More Antique Apples! - Taste testing four more lesser known apple varieties - Weird Fruit Explorer 

An interesting thing about apples is their seeds. No matter what kind of apple u have, each of the seeds has a totally random genetic profile.. which is why that apple he mentioned was discovered in an orchard of Gala apples (I guess the random biodiversity benefitted them in the wild). That's why u can't use the seeds of any apple to grow a tree of the same kind. Rather, they have to use cultivars (clones), by splicing a sapling onto another baby tree. Sometimes, people just throw random handfuls of seeds to see what grows (which is how the Granny Smith apple was discovered in Australia).

My grandfather had a fine orchard on his farm with about forty different varieties of apples. He also grew pears, peaches, plums, cherries, currants, blackberries and figs. I was a lucky kid to get to eat all of those yummy fruits. I wish I knew the names of all my favorites, I don't think I ever did, which is a shame. I like crisp juicy interesting apples, my mom likes apples she describes as mellow, it's amazing how we enjoy such different flavors and textures. I'd love to go to an apple tasting, that'd be awesome!

I've gotten pretty good at calling what his Sweet/Tart scores are going to be based on his reaction. That speaks to his consistency! It also probably speaks to my lack of a hobby.

Antique watermelons are also pretty good. Here in the states, they've been bred to be as seedless and sturdy/hard as possible, and watermelons here have pretty much lost a lot of those more nuanced flavors and sweetness.

That Blondie variety sounds absolutely delightful. The juiciness of a Korean pear with a floral note and a touch of honey? That combination sounds like it could make a heavenly cocktail, juice or even a perfume!

Apples that grow in areas where there is a lot of summer rain , or from orchards who water a lot to get the most weight are boring .Apples that get good spring rain and not in the summer or until harvest are like some exotic fruit and they are very sweet . Flavor is lost when they receive too much water.

nothing is worse than biting into a mealy apple or peach

Calling apples boring always reminds me of those relatively small and very sweet apples my grandparents used to grow when I was a kid. They were easily better than candy.

I appreciate you going the extra mile to confirm that these apples do, in fact, taste like apples 😉

That apple tower is impressive

Red and Golden Delicious, aren't. (They're the lime green and blaze orange polyester Leisure Suit of the apple world.)

1:34 what a crunch man! Excellent video keep them coming brotha!

I like this series

Is it just my area or have MacIntosh apples disappeared from supermarkets? I remember seeing them as one of the four main apples. Macs, Red or gold Delicious, or granny smith were all that used to be in the supermarkets. Now I see more variety but no Macs.

I love videos like this because it’s a good way to get a sampling of people’s opinions on unusual apples. My orchard will be mostly unusual flavored apples.

Some other really fantastic apples are Suncrips and Crimson Crisps, my two favorites. Sun crisps taste like you’re eating spiced apple cider. They are yellow with a brownish blush. Crimson crisps are really crunchy, bright, and are much more refreshing rather than super sweet

Nice to see different varieties of apples.

Apples can be really boring but I think the history of each variety is very fascinating . It’s really exciting to watch you try them though because some taste completely different!!

I wasn't expecting to see a familiar apple in one of these! The Cameo is at my local grocery store every year, I didn't realize it was an antique If you can get your hands on one, I highly recommend an Opal apple. They're not rare or antique, but they're easily my favorite Washingtonian apple

Making jackfruit ketchup tonight will report back.

This reminds me of the best apple I've ever had, it was a tree growing at the horticultural college I went to. Frustratingly hard to find any information about it though, I think it was called Wisley Crab, although that very well could just be a description, a crab/seedling from Wisley gardens. It tasted like berries but only kept for about a week after picking and was best straight from the tree

Jared, I'm not sure if you're able to source apples from overseas but here in Australia we have the "pink lady" variety, which has nice sweet/tart balance with unique aromatic flavours going on. To date it's my favourite variety - I'm a real apple lover! Newer varieties like Bravo and Eve are quite bland.

Thank you for continuing to post content during the pandemic - I am sure it wasn’t always easy, but you help keep our minds off of things. At least you didn’t have to do a video where you compare apples and oranges!

This is a good idea for a series, you should do more apple videos for sure --- ! Antique apples can be great, but I feel like most of the varieties i've tried taste closer to what I consider a standard apple taste. I'm into more of the 'mad scientist' apples, if you will. My favorite being Cripps Pink/Pink Lady. I also find the Sweetango, Opal, and Cosmic Crisp to be especially unique. The Cosmic Crisp is more just unique in appearance, texture, and shelf life- many places would sell out within a few hours of opening when it was released here in Washington State in late 2019. It was developed at Washington State University. It has those little dots, reminiscent of starts, which are actually lenticels- the same kind of dots found on tree bark. Fun fact- lenticels function as a pore, providing a pathway for the direct exchange of gases between the internal tissues and atmosphere through the bark, which is otherwise impermeable to gases.

