/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.16105866]

for me, it’s honeycrisp

[Anonymous No.16105872]

based, fuck weebapples

[Anonymous No.16106004]

>>16105866
we call the COX apples here.

[Anonymous No.16106441]

pink lady and granny smith

[Anonymous No.16106443]

for me its granny smiths sour juicy cruncy apples

[Anonymous No.16106565]

who /pinklady/ here?

[Anonymous No.16106609]

>>16105866
Is there some weird story behind these?
They are indeed amazing, and pricey, but it seems like the just popped on the scene maybe 5 years ago out of nowhere.

[Anonymous No.16106684]

Ida red fur mich

[Anonymous No.16106705]

>>16106609
They were developed "recently", and it's just a matter of letting the trees grow and spread. If it all started with 1 acre or whatever they devoted to the original crossing research (probably not even that), imagine how many years it takes to let them grow to maturity and start producing seeds to then plant and grow, and that's after they had to just hang around and wait to see what kind of apple they ended up with. Think about how slow a tree grows and how many years it takes for apple trees to begin producing fruit in any meaningful numbers.

[Anonymous No.16106707]

>>16106609
https://mnhardy.umn.edu/varieties/fruit/apples/honeycrisp

U of Minnesota owns the patent or trademark and licenses the name.

[Anonymous No.16106716]

>>16105866
Golden delicious ‘ples have never let me down

[Anonymous No.16106749]

>>16105866
Fuji is the real weeb's choice.

[Anonymous No.16106812]

>>16105866
wine sap
jonothan
golden delicious
I refuse to eat any of these new zoomer apples, they all taste like they've been injected with sugar syrup and the fact that they're new scares and angers me.

[Anonymous No.16106829]

>>16106707
Jesus christ I'm regretting my major and school

[Anonymous No.16106832]

[Anonymous No.16107804]

Gala or Red Delicious none of that sour shit

[Anonymous No.16108247]

Gotta go with Gala, not too overpriced either from the stores I know

[kidnap victim No.16108280]

>>16105866
i like pink lady and fuji

[Anonymous No.16108284]

after exclusively eating braeburns for years everything else feels like mush

[Anonymous No.16108309]

>>16106565

[Anonymous No.16108328]

for me, its COSMIC CRISP

[Anonymous No.16108369]

>>16105866
Apples are just shit pears.

[Anonymous No.16108622]

>>16105866
Yellow opals are delicious too

[Anonymous No.16108636]

>based apple coming through

[Anonymous No.16108921]

>>16105866
I got a bag of fuji the other day and they're probably the worst apples I've ever had. They were so fucking bland, tasted like absolutely nothing except water and sugar. I hate red delicious but I would gladly take a red delicious over a fuji any day, because at least the red delicious tastes like something. They were still edible and a pretty good snack but compared to the gala I got last week it was just a fucking bummer

[Anonymous No.16108937]

>>16108636
oh boy, is that some delicious pink lady?

[Anonymous No.16108941]

>>16105866
based, literally the best apple

[Anonymous No.16108946]

>>16108921
try honecrisp. you'll never go back

[Anonymous No.16108970]

>>16105866
For me, it's almost any apple that's not a fucking bin apple. Hand picked only, individually placed and not stored in huge bins where it gets crushed. Individually wrapped, boxed and perfect every time.

I don't buy apples in the grocery store. I have them sent direct from the fruit grower.

[Anonymous No.16109025]

>Now look what we have here before us. We’ve got the Pink Ladies sitting next to the Honeycrisp Boys. We’ve got the Fujis, right by the Courtands. Nobody is flaming nobody. That … is a miracle … and miracles, is the way things ought to be.

[Anonymous No.16109061]

>>16109025

holy shit, could it be that apples are THE food capable of uniting this whole board?

[Anonymous No.16109390]

>>16108970
>t.sultan of Brunei

[Anonymous No.16109484]

>>16105866
>$7/lb
Na

[Anonymous No.16109508]

>>16106609
Developing fruit varieties is a long process. There are universities and private institutions that dedicate themselves to creating new varieties of fruit. Its usually done in a screen house or the trees are netted to prevent natural insect pollination. Then people take pollen from a tree of a fruit that has desirable qualities. Then they use that pollen to pollinate a tree with desirable traits. Then they take the fruit of the pollinated tree and plant the seeds. They grow out hundreds of seedlings and evaluate for disease resistance, vigor and growth habit. Then they take the trees that pass evals and plant them out in an experimental orchard. They wait years to try the fruit. Then they evaluate the fruit for desirable traits such as color, size, shipability, disease resistance, taste, and how productive the tree is. Then they take several years to document how consistent the traits are. They take budwood and graft other trees and test them in different orchards under different growing systems. out of hundreds possibly thousands of seedlings they pick the most promising ones and patent them. Then they start selling them to orchards. Orchards usually dont plant an entire orchard with one new variety. The variety starts gaining reputation and orchard owners will plant more of that variety. Eventually the patent expires and can be freely propagated. This is when orchardists start planting the variety in huge quantities.

It could be a 20yr process from seed to selling a tree to an orchard.

For instance, honeycrisp was first planted in an experimental orchard in 1974. Then it was patented in 1988. Then it was released for sale in 1991. The patent expired in 2008. However the variety is trademarked forever. And i remember seeing it in the supermarket in 2010’s . Im sure its been in farmers markets and supermarkets earlier but this is what i remember. Now its everywhere and so is jazz apple and pink lady.

[Anonymous No.16109518]

>>16105866
For me, it’s Pink Lady
>no bully plz

[Anonymous No.16109645]

Mn anon here.
Regarding Honeycrisp apples. Did anyone notice when panic buying first started everyone bought shelf stable goods but the produce isles were stocked plenty?
The reason i ask is because i assume tons of people stopped buying the honey crisp apples, because for like a couple months after panic buying you could get them dirt cheap. Now I've noticed that almost all the honeycrisp apples in the store lately are like overgrown and half as sweet.
Maybe it's just me

[Anonymous No.16109681]

>>16109645
also mnfag
honeycrisps have dropped in price a bit around the east metro though they're still at a premium compared to galas, fujis, and pink ladies

[Anonymous No.16109692]

for me it's the cosmic crisp

[Anonymous No.16109867]

>>16109484
>he doesnt weigh all his produce as bean sprouts and never get his receipt checked because he's white

[Anonymous No.16110391]

Bajama dancer this and interstellar quasar crisp that
For me, it's a good ol' granny smith

[Anonymous No.16110395]

>>16109681
Pink ladies go for a massive premium in Ireland. Comparatively honeycrisp and gala are extremely cheap.

[Anonymous No.16110407]

Like apples? Watch this.

https://www.pbs.org/video/oregon-field-guide-apple-detectives/