how do you like them apples?

emo72

yeah? im seriously annoyed by the lack of choice in supermarkets. pink ladies, golden delicious, granny smiths. is that it? surely there was tons more available when i was a kid. anyone know if there are other tastier varieties about? help a brother out.

Space Dog

I usually buy Braeburn, Gala and Jonagold as I prefer red and sweet apples over green and sour. All of those are/have been available in Aldi and LIDL, maybe try a few different supermarkets?

Shenshen

emo72 wrote: »

yeah? im seriously annoyed by the lack of choice in supermarkets. pink ladies, golden delicious, granny smiths. is that it? surely there was tons more available when i was a kid. anyone know if there are other tastier varieties about? help a brother out.

Braeburn are my favourite, but even they can be hard to find these days. I find Pink Lady way too sweet, though they are nice an crunchy.

I never really understood "cooking apples" - they seem to have so much less flavour than almost any other variety, and the only thing going for them seems to be that they turn mushy when cooked? My gran has a Boscop tree in her garden - now THERE's an apple to make a pie with!

Gloomtastic!

I've noticed with cooking apples, they go brown within a minute or two of peeling. Just like the eating apples when I was a kid. These days eating apples do not go brown for ages!

emo72

Well I have tried a few places, like aldi lidl and m and s. Marks have more variety but still think the choice is small. Will try the braeburn. I prefer big red apples.

Shenshen

I think your best alternative if you're really looking for lots of variety might be to make friends with someone who has an old orchard.

Back in Germany the grandfather of one of my friends had one of these, the varieties were actually quite staggering. He had some tiny, severely sour ones that made great cider (well, Apfelmost ), he had a variety that had red flesh rather then white, etc. Most of them would have been a lot smaller than what you'd see in the shops, though, and some of them had skin so tough you had to peel them before you could eat them.

huskerdu

You are right.

There are great apple farms selling Irish apples, but you have to hunt to find them.
This crowd are amazing. You should ask them if they stock any markets local to you.

http://www.theapplefarm.com

emo72

huskerdu wrote: »

You are right.

There are great apple farms selling Irish apples, but you have to hunt to find them.
This crowd are amazing. You should ask them if they stock any markets local to you.

http://www.theapplefarm.com

That's the type of answer that helps. I knew there had to someone growing stuff that doesn't get into supermarkets.

Jellybaby1

I just saw this and also look for different apples, glad to see the reply above. My all time favourite apple is Red Chief but I can't get it in supermarkets anymore. I occasionally come across it in specialised fruit and vegetable shops.

longshanks

huskerdu wrote: »

You are right.

There are great apple farms selling Irish apples, but you have to hunt to find them.
This crowd are amazing. You should ask them if they stock any markets local to you.

http://www.theapplefarm.com

The Apple Farm looks the business and you can camp up there. Happy days.