Farmers are not idle in winter, and neither am I. We plan and we prune and we fix.
Today I am pleased to announce the return of subscribe-by-email to Adam's Apples. Google dropped its built-in email service last summer.
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About the Subscription Service:
- These days I publish about 50 apple posts a year, mostly in season.
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Google unplugged its built-in email subscription machine last summer. It
took me a while to find an alternative that was not too spendy and did not
subject subscribers to advertising.
I hope this works out, and that my subscribers like it!
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Hi Adam, I'm wondering if you have an answer to an issue I've been having with conventional apples. Many of the club apples I've bought lately, like Pinata, Kanzi, Opal, cosmic crisp, and others, have had a terrible bitter taste, like bitter pit but with no brown pits. Peeling barely helps and washing is ineffective, even with a good fruit wash. I've searched the internet and the only reasons the experts give are bitter pit or tannins, but this isn't like either. It's often a whole bag of perfect-looking apples. I have noticed sometimes that it seems to be associated with heavily waxed specimens, and I've never had this problem with organic apples. So you know if there's a new coating or spray being used, especially in Washington? It seems to be usually Stemilt apples, but that might be coincidental. It's made me almost afraid to buy apples, and they're a staple for me and my husband. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteHi Alice,
DeleteShort answer is no, I don't know about this. (I did buy a bag of unusually "off" Jazz a few weeks ago.)
For several years commenters on this blog reported disappointing Lady Alice in stores: bitterness or a "chemical taste" or just not ready to eat.
These are a Rainier variety and I mention this because Rainer replied with the explanation that it was a question of timing storage, and other potentially relevant observations.
Not saying that is the cause, just that it's another dimension of managing the harvest that affects quality. You could test the wax hypothesis by pealing and tasting one of these unfortunate samples.