The first honey crisp I tried ages ago was a really good apple for sweetness and crunch, it still lacked depth of flavor. Since I have not found one as good.
I would take a Prairie Magic over a honey crisp.
The Alaska fruit growers association holds a yearly apple sampling event. People give points to their favorite apples. Chestnut tends to come ahead of honey crisp.
My favorite seasonal produce market in Richmond Virginia is getting in VA grown apples now. Some nice looking Jonagold, Empire, Golden Surpreme, Blondee, Ambrosia and unfortunately some small Jonathans with a few with Johnathan spot. They also had local Honeycrisp, Gala and Cosmic Crisp. But I was more interested in the ones you donât see at Kroger. All were $1.49 so must be a good crop as last year it was $2.49 to kick off the fall apple season.
They also were unloading a tractor trailer load of all kinds of Pumpkins. As some on here have said, it does seem a waste for all the resources for a non food crop while food banks are busier than ever trying to feed the needy.
Yeah, my problem with golden delicious is the soft texture and banana aroma when they are old. It seems I can never find ones in a store that donât have the texture of styrofoam. They make a lovely baked apple though, my favorite along with rome.
I really love the flavor of a good golden though, but they are hard to find at a high quality! I remember getting them from an orchard in P.A. they all had that slight blush on them and were the best! Even the red delicious from that orchard were good. Think they closed down now though.
I like Golden Supreme and Luna. Both offspring of Golden Delicious with a bit more zing. I hope to pick up a few more Eastern Europe crosses and sports of Golden in the next few years. Like Golden Reindeers.
I am currently growing sundance and crunch a bunch, but I have not gotten anything from them yet. Goldrush is also a solid apple, all great keepers.
I feel like goldens have a huge range in quality. Most golden delicious are not very good in my opinion but the few that have a crisper texture tend to be favorable and enjoyable to my palate. I love denser fleshed apples so I do enjoy envy, Evercrisp, ect⊠for that attribute alone.
I grabbed 5 Goldenâs at the grocery store{piggly wiggly} and 2 were very good. 3 had the softer crumbly patches in spots. Curious as they felt very firm.
I have some old goldens, theyâre pretty good, but I donât like their thick skin.
I LOVE Sugarbee. Part of my extended family is in âthe clubâ and has an orchard of them, so every year they send a box of them for me. Fresh Sugarbee apples, along with Sugarbee and pear leather is just awesome. To me, those Sugarbees have some sort of a unique flavor to them that I love.
Although when store-bought, I prefer Safewayâs Sweetango over their Sugarbees.
Youâve captured my experience with Golden Delicious. When you get good ones, you understand the name. But the odds are not worth it at the grocery store.
At the beginning HoneyCrisp was great. Then the quality went down the drain. Some tasted like nothing and some tasted bitter. At least the price came down. Some as low as .99 cent a LB. Honey Bee tasted sweet, but itâs not remarkable for me. Envy is a hit and a miss. One time I got an excellent Envy apple. It was crunchy, sweet, and have the aroma aftertaste. Other time, itâs old and mushy. When itâs old or overripe, itâs as good or bad as the Red Delicious. The price tag is still $2.5 to 3.0 a LB. So, I purchase 2 or 3 apples for that price.
Yeah, overcropped honeycrisp are bland and watery but still crisp. I generally think the ones I get from the northeast growers near me are better. I get them from u-picks when in season. Some years are definitely better than others, but that is for any fruit. There are better flavored apples, but the eating experience of honeycrisp is hard to beat.
Envy is better than sugarbee from what Iâve had. Envy has a candied citrus like taste, wereas sugarbee just tastes like sugar. I prefer tart apples like pink lady over both.
For many years they were one of the most reliably good apples available in the supermarket, meaning usually not super old, dry mealy, etc. I think they were just so common that they could usually source some fresh ones. In the off season youâd start seeing Galas from the southern hemisphere. And it was the variety that the rest of my family liked the best.
Iâm SO tired of them now. Donât care if I never eat another gala. Also, their taste kind of reminds me of how stink bugs smell.
The original poorly colored Galas have good flavor. I got some from a local orchard a few weeks ago. Same with Honeycrisp. The new redder variants suck.
I have the original Gala. It fruited for the 1st time this year. It was a small apple. Didnât even turn red before it start dropping. Some of them was crunchy and tasted better than the grocery store one. Some tasted bland and tart. So, itâs a mix bag at this stage. It should get better over time.
Just ate a Pink Lady that was pleasantly sweet with a slight honeydew melon taste. Pretty good. Very happy my wife bought me a young Pink Lady tree for my birthday now.
I am eating a sugar bee apple right now that I got from Trader Joeâs.
Nice and crisp in the inside, the skin is a little thick and chewy
Sweet and not much else going on for it. Not my kind of apple flavor wise.
But itâs better than the Piñata apples we got they were mealy and didnât even have a good flavor so I did return them.
If money wasnât so tight, maybe I wouldâve gave them to the chickens, but it doesnât seem fair to pay high dollar for substandard fruit.
I know someone says theyâre better than Honeycrisp, but Iâll have to disagree with that.
Iâd much rather have a honey crisp than either one of those apples.
The organic Envys we get in the fall are what I almost exclusively use for making applesauce. Sometimes with a pink lady or two thrown in for more tart/snap flavor. But, Iâve tried every apple my store gets and 75%+ envy makes the best applesauce. (That is all apple plus a dash of cinnamon and squeeze of lemon.)
I really like Sugarbee apples when theyâre fairly fresh. Part of my extended family-in-law âownsâ a Sugarbee apple orchard up in Washington, so every year they send me a box of fresh apples. Theyâre definitely sweet, but sometimes they seem to almost have a sort of spicy flavor too that I love.
Hope to get Medunica scions this next season. A late Summer/early fall Russian. Spicy honey sweetness. Keeps a month or 2.
