A perfect apple is a perfect food. On a spectrum of Tart to Sweetness, I wonder which most people prefer. A note to your editor: I think it is "McIntosh" not Macintosh, which the former was S. Job's favorite apple. They spelled the computer with an "a" to not be confused with McIntosh company who made audio equipment.
Honey Crisp, Pink Ladies, and Cosmic Crisps rank at the top of my list. And I totally agree that getting them from the market is different than getting them from the orchard direct. I have never, ever tasted a strawberry from a supermarket, that came remotely close to the goodnes of first pick of the season, direct from the field, that day. Apples aren't quite so dramatic, but still applies.
The problem with taste testing apples (or any fruit, really) is their harvest window varies over 3-5 months depending on location, and apples are stored in cold storage for many months and parsed out commercially over time. The apple you could be eating may be 3-4 months old, or from an entirely different hemisphere of Earth (this is how we have apples year-round, folks!). So, the mealiness of apples is because you’re comparing apples that are 1, 2, 3 and 4 months old to each other. It isn’t possible to compare apple varieties at the same relative freshness. You may just be eating a REALLY old apple, which isn’t fair, but that’s commercial agriculture.
I agree i learned this with Ambrosia apples where in the Fall months they taste phenomenal, but the rest of the year not so much. I usually change my apple buying habits to better match what time of the year we are in to account for their freshness.
@@suicune690The irony being that, if the Oversimplified video on Prohibition is anything, doctors still had an exemption to distribute alcohol for medical purposes so conveniently there were a big increase in alcohol prescriptions in the 1920s
Most of the "bad" apples are not bad per se, they're just used for other things rather than eating it directly (e.g.: juice, cider, vinegar, cooking, etc)
@@FortyHurtsyeah, I came here to back this up. It was weird seeing the reviews for some varieties boil down to old apples. (source: my family's orchard)
@@FortyHurts That is absolutely not true. You can tell when Red Delicious and Golden Delicious in particular have been overbred for hardiness because even the fresh ones with a nice snap to the skin still taste like cornmeal.
Depending on when this was shot, the meely texture and softness of a lot of the apples is a sign of the apple being old/kept in climate controlled (frozen) storage. Some of these apples are harvested as early as September (ginger gold) and some as late as November. Although a great idea for a video, it is one that should be done in the fall and in partnership with an orchard/s to know you are getting the freshest examples
Yeah, this was exactly my thought as I was watching this. This is like as much of a shelf life comparison as it is an apple variety comparison, which is why the Red Delicious didn’t fail too much while others did.
And when is the last time you saw most of these varieties at the store? These were clearly purchased from a farmers market or farm specializing in unusual varieties (or at least the majority of them were). I agree that it was a GREAT tasting for eating apples, but that was never actually stated, and I really was curious about storage, as it can drastically change how an apple eats (most modern varieties have been bred for it, but old heritage varieties have not). @@marcpeterson1092
The thing about Cortlands is that they are unbelievably different when you pick them fresh from a tree: crisp, tart, and juicy. A grocery store Cortland, often even a farmers' market Cortland, will probably have been off the tree for long enough to have their textures change dramatically. When picked fresh and eaten within a week (or two if refrigerated), they are absolutely amazing apples. I've described a fresh Cortland as "a Granny Smith without the malice" because they're just as crisp, very nearly as tart, just as juicy, but with a thinner skin and a bit better acid-sweet balance. I only really eat them during apple-picking season and they are pure heaven.
Yeah. Many cultivars are meant for travel and not for flavor. Some are meant for eating from up the street, if not in your own yard. My garden broccoli would have looked like wet compost, if I drove it across town. But it's awesome right out the yard.
I'm so sad to see that he didn't try the Envy apple. It reminds me of the original Brother's Grimm story of Snow White. The apple was described as partially pale on one side and then red on the other. The pale side was supposed to be "poison" because of the lack of color (which is why the evil queen ate from that side while she had poisoned the red side). The first time I tried it I said that I'd risk being poisoned over that apple, too. I'm not a red apple person, but that's definitely my favorite.
Envy had decent flavor but they're a bit too hard for that perfect crunchy bite. SweeTango was just another level above the rest when I tried 34 during peak season.
Also as a resident Bostonian, I was kinda surprised to see the Roxbury Russet, I used to live on Mission Hill and they literally littered the streets/parks depending where. I can't eat them though, unfortunately. Apples will only remain a fond memory of childhood, lost in time.
Neither of those are fancy weird hybrids. What of them is a weird processing thing and the other one is just a newer variety to be available in the United States. The United States is super far behind the rest of the world on our grape varieties because of some disease issues that occurred. Most Americans have absolutely no idea how incredibly sweet and the incredible amount of variety of flavors of grapes exist in the rest of the world.
Eating apples that have been in cold storage for months I think makes the rankings skewed. Some apples have really great shelf lives and others do not. My favorite apple ever is called Sansa. It’s an early season apple with a VERY short shelf life. They maybe keep for 2 days before they start to get soft. But when they’re fresh they are very crisp and snappy without the density of a honeycrisp with a very thin papery skin that’s sort of pink in color. They’re very sweet with a flavor that is very pear like. If anyone ever goes apple picking (in the northeast) in the early season I HIGHLY recommend trying one. But be careful buying them in a store because again their shelf life is INCREDIBLY short.
Came here to say exactly that. I worked in an orchard and some apple you find in grocery stores that are meh are amazing freshly picked. It can be the opposite, some apples need to be left in storage before consuming.
