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I posted a thread like this about 10 years ago, was interesting to found out favourite apples !
I just had a gorgeous Red Windsor, full of taste and crisp.
if you have an apple tree, what variety???
Cider
Pink Lady 😁
So I guess Mike and I have covered the obvious...
Standard issue Gala. Just definitive imo
iPad Pro.
Egremont Russet
rough skinned white flesh perfect tartness. Great with cheese.
I knew a girl like that once.
PInk Lady or Braeburn
Braeburn
Pink lady
the sharp crunchy ones from the allotment on the walk home from town.
They're dried dog turds.
I have 3 old apple trees (over 100 years old). Heavy crop this year, all nice tasting, no idea what varieties they are, all different.
i also have a more recent small apple tree which is a heavy cropper. No idea which variety but tastes nice.
if I was buying in a shop I would, like my dad, go for Cox's Orange Pippin. Followed by Braeburn or pink lady.
Braeburn .
Egremont Russet
Definitely the correct answer
Cox. Bumper crop this year, though they don’t keep well. I’m on two a day at the moment.
I quite like the new iPhone XS
Discovery.
I used to favour the mighty Braeburn however a few years in NZ made me miss the more tart varieties that you can get in the UK. It was tricky making a good crumble when you don't have Bramley apples available. One would have to add some feijoa to make it more tart and tasty.
The last few years I have been a big fan of UK grown apples and can honestly say that love the cox 😀
My mum has a Egremont Russet tree growing so they're a bit of a treat, not an every day eater.
Gala
Y'know, I used to have so much respect for you 😐
Egremont Russet ftw
Worcester Pearmain (strawberry flavour apples)
or maybe Laxton's Fortune
Braeburn. They stay nice and crisp, soft apples are always disappointing.
Cambusnethan Pippin.
I grow them myself you know.
#niche
I love a good crisp granny smith. Resd of the family like pink lady so we compromise and buy pink ladies mostly....
I like my apples like i like my magazines.... Jazz apples!
They aren't sold in the UK, but I remember Macintosh being delicious when I stayed on a apple farm in Quebec.
I love a good crisp granny smith
Amazed it took 22 posts to get to the Granny Smith. Tart, crisp and tangy. A lovely apple.
What Mildred and Rik said, difficut to find tho.
I like Coxs too (matron), but it seems every apple (possibly bar organic) have merely a shadow of their former tastes, some with almost none 🙁
Cooking apples, baked into a pie.
Or a big dollop served alongside a pork chop.
If you are anywhere near Bretforton (nr Evesham) on Oct 12th-14th, The Fleece (brilliant pub) have their Apple and Ale festival.
https://thefleeceinn.co.uk/events/apple-ale-festival
They aren’t sold in the UK, but I remember Macintosh being delicious when I stayed on a apple farm in Quebec.
That’s where Apple Macintosh computers got their name Jobs’ favourite Apple, apparently.
I have a small apple tree, no idea what variety, it was bought by my folks ten-twelve years ago, at least, from a supermarket. Came in a pot, produced lovely apples, dark red, very firm flesh with a slightly green cast. Makes a very satisfying crunch and snap when you bite into it, and it’s sweet with a nice tartness to it, and quite juicy. Sadly, the label disappeared long ago. Poor thing suffered at the hands of my step-dad, who wasn’t half the gardener he thought he was, the tree was stuck in its pot for some years, then transplanted into the garden, into a shallow hole without the root ball being broken upen. I dug it up last November, opened up the roots and put it into a deeper hole. It produced masses of flower this year, and lots of apples, although they’re rather small. Last year it produced virtually nothing of any worth, so it can only get better as the roots go deeper and the whole tree gets bigger and stronger. It’s such a pleasure to be able to pick and eat apples from my own tree!
