![]() ![]() Reach for it if you can't find any Pink Ladies. Still it is readily available nowadays and definitely a better choice than most other supermarket apples. Opal apples, for example, are naturally non-browning harder apples like fuji, red delicious, and granny smith can also stay crisp for months on end. It is also self sterile, which won't please suburban gardeners who only want or have room for one apple tree. An Opal is a specialty variety of apple, a cross between Golden Delicious and Topaz thats grown in the fertile farmland of eastern Washington, near the crystal. This makes it of limited use as a cooking apple (might good for apple sauce). ![]() ![]() Opal feels hard and crunchy but when you bite into it the flesh gives way almost as if you are biting into a cantaloup or melon. This video covers information about Opal apples, including their origins, characteristics, and best uses. COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT FirstFruits is committed to being present, caring and supportive of our employees as well as active in our local community, our nation and the world. I like my apples dense, with a crisp crunch. We’ve gained a reputation as a recognized leader in the industry, growing, packing and shipping a wide variety of organic and conventional apples, cherries and pears. What pulls my ranking down from a 4 to a 3 is the loose density of the flesh a fault it shares with Honeycrisp. You get a little more depth than with say a Honeycrisp or mass produced Golden Delicious. The flavor is quite good but not memorable. The skin is a brilliant golden yellow that brings to mind the fruit of folklore and myth. The Opal apple is a flavorful apple that is sweet with enough acidity to not make the sweetness overwhelming. 1 Developed by the Institute of Experimental Botany in Prague, 2 it is grown by FirstFruits Farms LLC in Washington and marketed by FirstFruits Marketing. The variety originates from a natural crossing of ' Golden Delicious ' with 'Topaz'. So many apples marketed as "golden" are more often than not a pale unappetizing greeny-yellow. opal is the brand name for apple cultivar 'UEB 32642'. The size and shape is exactly what you want from an apple and the color is absolutely gorgeous. Opal definitely gets my vote for one of the most attractive apples. I also like Cameo and Empire(among other recently sampled varieties), but I actually did find some flavor and crispness inconsistency with apples of both of those varieties. Its mostly sweet with a slight tartness, and of the 3 that I've bought at different times over the past few weeks, I am yet to find an Opal that isn't crisp/crunchy, despite a previous reviewer's comments about them being too soft. I actually like the flavor of Opal a little better than H.C. The cheapest of the 21 varieties is Opal, at $1.49/lb, compared with $3.99/lb for H.C.!! I had tried Pink Lady and Honeycrisp first, but then I decided to try the cheaper apples, because Honeycrisp and Pink Lady are literally 2-3 times the cost of almost every other variety. Anyway, instead of just taking bites out of them, I cut them into slices, and I decided to try as many of the 21 varieties of apples that are carried by my local Shop Rite. For some reason I never particularly liked them. ![]()
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