Favorite apple 🍎super juicy, perfect combo of sweet & tart, semi soft so it doesn’t hurt your teeth.. greener ones have a tarter taste I like, redder ones more sweet . I like a nice mix green and red Macintosh 👌
Store bought never tastes right to me, but when I get them from the local orchards every fall, they're by far my favorite. They really need to be fresh.
@@TroubleDuo01 The Pink lady is not a parent apple of the Honeycrisp. The parent apples of the Honeycrisp are the Keepsake apple and an unreleased UMN apple (MN1627).
My guess is heavy regionality? I get cosmic crisp and envy in my areas farmers markets but probably only about half of these have shown up. And my hometown is like THE apple capitol. Imo.
Problem with the red delicious is that it’s been overbred for over a century resulting in the infamous “catchers mitt filled with coffee grinds” texture. Benjamin Franklin’s favorite apple has been overbred to the point where it’s just like a crab apple now
@@zetizaharahe probably liked it because none of the apples are fresh. They’re bred for long shelf life so they probably are honestly more bearable after sitting in cold storage for months. Especially compared to better apples that have worse shelf life and he ranked badly lol
Apple cultivars are propagated vegetatively, so there hasn't been any genetic change in 'Red Delicious' since the cultivar was selected from a seedling-grown tree in 1872 (more than 80 years after Benjamin Franklin died - his favorite apple was apparently actually 'Newton Pippin'). If you ever have the opportunity to have a 'Red Delicious' that's actually fresh, you'll find it's a fine apple (though nothing exceptional), and it's mostly their particularly long storage life leading to people eating old apples that makes their flavor and texture so bad.
I typically go for Pazzazz or Cosmic Crisp, and the wife likes Envy. Our fallback is Gala. This is the PNW. As others mentioned it seems like region is a factor.
I'm from Poland, and we have around 70 registered cultivars of apples. I haven't tried all of them, obviously, but my favorite one is Jonagold! So, what can I say? I highly agree 😄
I'm sorry. I think you meant to type out "where's the golden opal?" cause that's actually the best apple. Golden Opal Cosmic Crisp American Dream In that order.
My favourite apple is Mutsu, but I come from Niagara, where they are grown in abundance. The best mutsu apples are large, with a little russeting, and harvested closer to november than septemeber, but still in october. Also they tend to be better on even years than odd years, because they really only grow fruit ever other year. They get mealy from storage.
Red Delicious apples, if left at room temperature for some days or if stored badly can develop a mealy and grainy texture and become quite dry, wich is quite nasty. But if they're fresh or get properly stored they keep a really nice crunch and juicyness. That can explain your bad past experiences with them.
My dad had trees. In last 25 years my dad worked with other local orchards and would sell in the fall at his house (on a main road). He would have upwards of 20 varieties. He could wax poetic about varieties and husbandry of apples. He created his own blend of apples for apple cider and it was amazing. He is in his mid 7os and no longer can handle the work side of it, and with his macular degeneration he can't "see" the differences. I loved watching this as so many of the varieties I knew what to expect before you showed the apple out of the bag. My taste is much like yours. He on the other had loves the traditional and old styles.. the mealier the better (gross) Thank you for the smiles today
I always have to decide which apples are better for cooking over raw eating, many types are way better cooked than uncooked. Not to mention, some are grainy for the hard cider and vinegars.
Gotta try the Envy apple! If you love honeycrisp, you’ll love Envy. In my experience they also are the apple least likely to be grainy, super consistent even when out of season.
I love this video because every single time I see a new apple that I've never had before, I always have to buy it. It's one of my favourite things about travelling as well because you find apples that are not in your area
My favorite apple is a danish winter apple called Ingrid Marie. It’s sweet, tart and has so much flavor, very different from American apples. But Cosmic crisp is a close second
Apple flavor and texture also really depends on when it was picked and for how long it was stored! The more an apple ages, it's flavor will develop in different ways and the texture can/will change. Some apples do not store well and get that mealy texture. HoneyCrisp are expensive because they are super susceptible to lots of apple tree diseases and thus require that premium care to keep fresh. Buy apples from a local orchard fyi, much healthier than the store, organic or not!
Another reason HoneyCrisp are so expensive is because they're a Minnesota apple, and tend to do poorly in climates with warmer winters, like Washington state, or, really, the vast majority of the US. That said, even in Minnesota they have a somewhat lower yield than other apples.
No honey Chris are pretty darn robust, they're expensive because the originals were done with fancy growth to make them huge and then they became popular so now the mini versions that are really just grown under normal conditions are also having an elevated price. However I definitely agree with the picking and storage influencing different varieties but also the specific area that they're produced in also changes the qualities. Soft apples are old apples unless it's an applesauce variety.
Ive never been more disappointed than when you enjoyed the Red Delicious. I was really excited for you to lay into what is in my opinion the worst apple ha.
It's SO weird bc I remember my extremely picky kid sister loving dark red delicious. Like so dark they were a purple colour. They were so dry, bitter and mealy!
I used to think Macintosh were the worst apples until I had one fresh off the tree. I swear it tastes like a strawberry, though I guess floral is probably a more normal description.. Absolutely magical, but they don't last long and lose their flavor/texture pretty quick. If you ever get the opportunity to go apple picking, definitely try a fresh one.
Maybe this is it. In the northern Midwest, we're eating them fresh and I think a lot of us adore them. They do not have such a long shelf life. To me, longer shelf life apples - are all crisp and not taste depth.
I particularly like Honey Crisps, Cosmic Crisps and Mutsu. I definitely feel lucky to try these apples. Really great crunchy snack apples. I feel the first apple that fell on the table/floor was OF COURSE the Granny Smiths lol!
