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["Eddie Earles" <jas39a@earthlink.net>]

My apples snap.  My Enterprise and Stayman snap like juicy obsidian.  This
time of year--when it cools off at night, down into the 30's, but gets warm
and sunny during the day.....boy, are they good, straight off the tree!!

Eddie Earles


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Angermayer" <hangermayer@isp.com>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2008 3:24 PM
Subject: [NAFEX] Apple tastes


> Alan's good post on the Cameo apple promted me to write something I've
> discovered about my own apple tastes. This post may generate a lot of
> disagreement.  That's OK, I've got a lot to learn about apples.  But as a
> novice, I've still been ordering apple samplers from Applesource.  One
thing
> I've discovered is that the most important apple characteristic for me is
> snap.  Why is this a revelation?  Because snap doesn't seem to be given
> much weight in apple descriptions.  Apples are typically characterized as
> sweet, balanced, or tart.  For my part, I think apples should be
> characterized mainly as crisp or yielding.  I've always known texture is a
> pretty big thing to me, but all the apple descriptions had me a little
> confused about what I really like in an apple.  Finally after tasting a
> couple dozen different apples from applesource, I realized generally the
> crisper the apple the more I liked it.  Whether it be sweet, balanced or
> slightly tart.  Thinking back, my three favorite (storebought) apples have
> been Honeycrisp, Fuji, and Pink Lady.  Since two are sweet and one is
tart,
> the common thread is crispness.  Juiciness is probably a close second for
an
> important characteristic.
>
> I wonder that I'm not all alone in this regard.  Pink Lady, Fuji, and
> Honeycrisp have continued to gain market share.  I understand Fuji is the
> number one apple in Japan and China.  Japan's number three apple is Mutsu
(I
> don't know what the second place apple is).  Mutsu is also know for
> crispness, being an offspring of Fuji.
>
> I know all apples are probably crisp when picked perfectly and eaten right
> away, but I'm refering to maximum crispness with less than perfect
> conditions.  I think sweet, balanced, and tart are still very valuable
> descriptions, I'm just saying they perhaps, take a backseat to snap.
>
> Mark
> KS
>
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