One of my early childhood memories (and more later) are of the Graves Mountain Apple Festival each fall in Virginia. And from that also I remember that winesaps were my favorite apples when I was tiny. All through my adult life, though I almost never encounter winesaps, I get happy just hearing them mentioned. ;) Side note, I just watched a permaculture video less than 24 hours ago of a guy who has been advocating for more of an agriculture of farmers in various locals to raise apples and other woody crops from seed and test out what is healthiest in their area and in the process end up with the advantage of not getting crops wiped out when monoculture farming inevitably has new pests and new moments of catastrophic wipeouts, like has happened sometimes in the past... but also in the process getting new local varieties in the case of apples, and many other woody plants of nut and fruit crops. I hope lots of people follow his lead all across the land!

imagine a world without apples

Honey crisp is quite common now, but it's honestly pretty much my favorite fruit to eat. I mean there are better fruit, but it's something that you can just eat as much as you want without getting bored. It's in that sweet spot of texture, water content, sweetness and bitterness.

Nice and interesting, Jared

Ida red apples are sometimes sold in the supermarket here in Ontario, Canada

Ida red is pretty common where I live. I see it in most supermarkets here. In terms of other varieties, Ambrosia is by far my favorite apple.

"tastes like an apple" wow spittin facts

You should try a Golden Russet apple. Also Ida Reds are cooking apples.

The sweetest apple I’ve come across is Smitten, it’s like candy. I have pet birds and they only want that one. They won’t even eat Braeburn, not sweet enough I guess

Awesome

Thanks for the Apple review. That farm has a lot of apple varieties. Appreciate your enthusiasm on your fruit reviews. Thanks again

you should get antique apples from Hendersonville, NC

I wish you'd tried cooking the Ida Red. I'm curious about the statement that it would turn pink when cooked. Also, these apple episodes are especially interesting to me, because my father has his own plant nursery here in Denmark, where he particularly specializes in old Danish and Nordic (and some German) species of apples, selling trees of the species that grow the best and in the healthiest way for local areas around the country. He has a small grove of a bunch of different apple trees (as well as pears, plums, and cherries), and I bet you could have a lot of fun just wandering around trying them all!

On the one hand, knowing that it’s harder than ever to get hold of exotic fruits makes me wish I had access to fresh kesusu to overnight to you to review, on the other hand it’s great that you can find such interesting apples and continue putting out great content so regularly.

I will plant an Appeltree. Its Name is "Altländer Pfannkuchenapfelbaum". An old Chance seedling from 1840. Translated it mean: "Oldland Pancake Appeltree". I love appel Pancakes. My grandfather made them with sliced Apples when i was at the Kindergarten in the morning. There are a lot of good old Appels out there. I also love Boskop or Granny Smith. Boskop is recomended for Red Cabbage.

if you havent tried the mountain rose, i highly recommend! very sweet, smooth apple, with red meat on the inside. i would love to hear your opinion if you've tried it!

Envy Apple is my favourite & the Papple is tasty too, never thought I’d say that about an apple or a pear/apple.

Ida reds are amazing makes the best apple sauce, apple pie! And makes an amazing jelly I love love the ida red, it does not taste like a grocery store apple! Lol 😝

Your videos are well made ✌🏻

If you think the cameo is big, look at varieties like "Aport" (up to 1kg or 2.2 lbs per apple) or one called "Riesenboiken" (that literally mean giant boiken-apple they can grow to over 15cm or 6 inches in width)

Apples are underrated.

Apples taste so good these days.

You really need to make an apple pie with the Ida Red to get the full experience

You should definitely try the black diamond Apple It’s a Kazakhstinian variety And it’s black

A pandemic is a great time to keep the doctor away.

See if you can get some of the russet apples some time. They all look rather like round potatoes, but they have an excellent taste. Hoople's Antique Gold, Ashmead's Kernel, Hudson's Golden Gem.

You should start making a video where you ask people in the comments to make stories or to make a story on how their lives when when they first tried a fruit they've never had before just a little something to grow your channel 😊

Holy shit smarterevery day is sponsoring you!

Love this antique apple series. Looks like it's time to refurbish your cutting board. 🔪

omg cameo is my fav apple. i used to get them at my local grocery but they seem hard to come by lately.

Too funny, I was mid making apple butter when your video popped up. :)

if you ever get a chance to try this apple : karmijn go for it as it has such an intense sweet tart flavor, my favorite

Central Asian apples are quite soft/mealy and with a very mild taste but they are extremely perfumed! Keeping a bunch around in a room is like using air freshener! The apples introduced by the British are the standard, sweet and crisp variety but lacking any real scent.