Something has gotta be odd with the Golden Delicious he tried because soft is definitely not one of the descriptors I'd use for them. If anything the ones I have are stiff and rigid enough to be fragile rather than squishable. But then again that is one of the things about apples, you can definitely run into some variance. His golden delicious looked markedly different to the golden delicious that are grown around me.
Agreed. Comparing grocery store apples is really unfair because some of them are probably fresher than others. Golden delicious is one of my favorite apples. The fact that it's so yellow probably means that it wasn't fresh. They're much more green when you get them from the orchard. Same reason why he probably liked red delicious. They're fine when they're fresh, but they're one of the mealiest apples after a couple of days.
There are different types of every cultivar as well. But that golden looked totally normal, just too ripe. If allowed to ripen too long they are probably the softest apple out there.
I'm loving these "Babish Ranks Food" videos! Definitely want to see more! Personally, I love a really crisp, tart apple, so Granny Smith is usually my go to for apple snacking. 💚
The Esopus (es-SOAP-es) was a tribe of Lenape (Delaware) Native Americans who were native to the Catskill Mountains of what is now the Hudson Valley - via Wiki.
If you're a fan of juicy, cripsy and a bit sweeter apples (not tart at all) then I suggest trying Kanzi! It's a Belgian apple (just like some others on this list here, like Jonagold) and also my fave next to Jonagold and Pink Lady :)
Someone who grew up in and lives in New York skipping over Ruby Frost is nuts. Easily my favorite varietal. That said, can't imagine it doing well in this kind of setting -- it'd probably come off too subtle against a bunch of more powerful apples.
They have another variety called CrimsonCrisp that are very similar to HoneyCrisp, but they're cheaper and I think they taste better. I see you mention it at 17:12. A few different farms in Upstate NY grow them!
recently i tried the sweetango apple and it was my favorite apple so far! it's similar to a honeycrisp but had a bit more of the nice sour candy flavor
my favourite is the Red pineapple apple, Rød ananas æble in danish. which come from germany and popular in denmark since it can be grown in the garden without pesticides
The thing about red delicious apples is that they're hit or miss - they can be really mealy and soft, or they can be perfectly crisp and sweet. It's all luck of the draw with them. Also, I don't know if you refrigerated the apples you ate in this video, but most apples are much better chilled to refrigerator temps.
The Red Devil (or it's cousin the Red Moon) makes for a pretty funky pie filling. I once made a half Granny Smith, half Red Moon pie. It was a looker and tasted great too, one of my best ever
Gotta get ginger golds when they are fresh off the tree, they don’t store well. But there flavor, when fresh is amazing! Great video! Can’t argue with any others
Can't believe from the first video I ever watched of yours - Timpano - that I'd be sitting here 7 years later watching you eat 50 kinds of apples. I've always loved food and enjoyed cooking, but your Timpano video is what stoked the fire within to start cooking. Thank you for that.
glad you are trying something new and it seems to work out! its always difficult for content creators to come up with something new to keep it fresh and not have everyone hate it immedietely
Do we have better apples on the west coast? You didn’t try any of my favorites and I haven’t even heard of most of the varieties you tried. I love Cosmic Crisp and Sweet Tango.
I was excited to see you had Evercrisp on the list. Those are a local favorite around here and I look forward to Evercrisp season every year. Fun fact: its a mix of the Fuji and the honeycrisp!
Mcintosh apples are a mixed bag for me. Sometimes they are crisp, but often I get ones which are soft and mealy. I have the same problem with Cortlands. I suspect some of the apples in this were old, and perhaps why Andrew found both the Mcintosh and Cortland to be soft.
Unfortunately, I’ve had the same experience with Macintosh recently. Oddly within the same five pound bag, almost as though they were entirely different crops. I hope that it was an anomaly!@@veraxis9961
I had a crabapple tree outside my house growing up, was quite common in the area. Genuinely never knew you could eat them, always assumed they were some kind of poison without processing. Glad to know I was *not* missing out.
There are a lot of different types of crabapple, but they're generally not tasty to eat as apples without some other kind of processing or preserving. Because of how apples grow and don't breed true you could also figure most apples grown from seed may be considered bad apples
@@AlanMillerFencepost ik im a little late, but id like to pitch in my exp. A friend of mine had a Crab apple tree, and they were great, crisp, but def sour with a hint of sweetness (i love sour apples). i went out to pick a bunch bc the tree produced so many that no one could eat them all.
Really interesting reading the lineages of certain apples and how most of the popular ones are all related to each other. Jonagold is a cross of Golden Delicious and Jonathan, the latter of which is a variant of a Esopus Spitzenburg (which is a supposidly a favorite of Thomas Jefferson).
I own an apple orchard. Snow apples are the best but they need to get hit with cold weather to sweeten, created in Quebec. We are debating on cutting down all of our Red Delicious trees because nobody buys them anymore.
@@CrashBandiii The best pies are made with a mix of different apples. Some break down and some hold shape. Also we are just a small family orchard and would need a special license to sell baked goods so we just stick to apples, cider, and honey.
@@Ben-gb9dv that makes sense, pity it's so cold there. Nuts like macadamia are great cash crops. We are seeing lots of citrus farms in our country ripping down the orange trees and planting macadamias instead
Damn sounds like I gotta try a cosmic crisp. What do you guys want to see me review next?
It's okay. It wouldn't have been fair to the other apples, I mean name another apple that was perfected over 20 years
Forgot everything else and eat a SWEETANGO!! Best ever. Hard to find outside of Minnesota though.
Some of the hits from when I was in college: Cup ramen/noodles, frozen chicken nuggets, hot pockets, wee- uh brownie mixes
A perfect apple is a perfect food. On a spectrum of Tart to Sweetness, I wonder which most people prefer. A note to your editor: I think it is "McIntosh" not Macintosh, which the former was S. Job's favorite apple. They spelled the computer with an "a" to not be confused with McIntosh company who made audio equipment.
