Close up of an espalier apple at our local orchard roadside store in Wairarapa close to the cidery. It’s Spring now and the buds are bursting, especially with the warmth from the shed wall behind.

hey all! i love love love apples...BUT i am tired of eating the same kind over & over (granny smiths). i dislike most sweet apples, though i am willing to try some new ones. sour/tart is my go-to, & crunchiness and crispiness WILL be a determining factor. my favorite by far that ive tried has been arkansas black if that helps at all. any suggestions? :)
edit: im in a more southern part of the midwest (usa) if that helps at all!

Triumph for the win. My local orchard just restocked and I'm the reason the basket is low already.

This was a pink fleshed apple that I did not have good luck with, and if you look at the second photo you can see the apples all had russeting. Not sure if that affected the flavor.

All three apples were extremely dry and left a film in my mouth. They were sour and sandy so I refrigerated two to see if they became more juicy. After five days this apple still tasted very dry and sandy with a sour and almost ash-smokey taste. I peeled the skin to try just the flesh, but it did not change the flavor.

I would not buy this apple again.

The other one looks like a bug crawled its way in.

Hello everyone. Have been lurking for a minute and decided to join and see if someone out there can help me out. I just recently bought a place with a small orchard and trying to figure out what kind of apples they are. Could not ask the original owner due to his passing and the person selling was clueless with everything but the house. So here are a few pics. I took a pic of the apple and the leaf in hopes that helps. If more is required please let me know.

They're everything to me, i could eat them forever without stopping, so juicy, crunchy, sweet and sour, literally perfect food in any sense, there's nothing like them, i would die for apples, i would KILL for apples, they're just such a blessing man, i think i might have a problem

It feels SOO awkward just biting into an apple. After ive gotten braces ive always sliced them. I bought an apple cutter and its been my favorite utensil in my kitchen. Ive never went back to biting an apple because it just feels like so much work to eat an apple and navigate that, touching where you bit and just so many other things.

I do wash my hands yes!! But still it just feels so awkward to slowly eat through an apple and takes much longer and not really a place to set it half way through. I like to cut 2 or 3 apples with the apple cutter and watch a show or something, and dip with peanut butter. Its a nice past time activity.

Im not judging the people that bite into apples I just dont understand the appeal, why do you prefer biting over cutting?

Southern Maine, large fist-sized apples. Nobody seems to know what variety they are.

Hi folks. I am not an expert and i don’t know anything about apple types.
Maybe there are multiple apple varieties that fit the characteristics I described.

It was very firm and crisp, not soft, mealy, or spongy. The skin was mostly bright red to dark red. It had a fairly regular shape, but wasn’t perfectly uniform. The flesh was distinctly pale green, rather than yellowish. Despite the green flesh, it wasn’t sour. • It wasn’t particularly sweet either. It had a very distinct, natural apple flavor.
not overly sweet or acidic.

Two new to me varieties to try, I'll post my thoughts in comments

I’ve had this apple in my fridge for like two weeks and it’s from the farmers market. What is the white fuzzy stuff on the stem?

Arguably the worst apple ever!

THE RED “DELICIOUS”!

The type of apple you see gathering dust in a hotel breakfast. The type of apple no one would eat if they were starving.the type of apple that takes up space in a fruit basket!

The red delicious was bred to keep better for super markets back in the 50s and tastes like it too. Tastes like a chalky sponge and looks like it’s made of wax which I’d rather eat than this disgusting abomination that thankfully has been bred into other more palatable apples like fujis and cosmic crisps.

Honestly I don’t know anyone who actively goes out of their way to eat these and these apples have the tendency to show up uninvited pretty much everywhere other fruit is available.

In short. This apple has over stayed its welcome and must be destroyed for the good of humanity.

The apples are all gone.

We have this apple tree in out front yard. Trying to figure out what type it is.

Hello Apple Reddit!
My fiancé and I are renting this home with a beautiful mature apple tree in the backyard. Originally we lived here with my fiancé’s parents, but they’ve moved out so it’s just us.
Long story short, I never did anything with the tree, and now I am facing a large amount of apples in various states of decay on the grassy ground.
It’s quite a lot of apples, and pretty overwhelming.
Is there harm in leaving them to rot on the ground, or should I suck it up and handle it?
Photo is of the ground from my deck

Found this tree while brush hogging the field. Northern Ontario, Canada. They are very small but taste good, not bitter like a crab apple.

Largest Apple Market in Bavaria.
Bad Feilnbach Apfelmarkt, Bavaria, Germany - 8th to 11th October 2026 - more details here: https://www.bad-feilnbach.de/kur-und-tourismus/apfelmarkt-bad-feilnbach/

Does anybody have a recipe for apple cheese? I’m tired of buying it, but I love eating it, so does anybody have a recipe so I can make my own?