I just want to say…
…that my love for jazz apples has advanced to the point where I have trouble eating any other type of apple. So far, they all seem inferior to me compared to the fabulous jazz, for which I am willing to pay a slight premium. Green apples are beautiful, and they make for a nice logo and face-covering. But it’s jazz that I love.
Jazz and I just celebrated our four-year anniversary recently. Still going strong.
At least it’s a love that’s good for me. Until they discover that apples are bad. Actually, the low-carb contingent probably already thinks apples are bad.
But only bad apples are bad.
My first thought was, “If neo says these are good, I’d like to plant a Jazz tree in my orchard.” Come to find out, that would be impossible since the trees are patented and only certain growers can buy them.
Oh well, I guess I’ll have to suffer with my Ginger Gold, Cinnamon Spice, Gala and Red Fuji.
Fuji, because sweet!
Neo,
Have you tried the Kiku Apple? Recently tried these at my local Whole Foods. Sweet, crisp and just a little bit tart:
http://www.growingproduce.com/fruits/new-kiku-apple-is-so-sweet/
Just used Fuji in pie for the first time. Very pleasing result I thought. How about Jazz in pie? Have you tried it? If so, likes or dislikes?
“…. a slight premium.”
Well then you hold your love cheap.
Gala are pretty good; but I’m no apple connoisseur.
Some of the best I’ve had are mystery apples I found on the sites of abandoned homesteads in the north woods. Most were obviously late season long hanging apples, quite large, very red, and probably meant originally for baking or canning or something.
I’ve tried to grow antique varieties as a lark and as part of my wildlife plantings; but as I mentioned before I have never been able to adequately protect them from the deer, mice, tent caterpillars and even grasshoppers, much less those G-ddamned Bullwinkle Giraffe elk for which fencing means absolutely nothing.
Sometimes you will find a volunteer growing in the woods or on a wood field edge. And sometimes they will produce a good eating apple. If the tree has gotten big enough, and if there are no elk nearby, you can usually release it from the crowding competition, once it gets above say, 3 or so inches in diameter. That way the bucks usually only ruin half the bark; though I have seen them kill a much bigger diameter tree through repeated rubbings. The trick, I guess, is to release it before the other trees crowd it to death or really set it back, but not so early that a whitetail buck has room to maneuver his body for an attack on a still vulnerable sapling.
A tree 12 feet tall or 6 inches in diameter though, is still liable to being wrecked by an elk through browsing and rubbing. I’ve seen 10 inch diameter maples destroyed by them.
No wonder farmers killed everything that got in their way. You have to, or the pasts will wind up eating you … figuratively speaking.
Ambrosia apples are my apple of choice. Crisp, but just enough sweetness to make you want to eat two at a time. Mmm…..mmmmm…..mmmm…mmm…..mmmm
Honeycrisp apples for me. Sweet and crisp. They are pricier than Jazz or Fujis.
I adore empire apples for baking and pie, but alas, I cannot find them out west….
Honeycrisp and Pink Lady are my faves.
More here:
http://www.orangepippin.com/apples
I processed the word “jazz” sans “apples” and spent a few moments wondering what to think about this and/or whether I had any possible remotely germane comment. I didn’t think I did, just as I have nothing to say about ballet. Jazz apples? Nothing. Nada. Rien.
Well, it’s just as well. The political situation in the USA is getting to the point where all commentary seems superfluous. The decline of Western civilization proceeds.
I like Fujis and Honey Crisp. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Jazz apples at the store, but if I do I’ll try them.
Thanks for the tip, Neo. Found them in my supermarket (in Hong Kong) tonight and I think they’ll be taking over from Fuji apples at Chateau Kinch for a while.
Fuji apples are my faves! I was going to say “delicious” but that brought back sad memories of the red “delicious” apples which were red but not delicious. Should have been called red mushies. Fujis are a cross-breed, red delicious and something else that eliminates mush and adds flavor. Developed in Japan.
Fuji and Honeycrisp for eating raw, but Granny Smiths are my favorite for cooking, such as apple cake and apple pancakes.
Lizzy, I make a mean Apple Cobbler in my Dutch oven using Granny Smith with a little brown sugar added. Yellow cake mix on top with copious amounts of cinnamon sprinkled on top along with four to six pats of butter, depending on the size of the Dutch Oven. I’ve been making it so often now, that I had to buy a corer to core the apples