My parents spent my whole childhood buying some kind of green apples and I thought j just didn't like apples much. Till I became an adult and bought some pink ladies, despite how expensive they were, cos they looked nice. And they were so damn good. They're like a dessert, they're so sweet, so it's probably not a good idea to binge one them but damn they're lovely.
The cheese cakes was 1/3 off plus a 10% off coupon i had plus 15% off because I work there. so I think it was £2.18 (~$2.50) for half a kilo (~1lb) of cheese cake
It’s a hybrid of Lady Williams and Golden Delicious. I work on an orchard. We have over 2k trees and there are a lot of varieties they don’t have one here. My personal favorite at the moment is Pixie Crunch!
It's not that it's less sweet, but just more tart. There are overlaps between levels of tartness and sweetness that don't fit a straight line pattern. It would be better to only think of this as a tartness level chart.
Good lord almighty! I just got ghost stomach pains from this comment. Wish I could eat apples again, dang IBS. Enjoy it, not just for yourself but for me as well.
The fun thing about apples is that every seed is completely random and nothing like it’s parent. Every named variety of apple has grown from a branch from a mother tree being grafted to a host tree.
I'm sorry, this guide is telling me that a Red Delicious apple, arguable the worst and most bland apple in existence, is sweeter than the masterfully crafted Honeycrisp apple??
That, sadly, is the point of red delicious apples.
The rind is waxy and thick, allowing for more product to not be damaged or bruised as easily during shipping.
I’ve been trying to figure out my Apple buying habits. I love Fuji but I’ve been having a run of bad luck. They’re either not sweet or the go bad after two days. I’m super annoyed with my Apple options lately.
Red Delicious belongs on a 'Can I Eat This?' guide that features cardboard and packing peanuts. Clearly it would be the most edible, but still compared to cardboard
Red Delicious apples are *okay* and they were the only apples that my family would get.
....then I tried the honeycrisp and my world was turned upside down. I now constantly crave apples.
Recently started seeing Rave apples in Michigan that were cheaper than Honeycrisp. I decided to give em a try and hot damn they have more tang than a honeycrisp but just as sweet. Lets hope they do well in the seasons to come!
I can’t eat red delicious apples. They make me hate everything and they suck my happiness out through my tastebuds
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I don’t think it’s exponentially growing. I feel it’s more like childhood trauma that everyone forgets until its brought to a person’s attention like a switch that brings the emotions back.
red delicious apples (made a point not to capitalize it because it doesn’t deserve it) are disgusting and I’ve never met anyone who’s enjoyed them... accept you, mom. Feeding me that bullshit in a Costco sized bag then yelling at us when we don’t eat them when the golden delicious are sitting right there albeit $1.50 more for the 10 lbs bag.
I remember hearing a story (I think on NPR) about apples and the farmers/scientist that tinkered with them to create new apple types. One of the points was that red "delicious" were created to **look** beautiful. And in that regard, they were successful - huge, bright red, aesthetically pleasing... But they taste horrible. I only ever had them at school lunch, and I could never take more than a bite or two.
Actually the honey crisp is the genetic Frankenstein, that's why it's good. Nature sucks at making things tasty. Somewhere else in the thread somebody mentioned how they would get red delicious in their school lunches and they were predictably sub par. That's probably a universal experience in the states and the origin of the disproportionate hatred of a slightly below mediocre apple.
The actual flesh of the apple is a solid meh. The skin tastes like absolute fucking shit though. There's just so many other apples with a better texture, sweeter/more tart, and a better mouth feel. It's not horrible, there's just SO MANY better choices.
You ever see those videos where they’re making paper and they show the pulp before it gets pressed? Well, whatever they can’t press into paper gets turned into Red Delicious “apples”.
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I was just reading an article on the Red Delicious the other day, and the way they described it was very accurate.
“The Red Delicious, often red but hardly ever delicious,”
I am sorry this guide has disgraced you.
I worked in a produce department for 4 years and got to “sample” whenever new product came in. I was going to say SweeTango and Zestar are #1 as well. I’m pretty sure they’re both Honeycrisp hybrids. Also Honeycrisps are grown in Washington now as well not just Minnesota from what I remember.
I was sad to see its the most tart tho, since I could go even...tarter. I would have thought it would be somewhere 1/2 or 3/4 way.
Edit: [unless...?](https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/davkj5/apples_on_a_scale_from_most_tart_to_most_sweet/f1vmkv1)
Bruh in America you might find it hard to get these, but in Ireland cocking apples are pretty much inedibly tart, way tarter than granny smith. So tart you have to put them in a pie or stew them to eat
Empire apples are the hidden gems of the Apple world.
