I visited an apple orchard about 10 years ago when my daughter was a kindergardener. The orchard manager told me that the deer that raided his orchard had a decided preference for Honeycrisps.
@@burtan2000 You can boil apples. That's how applesauce is made, but you do it in a small amount of water so the juice isn't lost. Grilled fruit is typically delicious, so grilled apples would be great. Grilled lemons and grilled pineapple are awesome.
I don’t know if anyone else took the time to read the newspaper articles during the spinning newspaper section of the video, but whoever wrote those, I salute your hard work.
I was in a group of people asked what their fave apple was and after I said undoubtedly Honeycrisp, someone else felt compelled to say, "no, I always really just like Red Delicious." ...right...
Honeycrisp are the apples that made me realize there are more to apples than I previously imagined. Smitten is my fav but incredibly hard to find and not in season very long, with Envy and HC coming in close second.
I find Honeycrisps to be a little watery. It's good, but I don't want to eat a lot of it. I also don't want to pay $2 an apple for it either. I love Pink Lady, Macintosh, or Braeburns.
Try Ambrosia apples if you haven't. I find them better than HC for eating raw -- especially alongside some nicely aged cheddar -- but HC is a much better apple for cooked applications with its more sweet-tart flavor.
@@fourthgirl If by watery, you mean that it has a tendency to exude a lot of juice, that's by design. Honeycrisp apple cells are bigger than most, so they hold more juice. If by watery you mean they taste diluted and not very sweet, then you probably got a bad batch.
NPR is very informative it sucks they've made themselves so political. I'm not a leftie but I can listen to one out of every three This American Life's when they just present interesting stories that are entertaining and thought provoking. The other times it's just them pushing for gay trans baby rights and arguing for late term abortions. The idea of them being an "intellectual" channel while being so obviously close minded and one sided in their views is a joke. There's no objectivity in their channel. They just push their agenda and basically say if you have any different ideas than us you must be stupid.
A video about mealy Red Delicious apples with abominably stupid apples deserves as few views as possible (I couldn't stand until even the 2:00 mark) and as many down votes as possible.
@@silloweet They are big, I'll give you that. But their flavor is terrible. MUCH better-tasting apples have existed for centuries, those just don't travel well or look as nice.
i had a similar experience with apples, as a kid all my parents bought were red delicious and i hated them, i just figured i hated apples so i never ate them. Then one day a friend told me about honeycrisps and i thought of cereal at first so i said "ok, ill try it." My entire life changed in one bite, i now consume more apples in a week than in all my childhood years combined (not just honeycrisp, every kind...except red delicious, those can rot in hell). God bless you Mr. Bedford
My mum would pack slices of Red Delicious with my lunch and I always gave or threw them away. Hated the bland taste and powdery texture. The first great tasting apple I had was a Cox’s Orange Pippin from a Tesco near my University in London in the mid 1990s.
Long ago I switched to Granny Smith apples because I like the bite. I can believe that the Honeycrisp is better than the Red Delicious, but don't really care enough to try a sweet apple.
same. i love the tart crisp of a granny smith, and the flesh is always firm and never gritty or mealy like other apples. Honey crisps are good, but like every other sweet apple, theres always 1 out of every 10 apples that are mushy and gritty...
It’s funny because he was from North Carolina, which is also one of the United States’ biggest apple producers. I grow apples and produce cider in Virginia, and mostly grow old heirloom varieties. You’ve not had a real apple till you’ve tried an old heirloom variety. But alas, the fruit in your grocery store was developed for storage and shipping purposes rather than taste. Great video NPR
Yeah, unfortunately, if you don't live near where the apples are grown, you're stuck with what can be shipped. For those of us in that situation, I'm grateful somebody shoved Red Delicious off the shelves.
When I was in the UK I loved going to the local markets where small growers offered lots of home grown fruit varieties. Some of the best tasting apples I ever tried I discovered there, including my favorite, the Cox’s Orange Pippin.
I can remember hating red delicious apples back in the day. Still do to this day. They were overly sweet and the texture was awful. My favorites run to more tart apples. And the honeycrisp is the perfect balance of sweet and tart. Love them.
I find eating Red Delicious when they are a little green (red but not full ripe) to have a good firm crisp texture and a slightly tart taste. But ya, full ripe is simply nasty.
The write to you from Washington State, which rightly or wrongly, considers itself the home of the Red Delicious apple. God knows we produce enough of them. As a child I love them. As an adult, I did not and assumed that They had changed. After a long drought of apples eating, I found the Fuji and have never strayed. It's history is much like described here, but in Japan. Apart from being a bit too sweet sometimes, it is the prefect eating apple. I am renewing my vows as I conclude this, Yum!
The real home of Red Delicious is KANSAS. The truth is that commercial interests RUINED that apple. Red Delicious came about in the 1890s and its original name was "Hawkeye." It was selected in the 30's and 40's for commerce because it had a ridiculously long shelf life and transported easily....but unfortunately growers didn't pay any attention to its deteriorating flavor and texture. It went from fresh Maine lobster to McDonalds lukewarm crappy lobster.
