
I never did like Red Delicious. For years my Apple of choice was the golden. Recently I’ve come to love Gala. I mean like really love them. I could probably eat a bushel all by myself.
My Great-Grandparent’s kept a 2 acre orchard of fruit tree’s… Gravenstein’s were for baking, various oddball red’ish apples for eating. The weirdest apple was called a “Seek-No-More”, and we only had a graft-cultivar of it. They grew to be bigger than softball’s. We had to build 2×4 T’s to hold the branches up through summer. They weren’t very good for eating directly, and on account of size, nobody could finish one… They made great pies, and chopped up and mixed with miracle whip, decent apple salad…
Sadly, all the old timer’s in NorCal have passed on, and the Hippie’s descendants don’t keep the black bear population under control. Result: My great-grandparent’s orchard is no more… 🙁
Kali Refugee in Texas
Read my above post. Were your parents near Camino?
Brad,
More than 100 miles away from there. The Seek-No-More is a real oddball. The origin of the cultivar my great-grandparent’s grafted is almost certainly gone. I visited it once as a child in the 1970’s. Literally a lone apple tree next to a collapsed 1850’s homestead. My Grandfather wanted one more cutting to graft and try and keep it around.
KR
Jiminy cricket Kali, my grandma would say seeknumore(as in one word)talking about apples when I was young. She made great pies. Trees were heavy with huge apples.
We have 3 McIntosh trees that produce delicious apples. There are 3 orchards near us where you can pick your own. The best are Northern Spy, Lodi, Braeburn, Snow and Gala. They haven’t been hybridized to cardboard.
“apple pie without cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze” my Mom
Sweet 16 for pie and crisps.
Best apples I ever had are from Oak Glen, CA.
Not very big, but tart and juicy.
They squeeze the juice out of the apples on an old press, and the cider is pure ambrosia.
Right about now is the time to go, and worth the trip.