Antique apples 3/4 are from the 80s and 90s😋 still really enjoyed the video though

There is a large variety of heirloom melons I would like someone to review too. There are pie melons! Who would’ve thought?

Now someone needs to get you an apple you mentioned, a Cox’s Orange Pippin, famous English dessert apple and ancestor of many, many varieties including the Winecrisp. But it’s rarely cultivated outside of Britain and a few other places in Western Europe, and might be impossible to get in the USA...

The s in Illinois is silent

I wonder if you can get your hands on some New Zealand apples. My favourites are Pacific Rose / Sciros (pink, sweet, and slightly astringent dessert apple. Apparently now also grown in Washington) and the new-to-me Lemonade Apple (yellow, sweet, slightly tart, vaguely lemonadey flavour, very refreshing).

How is an apple created in the '90's an "antique"? That is a modern cultivar. "Antique" apples would be Abermarle's Pippin or Rome or Jersey Black.

Have you tried russets yet? theyre the most unique apples

This throws the sweetness scale into question. What is the reference apple? A honeycrisp is much sweeter than a Granny Smith.

“This might date the episode a bit, but there’s a pandemic going on...” So we know this was filmed sometime within the last 6 months ;) we’re onto you Jared

cool

As for the tasting like super market brands I do think there is something to growing them. I plan to grow rainier and bing cherries because I know I like them but I can save on cost with buying a tree. There is something about having a crop that will grow in your garden that you know you will not be disappointing with the flavor. Apples seem boring but they have a interesting history to it. If you were to plant a normal apple tree it will outlive you or I. I have heard of apple trees living 300 years. Also statistically someone else will have a crabapple or apple tree within 2 miles so you don't really need a cross pollinator with apples. I do think they are one of the least interesting you grow though. I am starting to grow cherries next year and have thought of growing peaches though with their low lifespan it may not be worth it for the peaches. I have never thought I wanted a apple to though.

wow actually first one here! I love apples tho! :>

Ida red is among the more common apples grown here. Sadly....ive grown to dislike its tartness.

I hope you get to try a Gingergold or a Zstar.

There’s a fruit farm nearby me and they have amazing sweet and crisp apples (that they grow from their orchard). I’ll have to see what kind of apples they are.

Paula Red, that's a good apple.

Where in NY is that farmer's market? I've been looking for some good ones since I moved to Queens last year. Now it's hard to find anything that's even open anymore.

I'm too old and have lost my teeth. So now i cook my apples. They remind me of how beautiful they are. But, thanks, but no when it is time to just crunch on a raw apple. We have cider, we have apple butter, we have dried apples, we have orchards. We have Johnny Appleseed! I think he might have been an agrarian socialist!

Honey floral flavored apples, wine flavored apples

Honey Crisp 🍎 🍏

Have you tried any Japanese Fuji Apple? Or any Fuji Apple? Their good, for me their the best apple I’ve tasted. If you ever review it, please give me the link to watch it. I want to see how you describe it, much respect to you for reviewing all kinds of weird fruits and such, keep safe.

I love apples so much too bad I can't eat them

Weird Explorer, can you try the Arkansas Black Apple?

These look like the standard apples from my supermarket. Which ones do you normally get?

At the apple orchard I work at we do not carry red delicious because they are just that bad compared to literally any other apple

I work in the produce dept at Safeway and cameo apples dont get purchased that often, shame.

You know what we need to make apples cool again? Blue apples.

These apples look good for how old they are, were they kept in cryogenic chambers?!

Love your channel jared! However i hate this apple vids cause i dont learn about new fruit, cause we all know how they taste basically. No hate im an old sub👊

You haven't seen a big apple :) around where I live we have two or three times the size ones of that Cameo apple, bloody red almost purple, I've forgot what they're called

Check out SkillCult's videos on apple cultivation/breeding some time.

Pink Lady for life! (Probably a very dull opinion.)

I wonder which would be good for jam/preserves.

How did this get any dislikes? Did three people not realize what they were getting into when they clicked on a (wonderful) video about a man eating apples?

Apples are so delicious but I'm allergic to them. :(

what's your favorite cat apple?

Glad to see you trying apples, but to be honest, this orchard isn't growing the really good ones. None of these apples would be on anyone's top ten. It seems like most orchards go for quantity, ease of cultivation, processing, and storage, etc over quality when choosing their varieties.

I gotta find where to acquire blondie saplings

Hi Jared it's me again, I know it's been a while but I am just curious, what is your favorite fruit you have reviewed?

Whats up with the milk series? I thought they were super entertaining to watch

A lot of Ida Red in Ukraine. They're the worst variety. We have green Semerenkos here that last a while.

How do you like them apples?! And my son would say, I don't like them apples!. Lol

i would love to find a real sour apple, any idea?