All of the lunchables perhaps?
Ranking every onion?
Just Babish eating onions likes apples.
Only if he dresses up as Shrek
red onion underrated imo
I would watch this
@@CBMX_GAMINGonly for salads
Give a Cosmic Crisp a try. They managed to remove the browning enzyme from the apple so it bakes excellently, and tastes amazing to boot.
A regulation apple one might say
@@Kalledussinregulation apple for a regulation listener.
@@benzen5190 guess I'm a comment leaver now though 😮
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Definitely the best apple
Honey Crisp, Pink Ladies, and Cosmic Crisps rank at the top of my list. And I totally agree that getting them from the market is different than getting them from the orchard direct. I have never, ever tasted a strawberry from a supermarket, that came remotely close to the goodnes of first pick of the season, direct from the field, that day. Apples aren't quite so dramatic, but still applies.
I discovered Cosmic Crisps about a year ago. Before then I was a die-hard Honeycrisper - now I'm 100% cosmics.
those are also my top 5, including sweetango!! highly recommend if you like honeycrisp and cosmic crisp. i get mine at trader joes
Grocery store apples sit in warehouses for up to 9 months, so that's not exactly surprising.
Ive gotten a honeycrisp from the orchird that invented them and it was honestly on a different level than any apple ive ever had
I was so sad he didn’t try Cosmic Crisp - signed, a Washingtonian
The problem with taste testing apples (or any fruit, really) is their harvest window varies over 3-5 months depending on location, and apples are stored in cold storage for many months and parsed out commercially over time. The apple you could be eating may be 3-4 months old, or from an entirely different hemisphere of Earth (this is how we have apples year-round, folks!). So, the mealiness of apples is because you’re comparing apples that are 1, 2, 3 and 4 months old to each other. It isn’t possible to compare apple varieties at the same relative freshness. You may just be eating a REALLY old apple, which isn’t fair, but that’s commercial agriculture.
I agree i learned this with Ambrosia apples where in the Fall months they taste phenomenal, but the rest of the year not so much. I usually change my apple buying habits to better match what time of the year we are in to account for their freshness.
Yeah so many of his samples were clearly just past their prime
Give me an Empire or a Macoun fresh off the tree any day.
And another thing, we kinda depend on the orchard to pick the apple at exactly the right time. That doesn't always happen.
50 apples? He kept away an entire healthcare system worth of doctors away
Came for this joke. Leaving happy
What a monster
Fun fact: that saying was created during Prohibition, when growing apples for cider was discouraged and eating apples were grown instead.
It's not even 2 months' worth! Lolol
@@suicune690The irony being that, if the Oversimplified video on Prohibition is anything, doctors still had an exemption to distribute alcohol for medical purposes so conveniently there were a big increase in alcohol prescriptions in the 1920s
Most of the "bad" apples are not bad per se, they're just used for other things rather than eating it directly (e.g.: juice, cider, vinegar, cooking, etc)
yes but I think he’s just ranking them from raw taste alone
He's also ranking based on issues that are found in apples that are past their prime. No apple is inherently mealy or soft.
@@FortyHurts Oh yeah? You've had all the apples in all their ranges of ripeness?
@@FortyHurtsyeah, I came here to back this up. It was weird seeing the reviews for some varieties boil down to old apples. (source: my family's orchard)
@@FortyHurts That is absolutely not true. You can tell when Red Delicious and Golden Delicious in particular have been overbred for hardiness because even the fresh ones with a nice snap to the skin still taste like cornmeal.
Depending on when this was shot, the meely texture and softness of a lot of the apples is a sign of the apple being old/kept in climate controlled (frozen) storage. Some of these apples are harvested as early as September (ginger gold) and some as late as November. Although a great idea for a video, it is one that should be done in the fall and in partnership with an orchard/s to know you are getting the freshest examples
Yeah, this was exactly my thought as I was watching this. This is like as much of a shelf life comparison as it is an apple variety comparison, which is why the Red Delicious didn’t fail too much while others did.
This
Most of us get our apples from grocery stores, so this is more accurate to the average American's experience.
And when is the last time you saw most of these varieties at the store? These were clearly purchased from a farmers market or farm specializing in unusual varieties (or at least the majority of them were). I agree that it was a GREAT tasting for eating apples, but that was never actually stated, and I really was curious about storage, as it can drastically change how an apple eats (most modern varieties have been bred for it, but old heritage varieties have not). @@marcpeterson1092
@@marcpeterson1092not if you're in NE, SE, or MW
It's the guy from the math problem.
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If Babish has 50 apples and he crushes 5 of them, how many apples does Babish have left?
The most slept on comment I’ve ever seen
@@Jinxx9081 45 whole apples an 5 crushed
The best apple I ever had came from a bushel sitting outside a fence, on a road in Connecticut. I never knew the variety. I love Pacific Rose.🤗🤗
The thing about Cortlands is that they are unbelievably different when you pick them fresh from a tree: crisp, tart, and juicy. A grocery store Cortland, often even a farmers' market Cortland, will probably have been off the tree for long enough to have their textures change dramatically. When picked fresh and eaten within a week (or two if refrigerated), they are absolutely amazing apples. I've described a fresh Cortland as "a Granny Smith without the malice" because they're just as crisp, very nearly as tart, just as juicy, but with a thinner skin and a bit better acid-sweet balance.
I only really eat them during apple-picking season and they are pure heaven.
Thank goodness someone else knows!
