I live in washington and bought 3 cosmic crisps this past spring from burnt ridge. I wasn’t being a hog… one for me…one for my niece and one for my daughter (both live in WA also).
Anyway… they didn’t ask me to sign anything. Since I was picking the trees up rather than having them shipped, I was asked if I live in Washington and they could verify that as I have bought quite a few things there over the years. I don’t think they really want to get into policing the agreement of the breeders. I think the breeders are just trying to give washington apple growers a head start on this tree as it was developed at Washington university… and receive a good deal of public funding for research etc.
I don’t think anyone is hunting down someone who buys one tree here and plants it out of state.
Last year about this time, my son bought 4 cosmic crips apples at a local store $4.99/lb !!
We shared one (delicious, crisp)… gave one to daughter. I put one in the refrig and the other in the garage (cold but freeze protected).
He and I shared the one in the refrig last March. Skin was slight dry feeling but inside was just about identical to the one we had 4 months previously.
He and I shared the last one that had been kept in the garage in JUNE! Skin slightly dry/dehydrated. Inside almost as crisp and juicy as the 1st one we ate about 7 months before. Flavor was unchanged.
It is a winner as for as I am concerned!!
Okay so last year i really liked these but they had this awful flavour around the skin. The better i washed them the less it tasted and after some pesticide reduction washing they were better but it still lingered enough i worried it was part of the skins taste.
Got my hands on some organic ones this year and WOW! Best tasting apple i have had this year for sure with no strange aftertaste on the skin. Hoping this apple is resistant to fireblight but washington state deserves a round of applause.
Funny you should bring that up about the strange taste.
I bought two batches of Cosmic Crisp both in the fridge. They look identical, these are the large, dark ones. One batch tastes great, and I understand a little of the hype. The other batch tastes terrible. The skin is bitter, and it has vegetal flavor, like celery or something. I was hoping storage would improve them, but after a couple of weeks, they were still awful. After tasting, I threw out the slices.
Yeah I’m putting my money on some new pesticide or fungicide. It was very off putting and it was the only non local / organic apple I ate last year so I attributed it to that.
I had to buy a bunch more and gave them out to people as early Presents
I bought one Cosmic Crisp at Kroger from a big display. Just one…but I got a good one (as last year I wasn’t at all impressed).
Red, crisp, juicy, sweet…skin a little tough…flavor of a Starkrimson almost but not quite…more complex than a delicious.
This one favorably compared to Crimson Crisp and EverCrisp. The samples I bought last year did not.
*I suspect what made this one refreshingly nice was that it was picked tree ripened and hadn’t been in storage long.
It probably has nothing on Red Delicious or Fuji after 9 months. (And I love both of those ripe from the tree on a cool day.)
So i ate my first Cosmic Crisp today and i had a few thoughts.
1- Extremely sweet. Almost too sweet. By the end of the apple, i was done with it. Like eating spoonfuls of sugar.
2- Very large. 2 applea per pound is a big apple.
3- Crisp. A really nice snap when bitten into.
Overall it was a very good apple. I understand why there is a lot of hype behind this apple. Not the best apple ive ever had, but thats personal preference.