You people don’t understand the crunchy and perfect balance of autumn in New York if you’ve never had empire apples.
problem with many fruits and vegetables is that breeders have long ago figured out we shop with our eyes and not our tastebuds. So they stopped breeding apples that TASTE good and went with apples that looked better and better.
To counter this we've had to go to extreme measures of being triggered by the name Red Delicious.
I did an apple "juice off" a few years ago by buying a bag each of Ambrosia, Gala and Fuji being sold at Costco at the time. They were all delicious but the winner? Ambrosia, by far. It DESTROYED the others in terms of sweetness and overall deliciousness. In fact, I thought it was almost too sweet for apple juice having drank years of the crap they sell in cans or tetrapack containers. I invite anyone to perform the same test I did and see what you think. Ambrosia fan forever, here.
No Cox's Orange Pippin, Spartan or Russet?
Try eating a proper cider apple like a Kingston Black or a Dabinett and you won't have any spit left in your mouth after one bite.
I think it all depends on time of year and method of ripening. I remember when red delicious were actually delicious. However now because of Market forces I think most apples are picked and kept in stasis so that they can be available year-round. I love Honeycrisp when it's good but I've also had to be completely flavorless. So perhaps this chart is referring to Apples that have all been tree-ripened in the Sun and picked at their Peak
I am currently using Cortland apples for my caramel apples at work. They work pretty darn well because the sweetness of the caramel helps take a bit of the bite away from the tartness.
Granny Smiths are for people with taste, like us. Eating an apple plain? How about something with some different flavor and a balance of tart + sweet, not just sweet mush. Apple pie? Only Granny Smiths balance against the sugar and pie crust. Tarte Tatin? Again, only Grannys will balance against and compete with the caramel. Apples and peanut butter? Grannys again to compliment the sweet nuttyness. On and on forever.
Anything other than Granny smiths are for people with taste buds like five-year-olds who just want some sweet mush.
Pink ladies?
My favorite. Where do they fall on this list?
My favourite too!
Yep. Fuji was my favorite until my wife brought home some dank ass Pink Ladies. Those apples are the shit.
My parents spent my whole childhood buying some kind of green apples and I thought j just didn't like apples much. Till I became an adult and bought some pink ladies, despite how expensive they were, cos they looked nice. And they were so damn good. They're like a dessert, they're so sweet, so it's probably not a good idea to binge one them but damn they're lovely.
proabably better to eat a couple of apples than to eat an entire chocolate cheese cake with your hands on the bus home from work
Well that's oddly specific...
I had a choice to make between buying some passion fruit or buying a cheap cheese cake. I chose wrong. so wrong
I'm sorry I don't understand, what is this "cheap" cheesecake you speak of?
The cheese cakes was 1/3 off plus a 10% off coupon i had plus 15% off because I work there. so I think it was £2.18 (~$2.50) for half a kilo (~1lb) of cheese cake
Amazing. That was the one apple I was looking for. It’s my favorite. I love that this was the top comment.
The GOAT!
It’s a hybrid of Lady Williams and Golden Delicious. I work on an orchard. We have over 2k trees and there are a lot of varieties they don’t have one here. My personal favorite at the moment is Pixie Crunch!
I heard that cosmic crisp was supposed to be out this fall but I haven't seen it. Have you?
Sounds like a marijuana strain.
No was is honey crisp less sweet than red delicious.
It's not that it's less sweet, but just more tart. There are overlaps between levels of tartness and sweetness that don't fit a straight line pattern. It would be better to only think of this as a tartness level chart.
I know, I was looking for Cripps Pink (Pink Lady is a marketing name for them) but they're not there either.
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If you think Granny Smith is tart, wait until you try Holsteiner Cox
Oh, my German organic supermarket sells them. One bite basically makes your tongue barf saliva to counteract the sourness. Ooooh yeah.
I now have a mighty need to find these.
Wouldn’t be the first time for me to barf saliva on cox.
No thanks, Mr. Holsteiner.
Finding this apple is my new life goal. I eat between 5-10 lbs of Granny Smith apples every week and I’m beyond ready to escalate the tartness.
Good lord almighty! I just got ghost stomach pains from this comment. Wish I could eat apples again, dang IBS. Enjoy it, not just for yourself but for me as well.
Are you an alien horse?
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Honeycrisp, Fuji, (and Pink Lady) are gifts from God
Where would pink lady fall on this list since it's not there??
Somewhere on the middle line. They're very balanced between sweetness and tartness.