Same with Jonathans - fresh picked, they're fantastic
Yeah. Many cultivars are meant for travel and not for flavor. Some are meant for eating from up the street, if not in your own yard. My garden broccoli would have looked like wet compost, if I drove it across town. But it's awesome right out the yard.
The other great thing about Cortlands is that the flesh doesn't brown! It's a great tasting apple for applesauce.
@@arloahart Very true! I use them in apple butter and most of the color comes from the spices and the other apples I add.
I'm so sad to see that he didn't try the Envy apple. It reminds me of the original Brother's Grimm story of Snow White. The apple was described as partially pale on one side and then red on the other. The pale side was supposed to be "poison" because of the lack of color (which is why the evil queen ate from that side while she had poisoned the red side). The first time I tried it I said that I'd risk being poisoned over that apple, too. I'm not a red apple person, but that's definitely my favorite.
Envy Apples are definitely the best
@@acac7730you like my apples ayy 😏
They are delicious 😋
Same! My mom sometimes buys 50lb at a time from a wholesale place…
Envy had decent flavor but they're a bit too hard for that perfect crunchy bite. SweeTango was just another level above the rest when I tried 34 during peak season.
Babish really let the intrusive thoughts win when it came to crushing that apple
And eating the sticker.
Impulse. Intrusive thoughts are a different thing, and are a psychiatric symptom. It's like saying any negative feeling is a panic attack.
@@haniapopowska8966you can eat produce stickers they are entirely non toxic and made with food safe products even the glue.
As a resident Bostonian, for me nothing beats a Macintosh fresh picked. Crisp, tart and bright, with a touch of sweetness. Perfect for snacking!
Also as a resident Bostonian, I was kinda surprised to see the Roxbury Russet, I used to live on Mission Hill and they literally littered the streets/parks depending where. I can't eat them though, unfortunately. Apples will only remain a fond memory of childhood, lost in time.
"...and whats an bad apple"
*Bad apple slowly starts palying in the background"
Cosmic crisp is one of the best snacking apples in my book, super crisp and sweet. (Edit: I put crisp twice originally lol)
Yes I can confirm cosmic all the way
I'll die on the hill that cosmic is THE best apple available lol
Cosmic Crisps have a chemical taste to me. Honeycrisps, Envys, Snapdragons, and the other more common varieties don't.
Cosmic Crisp is amazing
I was waiting for that one to show up. Maybe they didn't have any in his area.
Id love to see babish try the weird cross bred fruits. Things like grapples, cotton candy grapes etc etc
Grapples aren't hybrids, they're regular apples that are soaked in Methyl anthranilate, the main component of artificial grape flavor.
@@brianmccarrier1605literally just soaked in bird stop haha. Not kidding
@@EndureTyrant Nileblue viewer I see
@@Killerkraft975 absolutely. One of the more interesting videos imo.
Neither of those are fancy weird hybrids. What of them is a weird processing thing and the other one is just a newer variety to be available in the United States. The United States is super far behind the rest of the world on our grape varieties because of some disease issues that occurred. Most Americans have absolutely no idea how incredibly sweet and the incredible amount of variety of flavors of grapes exist in the rest of the world.
Eating apples that have been in cold storage for months I think makes the rankings skewed. Some apples have really great shelf lives and others do not. My favorite apple ever is called Sansa. It’s an early season apple with a VERY short shelf life. They maybe keep for 2 days before they start to get soft. But when they’re fresh they are very crisp and snappy without the density of a honeycrisp with a very thin papery skin that’s sort of pink in color. They’re very sweet with a flavor that is very pear like. If anyone ever goes apple picking (in the northeast) in the early season I HIGHLY recommend trying one. But be careful buying them in a store because again their shelf life is INCREDIBLY short.
Came here to say exactly that. I worked in an orchard and some apple you find in grocery stores that are meh are amazing freshly picked. It can be the opposite, some apples need to be left in storage before consuming.
0:11 *Bad Apple starts playing*
weird 2hus
As I grew up on Macintoshes from the VTC orchards, I will never be capable of thinking of them as anything but the Best Apples Ever.
Macintosh are some of my favorites
Same here, calling it a bad apple just because it's soft is crazy to me
Favorite apple 🍎super juicy, perfect combo of sweet & tart, semi soft so it doesn’t hurt your teeth.. greener ones have a tarter taste I like, redder ones more sweet . I like a nice mix green and red Macintosh 👌
Store bought never tastes right to me, but when I get them from the local orchards every fall, they're by far my favorite. They really need to be fresh.
No idea what Macintoshes Babish has been eating. I think they're great.
There's a relatively new apple called Wild Twist. It's a combination of the Honeycrisp and Pink Lady. The best of both worlds and absolutely stunning.
I'll have to give it a go!
Oh! Bred the Honeycrisp with one of its parent apples? Niiice.
@@TroubleDuo01 The Pink lady is not a parent apple of the Honeycrisp. The parent apples of the Honeycrisp are the Keepsake apple and an unreleased UMN apple (MN1627).
Oh, I hadn't heard WA-64's market name yet! I'll keep and eye out for some next I hit the market.
yoo my two favorite apples combined?
I watched this whole video for the cosmic crisp. I am devastated.
I’m so heartbroken rn, it is the BEST APPLE
Right!?
Also no Opal, Sugarbee, or Envy. Kinda strange omissions.
My guess is heavy regionality? I get cosmic crisp and envy in my areas farmers markets but probably only about half of these have shown up. And my hometown is like THE apple capitol. Imo.
@@TheEarlofManwhich most Costcos have them.