Try OPAL apples. You can slice them into a bag and leave them overnight in the refrigerator, they do not brown and they taste delicious. Also, Red Delicious tasted great in the fifties, then breeders messed with them making them big, and tasteless. (Pink Lady is good too, but hard to find)
Thank you, David Bedford! I've also always hated Red "Delicious" apples. There was an apple tree in my parents' back yard that had the best apples, never knew what they were, but couldn't wait until summer when they were ripe. Told mom not to bother buying RD's as I wouldn't eat them. The peel was so bitter!
i love planet money. paired with the beautiful backgrounds in america and a talent video team, what could go wrong? america is actually beautiful even with all the hate it gets
This was great. Very interesting and informative, I liked how throughout the whole video, I felt intrigued in all the information that was being shared. And honey crisp apple is honestly my favorite apple as well, sweet, yet has a tangy sour twist to it!
@@stittyd - I've had Honeycrisp, Envy, Pink Lady, Jazz and I think the rest of those mentioned... got some Envy in the fridge right now. Those are great apples, but Fuji is still a good apple!
Just stumbled on this lol. A little history/background was missing on the Tyrant so....The Red Delicious was originally called “Hawkeye” (not great for marketing) and was actually a great apple. With slight variations in apples grown on the same tree producers used the scion wood that produced the more aesthetically pleasing apples to then graft and produce additional trees. This practice continued for generations until the Red Delicious became an entirely different apple. The other issue is due to how these apples are grown and when they are picked. The apples are picked far too early and never develop their flavor, this is for shipping purposes (certain varieties have a smaller window for flavor/ripening times) Nearly all of these “Tyrants” are grown conventionally with chemical fertilizers and sprays that produce fruit that is larger, more appealing, but with flavor that is essentially diluted. So with a sole emphasis on aesthetics and shipping/retail, the “Tyrant” was born. If you buy local and organic you’ll likely never meet another “Tyrant” lol
Most surprising story. Here in Denmark we, until recently, had about 800 varieties of apples. Of witch 200 were local. All good for different tastes and purposes. Alas, due to supermarkets, most of them survive only in private gardens.
I actually prefer red delicious over Honeycrisps. I didn't as a kid. i hated how dry the skin was. But nowadays I just peel the skin off first and then sink my teeth into that delicious juice. I can sometimes get an entire glass's worth of apple juice out of a single apple just by mashing it in my mouth
Just got some Honeycrisp apples in late summer in the northern Midwest US from a local grocery store. Came to around $2.75 for *one* apple. We got six of them. They're good, but they're not _that_ good. When I first had them several years ago, I remember them being a bit better. Before then I preferred Granny Smith or sometimes Golden Delicious.
You may be right about the Honeycrisp, but you glossed over the sins of the Red Delicious (as a commodity) and didn’t even mention the Washington State Apple Commission which controlled the marketing of Washington state apple’s (Red Delicious). It’s true that Red Delicious are tough, but they’re supposed to be. That’s the crispness you mentioned in reference to Honeycrisp. The problem became that the sale of apples depended entirely on “crispness” and shipibility. The Apple Commission had the force of law behind it (Washington State Law). It dictated the way apple’s were sold. So, each year the Commission decided on a Release Date. Washington apple’s (Red Delicious) could not be “sold” each year before the release date. The release date was not determined by the flavor or sweetness of the Apple. Essentially the only criteria (besides market conditions) was the “crispness” of the apple. To determine crispness the Apple Commission used a simple device that had a pressure gauge and a lever which pushed a tube into test apples. An established benchmark of pressure was determined and each year apples were “released” based on the pressure it took to pierce the skin with the tube and not on the sweetness or flavor. Apple’s, pears, apricots, bananas and almost all fruit are picked green so they have a “good” shelf life and so they can be shipped long distances. I lived in Yakima. There were some isolated Red Delicious trees that weren’t harvested and Red Delicious, If allowed to ripen on the tree is the best apple in the world ,but you’ll never get that in the store.
never did like red delicious reds because the skin did not taste delicious now the yellow golden delicious was good and sweet but my favorite is honey crisp
People dont realize how good the classic apple breeds can be because they are stored and shipped and most of us get these semi beat up ones - back in the 70s and 80s the classic apple breeds like granny, pippin and Red delicious were waaay crispier and better over all
It was the MacIntosh that tick'd me off. They were great if you could pick them off a tree yourself. But, at the grocery store, I hated them--and bought may red and golden delicious instead.
Meanwhile here in Australia, I grew up on Red delicious and Granny Smith which both,I swear, turned me vegetarian and live on a fruit diet, High in sugar, for over 30 years. As that sugar high clears after discovering diet induced constipation and the benefits of eating the skin and just a little of the inner sugary goodness, I stumbled across apples with new names at my friend's store. Every single one reminds me of The Terrible Granny Smith Apple from my hidden and damaging childhood. On and On this torture is re-administered by truly horrible horrible apples named things like Jazz and other ass tightening names. Then one day I bite a Fuji and my faith in humanity is never restored but I know some one out there can at least create a decent damn apple. Sweet yet firm witha beautiful Honey after taste I Am A Man Transformed! Now I can go back to sleep. I'm only 49 but I'm exhausted. Looking for that Apple near killed me. It's been a journey but some consumer had to endure it.
There are so many that are better than Red Delicious. Cortlands were around when I was a kid in Washington state. I vaguely remember them as being great and a good pie apple. Gravensteins are small and ugly but fantastic. I think my absolute favorite eating apple is a Jonathon that's hung on the tree past the first frost. Ugly as sin, the skin a bit shriveled, but the flesh still crisp and tart with large sugar pockets....Mmmmmmmm.