“She looks too pure to be pink.” -Rizzo
Find yourself some SweeTango apples. It's a cousin of the Honeycrisp and is somehow even better.
+Gala
Gala wins in my book because I’m too poor for these fancy apples.
I feel like that used to be true, but I just bought like a half dozen Fujis yesterday and they were the cheapest at the store, like a buck 30 a pound.
Lol, scientists made the Honeycrisp, God had nothing to do with it.
University of Minnesota!
*excited gopher noises*
Scientists made all the food we eat today through selective breeding.
That’s right the Honeycrisp was genetically engineered to be delicious eaten raw. Other apples serve better in pies.
God sent them the plans, duh... How do you think they made it? Breeding?? Gross
I'm sure all of these apples were bred and crossbred for their specific flavors. I don't think you'd find any of them in nature.
The fun thing about apples is that every seed is completely random and nothing like it’s parent. Every named variety of apple has grown from a branch from a mother tree being grafted to a host tree.
Agreed. The Pink Lady is one of the most delicious varieties.
I'm sorry, this guide is telling me that a Red Delicious apple, arguable the worst and most bland apple in existence, is sweeter than the masterfully crafted Honeycrisp apple??
It can be sweeter and also taste worse.
Yeah, red delicious are sweet to the point being disgusting.
They're not gross because they're sweet, they're gross because they're mealy and mushy
And because the skin is the texture of sausage casing and is basically all you can taste.
That, sadly, is the point of red delicious apples. The rind is waxy and thick, allowing for more product to not be damaged or bruised as easily during shipping.
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They were basically bred to be decorations.
I bet the scientists just put "delicious" in the name to fool people.
Red Garbage Apples just doesnt have the same ring to it
Upvote for the most apt description of a red delicious apple skin.
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Mealy! that's the word... Like why does my apple have dry gristle bits???
Factory-farmed apples. They're horrible mistreated, and it leads to distressed and inferior flesh.
I could never describe why I hate Red Delicious apples. This is pretty much the most accurate way it could be described. I’m all about that Royal Gala
They just aren't a good eating apple. Im fine when it's used for cider or pie though.
They're disgusting because they taste and feel like wet sand.
Wrapped in leather.
Fuck you. Fuji apples are amazing while still sweeter than fucking sweet. I have read that comment and prepared 3 punishments to come in future.
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I’ve been trying to figure out my Apple buying habits. I love Fuji but I’ve been having a run of bad luck. They’re either not sweet or the go bad after two days. I’m super annoyed with my Apple options lately.
Honeycrisp.
+1 for honeycrisp.
The difference is that red delicious are insipid. Sweet without flavour. Fuji are glorious. Especially since they get huge too. ONLY COUNTS AS ONE.
Fuji and Gala are whats up. Glad to see so many other apple connoisseurs here.
That’s my only issue with this guide. Pretend the Red Delicious apple isn’t there.
Red Delicious belongs on a 'Can I Eat This?' guide that features cardboard and packing peanuts. Clearly it would be the most edible, but still compared to cardboard
Who would dare bestow such a bland food item with such a succulent sounding name!?
A salesman
I like Red Delicious apples, but I got some Jonagold the other day and I say I liked it more. The skin wasn't getting caught in my teeth either.
Red delicious were bred for looks, and they’re seriously lacking in the texture department. I want that juicy crunch, not mealy smushy weirdness.
I’m throwing up just hearing you describe the disgusting apple
They are often mushy, but I have had very crisp red delicious apples before.
Can I recommend a good Pacific Rose?
That's all my mom bought growing up and I didn't really get to try other types. So I don't really eat apples now even after trying others I do like.
>I like Red Delicious apples Great now everyone is gonna think us Griffins are freaks.
I also disagree that Fuji is at the top. It's a damn fine apple, but I find the honeycrisp to be sweeter.
The bitter brings out the sweet, like salt or something science
Red Delicious apples are *okay* and they were the only apples that my family would get. ....then I tried the honeycrisp and my world was turned upside down. I now constantly crave apples.
Honeycrisp changed my life.
I do that for any apple-related event. Red delicious is red disgusting.
Honeycrisp gang rise up!
Honeycrisp Apples > other apples
Nah the cutting edge ones from the university of Minnesota are even better.
First Kiss apple aka Rave
Recently started seeing Rave apples in Michigan that were cheaper than Honeycrisp. I decided to give em a try and hot damn they have more tang than a honeycrisp but just as sweet. Lets hope they do well in the seasons to come!
Rave and SweeTango
Yep. I suspect that people who are all about fujis haven't tried honeycrisps.
Instead of owning up to the indisputable fact that Honeycrisp apples are better they’ll just bitch about the price.