Problem with the red delicious is that it’s been overbred for over a century resulting in the infamous “catchers mitt filled with coffee grinds” texture. Benjamin Franklin’s favorite apple has been overbred to the point where it’s just like a crab apple now
I was surprised he liked it. In my memory it’s got tough, bitter skin, and mealy flesh with a watery flavour.
@@zetizaharahe probably liked it because none of the apples are fresh. They’re bred for long shelf life so they probably are honestly more bearable after sitting in cold storage for months. Especially compared to better apples that have worse shelf life and he ranked badly lol
Red delicious apples always taste great in the late fall/early winter and maybe it's just nostalgia from elementary school but I love them 😅
What do you mean “overbred”? Apples are cloned.
Apple cultivars are propagated vegetatively, so there hasn't been any genetic change in 'Red Delicious' since the cultivar was selected from a seedling-grown tree in 1872 (more than 80 years after Benjamin Franklin died - his favorite apple was apparently actually 'Newton Pippin'). If you ever have the opportunity to have a 'Red Delicious' that's actually fresh, you'll find it's a fine apple (though nothing exceptional), and it's mostly their particularly long storage life leading to people eating old apples that makes their flavor and texture so bad.
gotta do a part 2 add in the green dragon, lemonade, sweet tango, jazz, rocket and of course the cosmic crisp to the list
Lemonades are lovely.
I wanted to see what he thought of jazz :(
I was hoping someone would mention green dragon. It's very hard to find, at least in CA
Sweetango, jazz, rocket and cosmic crisp are my favorites I was hoping he would 😢
Jazz are by far my favorite apples! Bummer they weren’t a part of this, at least not yet ;)
I typically go for Pazzazz or Cosmic Crisp, and the wife likes Envy. Our fallback is Gala. This is the PNW. As others mentioned it seems like region is a factor.
Big miss not having Cosmic Crisp. A superior apple 🍎 🤤
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Black diamond apple better
I'm from Poland, and we have around 70 registered cultivars of apples. I haven't tried all of them, obviously, but my favorite one is Jonagold! So, what can I say? I highly agree 😄
Can you name a few? Very curious!
Wheres cosmic crisp? I can't beleive you left out the best apple in the world
You're right. Can't watch anymore...
I was thinking the same thing, comics are awesome.
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Haha I commented the same thing.. I eat a costco box worth almost every week
I'm sorry. I think you meant to type out "where's the golden opal?" cause that's actually the best apple.
Golden Opal
Cosmic Crisp
American Dream
In that order.
My favourite apple is Mutsu, but I come from Niagara, where they are grown in abundance. The best mutsu apples are large, with a little russeting, and harvested closer to november than septemeber, but still in october. Also they tend to be better on even years than odd years, because they really only grow fruit ever other year. They get mealy from storage.
US side or Canadian side? Surprised I've never seen these before
Red Delicious apples, if left at room temperature for some days or if stored badly can develop a mealy and grainy texture and become quite dry, wich is quite nasty. But if they're fresh or get properly stored they keep a really nice crunch and juicyness. That can explain your bad past experiences with them.
My dad had trees. In last 25 years my dad worked with other local orchards and would sell in the fall at his house (on a main road). He would have upwards of 20 varieties. He could wax poetic about varieties and husbandry of apples.
He created his own blend of apples for apple cider and it was amazing. He is in his mid 7os and no longer can handle the work side of it, and with his macular degeneration he can't "see" the differences.
I loved watching this as so many of the varieties I knew what to expect before you showed the apple out of the bag.
My taste is much like yours. He on the other had loves the traditional and old styles.. the mealier the better (gross)
Thank you for the smiles today
I always have to decide which apples are better for cooking over raw eating, many types are way better cooked than uncooked.
Not to mention, some are grainy for the hard cider and vinegars.
Gotta try the Envy apple! If you love honeycrisp, you’ll love Envy. In my experience they also are the apple least likely to be grainy, super consistent even when out of season.
I was waiting the whole time (dedicated to not spoiling) for Envy! My absolute fave.
Envy apples are great. They do have sorta a pear taste to them
Envy is the apple GOAT
I love this video because every single time I see a new apple that I've never had before, I always have to buy it. It's one of my favourite things about travelling as well because you find apples that are not in your area
I just know that babish had the healthiest BM he’s had in YEARS after 50 apples worth of fiber.
Gotta cross this one off the old "Vid Ideas" List! haha, great vid dood.
Take some apples and instead identify better uses for each. Pies, ciders, apple sauces/butters, etc.
Really surprising that you didn’t like both the Jonathan and the Golden delicious, but your favorite was the cross between them, the Jonagold!
My favorite apple is a danish winter apple called Ingrid Marie. It’s sweet, tart and has so much flavor, very different from American apples. But Cosmic crisp is a close second
My fav that I’ve tried so far is the Cosmic Crisp, 2nd is the Pink Lady.
We at my work have been having a month long debate about the best apple. This is EXTREMELY helpful in gaslighting my coworkers. Thank you.
Granny Smith apples are my personal favorite for eating. I love the texture and snap of them, plus the flavor.
Cosmic crisp is the best apple❤
Apple flavor and texture also really depends on when it was picked and for how long it was stored! The more an apple ages, it's flavor will develop in different ways and the texture can/will change. Some apples do not store well and get that mealy texture. HoneyCrisp are expensive because they are super susceptible to lots of apple tree diseases and thus require that premium care to keep fresh. Buy apples from a local orchard fyi, much healthier than the store, organic or not!
Another reason HoneyCrisp are so expensive is because they're a Minnesota apple, and tend to do poorly in climates with warmer winters, like Washington state, or, really, the vast majority of the US. That said, even in Minnesota they have a somewhat lower yield than other apples.
