Red "Delicious" Apples - Page 4

Mixie · 02-03-2007, 05:00 AM

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Originally Posted by footfootfoot

no deterioration if kept at 99% humidity and 32f.

99% humidity? What do you do, drown them in your fridge?

To me, the ideal apple for baking apple pies is the "Goudreinet", or golden rennet. If they're out of season, I go with Elstar. I don't often eat apples, but if I do I like both the Grannies and the Jonagold.

Griff · 02-03-2007, 06:37 AM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Stayman - Winesap.

Do you like those in particular? I'm going to expand my fruit trees after I put up a goat fence.... man needs his cheese as well.

xoxoxoBruce · 02-03-2007, 08:33 AM

Yes, great for cooking, slightly tart tang eating. Not popular because of the mottled skin makes them poor for still life painting unless you're really good.

footfootfoot · 02-03-2007, 05:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Mixie

99% humidity? What do you do, drown them in your fridge?

To me, the ideal apple for baking apple pies is the "Goudreinet", or golden rennet. If they're out of season, I go with Elstar. I don't often eat apples, but if I do I like both the Grannies and the Jonagold.

damp cloth, plastic bag. The orchards keep them sprayed with water all the time. It is damp in the storage area.

footfootfoot · 02-03-2007, 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Flint

I'm not afraid to tackle the tough issues facing this great nation. I won't bow down to Big Apple and their fat-cat friends in Congress.

footfootfoot · 02-03-2007, 05:41 PM

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Originally Posted by monster

Red Delicious: the Britney Spears of apples.

Smack! haha

footfootfoot · 02-03-2007, 05:42 PM

Ya'lls are gonna have to get the book "botany of desire" for some real apple talk. Great book.

Undertoad · 02-03-2007, 07:49 PM

If you liked that you'll like Mr Pollan's piece in last Sunday's NY Times.

footfootfoot · 02-03-2007, 08:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

If you liked that you'll like Mr Pollan's piece in last Sunday's NY Times.

Awesome. It kind of bummed me out though. Even though I eat remarkably closely to what he talks about, I still am far away from how I ate in my 20's. More vegetables then.

Lately, we've been eating a lot more meat, though it is all "organic-ish" meaning I know the farmers who raised the meat, I helped slaughter some of it, and I know the animals didn't eat anything but food. ie no hormones or antibiotics. (one cow did die of a bad cold however...) The farmers aren't USDA certified as organic, not that that has any meaning.

So now I am thinking I need to eat more broccoli and carrots. I could go for a good Cobb salad right now. God, those are great.

BigV · 02-03-2007, 09:22 PM

Had some of these at the end of last season. Honeycrisp apples from the grower's backyard. Now I'm not an apple guy. I prefer citrus, but I left the land of citrus for the land of stone fruits and apples, and I'm trying to adapt. This apple will do it. God it was delicious. I had maybe ten.

glatt · 02-03-2007, 09:58 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Stayman - Winesap.

Those are good too, but I've never seen one in a grocery store, and the oldest one I've ever eaten had been picked about a week earlier. Gotta go to the source to get one.

xoxoxoBruce · 02-04-2007, 12:22 AM

True, never in the store, only orchards have them because they aren't grown in great quantity. I'm fortunate to be close.

Beestie · 02-04-2007, 12:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Granny Smith apples are the only acceptable kind. All the other species are tools of the devil.

Yep. I slice 'em up (never peeled) and squeeze a tiny bit of lime juice and shake a good amount of salt on them. Deeeee-licious!!

Hey, that's it! Green Delicious!

Hmmmm.. maybe not.

How come "Red Delicious" sounds so much better than "Green Delicious?"

footfootfoot · 02-04-2007, 02:19 PM

Red is passion
Green is envy, and sea sickness

We planted a Honey Crisp and a Northern Spy. I plan to espalier them along a fence.

xoxoxoBruce · 02-04-2007, 02:28 PM

I don't think this is the proper forum to discuss your perversions you picked up in France.

02-03-2007, 08:33 AM	#48
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Yes, great for cooking, slightly tart tang eating. Not popular because of the mottled skin makes them poor for still life painting unless you're really good. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

02-03-2007, 05:42 PM	#52
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	Ya'lls are gonna have to get the book "botany of desire" for some real apple talk. Great book. __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

02-03-2007, 09:22 PM	#55
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	Had some of these at the end of last season. Honeycrisp apples from the grower's backyard. Now I'm not an apple guy. I prefer citrus, but I left the land of citrus for the land of stone fruits and apples, and I'm trying to adapt. This apple will do it. God it was delicious. I had maybe ten. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

02-04-2007, 12:22 AM	#57
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	True, never in the store, only orchards have them because they aren't grown in great quantity. I'm fortunate to be close. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

02-04-2007, 02:19 PM	#59
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	Red is passion Green is envy, and sea sickness We planted a Honey Crisp and a Northern Spy. I plan to espalier them along a fence. __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

02-03-2007, 07:49 PM	#53
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	If you liked that you'll like Mr Pollan's piece in last Sunday's NY Times.

02-04-2007, 02:28 PM	#60
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	I don't think this is the proper forum to discuss your perversions you picked up in France. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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