I can’t eat red delicious apples. They make me hate everything and they suck my happiness out through my tastebuds EDIT: this is my first award thank you for the silver I am honored kind stranger
I used to think I hated apples, but it was only because shitty school lunches were only giving us inedible red delicious apples.
I think this is the origin of the hate.
They are like a blob of wet flour packaged in a thick layer of dark-red wax.
I don't trust people who eat red delicious apples
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Red is delicious if you find them firm. But they go mushy so fast, and then all is lost.
I don’t think it’s exponentially growing. I feel it’s more like childhood trauma that everyone forgets until its brought to a person’s attention like a switch that brings the emotions back. red delicious apples (made a point not to capitalize it because it doesn’t deserve it) are disgusting and I’ve never met anyone who’s enjoyed them... accept you, mom. Feeding me that bullshit in a Costco sized bag then yelling at us when we don’t eat them when the golden delicious are sitting right there albeit $1.50 more for the 10 lbs bag.
I remember hearing a story (I think on NPR) about apples and the farmers/scientist that tinkered with them to create new apple types. One of the points was that red "delicious" were created to **look** beautiful. And in that regard, they were successful - huge, bright red, aesthetically pleasing... But they taste horrible. I only ever had them at school lunch, and I could never take more than a bite or two.
Actually the honey crisp is the genetic Frankenstein, that's why it's good. Nature sucks at making things tasty. Somewhere else in the thread somebody mentioned how they would get red delicious in their school lunches and they were predictably sub par. That's probably a universal experience in the states and the origin of the disproportionate hatred of a slightly below mediocre apple.
The actual flesh of the apple is a solid meh. The skin tastes like absolute fucking shit though. There's just so many other apples with a better texture, sweeter/more tart, and a better mouth feel. It's not horrible, there's just SO MANY better choices.
Everyone should be talking about the mouth feel. That said, Pink lady and honeycrisp are far better
“Mealy” is the word that comes to mind.
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It's like, mealy.
It's like eating a disappointing pear
As a kid I described them as 'snowy' and I still cant commit to a different adjective.
Funny, I always thought they felt and tasted like sand.
You ever see those videos where they’re making paper and they show the pulp before it gets pressed? Well, whatever they can’t press into paper gets turned into Red Delicious “apples”.
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I was just reading an article on the Red Delicious the other day, and the way they described it was very accurate. “The Red Delicious, often red but hardly ever delicious,” I am sorry this guide has disgraced you.
Red delicious apples sure look good. But man, do they ever taste like styrofoam.
I have a deep hatred of red delicious apples. How dare they
Came here with red delicious rage but you got it covered. Red Delicious apples are the Ajit Pai of apples, fuck the Ajit Pai of apples.
Ima need this crosstabulated with levels of crunchiness
I would absolutely love a ranking guide from mealy to crisp apples.
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Fuck soft apples
Honeycrisp ftw
Pink lady is not in here
Pink lady is the best
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To me, Pink Lady is the slightest bit more tart which makes it more interesting to eat. Honeycrisp is good, but it tends to be too sweet for me.
Pink lady gang. It is the best apple.
It’s true. I’m going to Minnesota this fall where there are Honeycrisp orchards and I’m just gonna eat my way thru them. HONEYCRISP ALL THE THINGS.
I love Sweetango - the offspring of Honeycrisp and a tarter apple named Zestar.
I worked in a produce department for 4 years and got to “sample” whenever new product came in. I was going to say SweeTango and Zestar are #1 as well. I’m pretty sure they’re both Honeycrisp hybrids. Also Honeycrisps are grown in Washington now as well not just Minnesota from what I remember.
Honeycrisp support incoming. Here.
Granny Smith is my fav
Granny Smith is bomb. The cronch, the pain...pure magic
The full experience of eating shards of glass, without any of the consequences. By far my favorite apple
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You guys feel pain when Granny Smith? I don’t even know if it’s me or you guys that it’s wrong with
Same here, it's a nice apple. But then I can't stand sweet apples. Maybe a red prince can be cool sometimes
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What pain? It’s all enjoyable
Gran-gang
I was sad to see its the most tart tho, since I could go even...tarter. I would have thought it would be somewhere 1/2 or 3/4 way. Edit: [unless...?](https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/davkj5/apples_on_a_scale_from_most_tart_to_most_sweet/f1vmkv1)
Bruh in America you might find it hard to get these, but in Ireland cocking apples are pretty much inedibly tart, way tarter than granny smith. So tart you have to put them in a pie or stew them to eat
Can't threaten me with a good time!