No honey Chris are pretty darn robust, they're expensive because the originals were done with fancy growth to make them huge and then they became popular so now the mini versions that are really just grown under normal conditions are also having an elevated price. However I definitely agree with the picking and storage influencing different varieties but also the specific area that they're produced in also changes the qualities. Soft apples are old apples unless it's an applesauce variety.
Cosmic Crisp is my absolute FAVE.
Ive never been more disappointed than when you enjoyed the Red Delicious. I was really excited for you to lay into what is in my opinion the worst apple ha.
I hate red delicious!
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The absolute best apple I've ever tasted is a heritage variety from Poland called the Opal. It's bright yellow and just delightful.
Opals also don't turn brown.
Yes! I rank opal up there with pink lady and honeycrisp. My favorites.
Opal is one of my favorites! Hard to find in my area
My favorite apple as well. It seems like harvest is small so difficult to find and only around for a short time.
Opal is my favorite all time
I tried an Envy apple recently and it became my new favorite from the first bite. Highly recommend!
I feel like the red delicious you have is a hybrid made to taste better. The ones here are a dull dark red with no speckles and are pure grainy mush.
It's SO weird bc I remember my extremely picky kid sister loving dark red delicious. Like so dark they were a purple colour. They were so dry, bitter and mealy!
My favorite store apple is Opal! Gold color with some russeting and great texture with almost a floral flavor.
I used to think Macintosh were the worst apples until I had one fresh off the tree. I swear it tastes like a strawberry, though I guess floral is probably a more normal description.. Absolutely magical, but they don't last long and lose their flavor/texture pretty quick. If you ever get the opportunity to go apple picking, definitely try a fresh one.
Maybe this is it. In the northern Midwest, we're eating them fresh and I think a lot of us adore them. They do not have such a long shelf life. To me, longer shelf life apples - are all crisp and not taste depth.
Pink lady/pink crisp are the best apples. Slightly sweet, slightly sour, very crispy, very juicy. Perfection
100% agree
Fr, finally tried pink lady apples this summer and I was changed
Absolutely, the best apples I've ever had were pink ladies.
Only had a few of these. My personal favorite is the Fuji. Nice and sweet. Great snacking apple.
My favorites in order...
HoneyCrisp, SweetTango, PinkLady, Snapdragon.
I completely agree, cosmic crisp is up in my first spot tho…them are insane, also envy
Rave and Cosmic are my go to apples.
I particularly like Honey Crisps, Cosmic Crisps and Mutsu. I definitely feel lucky to try these apples. Really great crunchy snack apples.
I feel the first apple that fell on the table/floor was OF COURSE the Granny Smiths lol!
Opal apples are my favorite. Crunchy sweet and golden 😊
Something has gotta be odd with the Golden Delicious he tried because soft is definitely not one of the descriptors I'd use for them. If anything the ones I have are stiff and rigid enough to be fragile rather than squishable. But then again that is one of the things about apples, you can definitely run into some variance. His golden delicious looked markedly different to the golden delicious that are grown around me.
Agreed. Comparing grocery store apples is really unfair because some of them are probably fresher than others. Golden delicious is one of my favorite apples. The fact that it's so yellow probably means that it wasn't fresh. They're much more green when you get them from the orchard. Same reason why he probably liked red delicious. They're fine when they're fresh, but they're one of the mealiest apples after a couple of days.
There are different types of every cultivar as well. But that golden looked totally normal, just too ripe. If allowed to ripen too long they are probably the softest apple out there.
I'm loving these "Babish Ranks Food" videos! Definitely want to see more!
Personally, I love a really crisp, tart apple, so Granny Smith is usually my go to for apple snacking. 💚
Fully agree I love a granny Smith apple
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Have you tried them in an apple pie - they turn slightly floral when cooked. Amazing.
I’d love to see you use some of the “bad apples” in their intended uses like crab apples. 😅
The Esopus (es-SOAP-es) was a tribe of Lenape (Delaware) Native Americans who were native to the Catskill Mountains of what is now the Hudson Valley - via Wiki.
I've heard those Rome apples are kings of baking apples.
Also I've heard Goldrush is amazing for cider.
I love how Kendall didn’t discourage you from eating stickers and instead encouraged you to try a different approach lol
My grandma introduced me to Fujis and they’ve been my favorite ever since 😊
If you're a fan of juicy, cripsy and a bit sweeter apples (not tart at all) then I suggest trying Kanzi! It's a Belgian apple (just like some others on this list here, like Jonagold) and also my fave next to Jonagold and Pink Lady :)
Yes! A cross between Braeburn and Gala, which were my two go-to apples before Kanzi.
Where is the Cosmic Crisp? It’s *the* regulation Apple!
Wow. My favorite, Sweet Tango, didn’t make the list. Sad.
Cosmic Crisp and nothing else.
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Someone who grew up in and lives in New York skipping over Ruby Frost is nuts. Easily my favorite varietal.
That said, can't imagine it doing well in this kind of setting -- it'd probably come off too subtle against a bunch of more powerful apples.
Apples (and Rainier cherries) are a huge reason why living in Washington is so wonderful.
And why I wish he tried our lovely Cosmic Crisp 😢
same situation with michigan. apples and cherries
Jonagold apples have been my favorite since i was a little kid, this just validated everything for me
Interesting outcome. In The Netherlands, Jonagold is considered pretty plain and it's also one of the cheapest ones you can get.
They have another variety called CrimsonCrisp that are very similar to HoneyCrisp, but they're cheaper and I think they taste better.
I see you mention it at 17:12.
A few different farms in Upstate NY grow them!
Honey crisp is 100% the only apple I eat now.