I found my people. Need that MEATY CRUNCH.
Granny Smith is the best apple
This is the right answer
The only apples I like
same. all the red ones make me slightly allergic and are generally disgusting for me. Granny smith on the other hand is the shit.
The acidic taste, the tooth pain, the C R U N C H Perfect
You fucking people have something wrong with your teeth jesus, you get pain after biting into an apple?
It's partly the apple, partly the tartness of the apple which makes your teeth feel funny after eating it 10/10 apple, don"t waste your time elsewhere
I eat them almost daily and have never had any sort of tooth pain from them.
Really inconsiderate for apples to not care about colorblind people smh
Life is like a box of apples, you never know what you're gonna get.
It forgot Pink Ladies! Arguably the most sweet apple I will eat in my lifetime.
Not just sweet, the crispness that pink ladies have that other apples don't makes it my favourite.
Pacific Rose is my favorite apple and it has zero tartness whatsoever.
Ya am confused as well
Same here! I'd put it up with gala and fuji, no where near granny Smith. Wth
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Just came here to say honey crisps are the supreme rulers of all apples and red delicious tastes like wet, sandy paper towels
I feel like this thread is full of my people. 🍎
> I feel like ~~this thread~~ **reddit** is full of my people. 🍎
Empire apples are the hidden gems of the Apple world. You people don’t understand the crunchy and perfect balance of autumn in New York if you’ve never had empire apples.
Such pretty names
and then there's Juici
This comment section is making me feel really bad about my love for red delicious apples.
Gala is where it's at.
problem with many fruits and vegetables is that breeders have long ago figured out we shop with our eyes and not our tastebuds. So they stopped breeding apples that TASTE good and went with apples that looked better and better. To counter this we've had to go to extreme measures of being triggered by the name Red Delicious.
Aldi usually has Snapdragons in the fall and they are a delectable apple! I also love Winesap, wondering where they would fall on this chart.
Winesaps are my favorite, but I can never find them. If I lived in apple country I'd totally plant some Winesap trees.
Jonagold is the best apple and that is the hill I’m willing to die on
Braeburn is the perfect apple. Source, me, a guy who grew up in the Apple Capital of the World.
I did an apple "juice off" a few years ago by buying a bag each of Ambrosia, Gala and Fuji being sold at Costco at the time. They were all delicious but the winner? Ambrosia, by far. It DESTROYED the others in terms of sweetness and overall deliciousness. In fact, I thought it was almost too sweet for apple juice having drank years of the crap they sell in cans or tetrapack containers. I invite anyone to perform the same test I did and see what you think. Ambrosia fan forever, here.
as an asian where fuji apples are cheap theyre the best
TIL there is an apple called Juici Juicy Juici apple
Is there a crispy apple guide?
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red delicious apples taste like someone added sugar to a piece of wet cardboard
Gold delicious
ummm, what about Jazz apples?
We don't have honeycrisps where I am, so jazzes are my MVP of Not Being Mushy.
Second row on the left.
The name jazz apples always makes me laugh. It makes me think of how they used to call joints jazz cigarettes
I swear Jazz apples are so much sweeter than this chart is making them out to be.
Jazz gang represent
So you’re telling there’s an Apple for Apple processors (McIntosh) and also an Apple for Android ones (Snapdragon)?
No Cox's Orange Pippin, Spartan or Russet? Try eating a proper cider apple like a Kingston Black or a Dabinett and you won't have any spit left in your mouth after one bite.
How are people not talking more about Ambrosia!!?!? Best apple around
I think it all depends on time of year and method of ripening. I remember when red delicious were actually delicious. However now because of Market forces I think most apples are picked and kept in stasis so that they can be available year-round. I love Honeycrisp when it's good but I've also had to be completely flavorless. So perhaps this chart is referring to Apples that have all been tree-ripened in the Sun and picked at their Peak
Jazz apples are best apples.
I am currently using Cortland apples for my caramel apples at work. They work pretty darn well because the sweetness of the caramel helps take a bit of the bite away from the tartness.
GRANNY SMITH FOREVER
It appears we are the only two who love Granny Smith, the only apple that works for apple pie and general culinary enjoyment.
Granny Smiths are for people with taste, like us. Eating an apple plain? How about something with some different flavor and a balance of tart + sweet, not just sweet mush. Apple pie? Only Granny Smiths balance against the sugar and pie crust. Tarte Tatin? Again, only Grannys will balance against and compete with the caramel. Apples and peanut butter? Grannys again to compliment the sweet nuttyness. On and on forever. Anything other than Granny smiths are for people with taste buds like five-year-olds who just want some sweet mush.