I really like these videos. Keeps my attention the whole way through and it's quite educational. Had no idea some of these apples existed
I love all the videos with the crew talking from behind the camera they really do add a lot of fun banter 😂
recently i tried the sweetango apple and it was my favorite apple so far! it's similar to a honeycrisp but had a bit more of the nice sour candy flavor
my favourite is the Red pineapple apple, Rød ananas æble in danish. which come from germany and popular in denmark since it can be grown in the garden without pesticides
Det er også et lækkert et. Jeg kan også godt life gråsten æbler
The thing about red delicious apples is that they're hit or miss - they can be really mealy and soft, or they can be perfectly crisp and sweet. It's all luck of the draw with them.
Also, I don't know if you refrigerated the apples you ate in this video, but most apples are much better chilled to refrigerator temps.
The Red Devil (or it's cousin the Red Moon) makes for a pretty funky pie filling. I once made a half Granny Smith, half Red Moon pie. It was a looker and tasted great too, one of my best ever
Gotta get ginger golds when they are fresh off the tree, they don’t store well. But there flavor, when fresh is amazing! Great video! Can’t argue with any others
Def gotta try that cosmic crisp like others said
But also the autumn glory!
i wonder how many whole apples you ate by taking one bite of 50 apples
looked like decent sized bites. so 10-15, maybe a bit less, especially if you count that giant summer pippin
My favorite is actually Macintosh..great for baking and great on its own. Macoun is actually a Macintosh hybrid.
Yes! Macintosh are my go-to apples for pies, crisps, and eating as snacks.
WE ARE A COSMIC CRISP FAMILY HERE.
And a apple podcast for that matter
The regulation apple is the cosmic crisp!
It never seems to sell here. I keep a few because they last a crazy long time, but I always find it a bit too sweet.
@@TheCakeWasALie2 i was hoping for a fellow regulation listener to show up
@@glenduffy860you are so close to becoming a comment leaver
The guy in all the math problems
Fun fact! Most apples were developed in the state of Minnesota!
I once bought a bag of McIntosch apples that were surprisingly crispy. Honestly some of the best apples ive ever had
I always liked Jonathans and McIntosh for their tartness. I don't like sweet apples.
Can't believe from the first video I ever watched of yours - Timpano - that I'd be sitting here 7 years later watching you eat 50 kinds of apples.
I've always loved food and enjoyed cooking, but your Timpano video is what stoked the fire within to start cooking. Thank you for that.
glad you are trying something new and it seems to work out!
its always difficult for content creators to come up with something new to keep it fresh and not have everyone hate it immedietely
Do we have better apples on the west coast? You didn’t try any of my favorites and I haven’t even heard of most of the varieties you tried. I love Cosmic Crisp and Sweet Tango.
I was excited to see you had Evercrisp on the list. Those are a local favorite around here and I look forward to Evercrisp season every year. Fun fact: its a mix of the Fuji and the honeycrisp!
Sweet Tangoes are the best apples. Only around in the fall though.
My personal favourite is the Mcintosh.
Crisp, easy to eat, super sweet like candy and next to granny smiths, they make the best apple crumble or pie.
Yes, precisely this.
Mcintosh apples are a mixed bag for me. Sometimes they are crisp, but often I get ones which are soft and mealy. I have the same problem with Cortlands. I suspect some of the apples in this were old, and perhaps why Andrew found both the Mcintosh and Cortland to be soft.
Unfortunately, I’ve had the same experience with Macintosh recently. Oddly within the same five pound bag, almost as though they were entirely different crops. I hope that it was an anomaly!@@veraxis9961
This is correct. Babish is wrong on the Mac.
My favorite is one not listed here: Opal.
Cross between a Golden delicious and a Topaz. One of the sweetest I've ever had.
I had a crabapple tree outside my house growing up, was quite common in the area. Genuinely never knew you could eat them, always assumed they were some kind of poison without processing.
Glad to know I was *not* missing out.
There are a lot of different types of crabapple, but they're generally not tasty to eat as apples without some other kind of processing or preserving. Because of how apples grow and don't breed true you could also figure most apples grown from seed may be considered bad apples
@@AlanMillerFencepost ik im a little late, but id like to pitch in my exp. A friend of mine had a Crab apple tree, and they were great, crisp, but def sour with a hint of sweetness (i love sour apples). i went out to pick a bunch bc the tree produced so many that no one could eat them all.
Really interesting reading the lineages of certain apples and how most of the popular ones are all related to each other. Jonagold is a cross of Golden Delicious and Jonathan, the latter of which is a variant of a Esopus Spitzenburg (which is a supposidly a favorite of Thomas Jefferson).
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I'm sitting there really watching a guy eating apple for 30 minutes
Same
I own an apple orchard. Snow apples are the best but they need to get hit with cold weather to sweeten, created in Quebec. We are debating on cutting down all of our Red Delicious trees because nobody buys them anymore.
Should create a killer pie or something with them. Longer shelf life product might help you move them?
@@CrashBandiii The best pies are made with a mix of different apples. Some break down and some hold shape. Also we are just a small family orchard and would need a special license to sell baked goods so we just stick to apples, cider, and honey.
@@Ben-gb9dv that makes sense, pity it's so cold there. Nuts like macadamia are great cash crops. We are seeing lots of citrus farms in our country ripping down the orange trees and planting macadamias instead
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Crabapples are notoriously bad for eating.
however, they are amazing for making semi-dry ciders!
My favorite yellow apple is opal gold. My favorite tart apple is granny smith. My favorite red apple is honey crisp.
My favorite apple is Ambrosia, although I haven’t tried all 50 of them (not even half of them!)