Apples have long been my favorite fruit. When I was a kid, my grandfather would cut an apple for me everyday as a post-school snack. He remembered being extremely hungry after school (he genuinely had to walk a mile each way), so he wanted to do what he could to ensure that I didn't have to feel that way. One day, when I was about 5 years old, I had an apple that was so bad, that I did not eat another apple for over a year. I eventually returned to apples, but I always remembered how bad that apple was.
Years later, I tried a Snap Dragon apple. It was the best apple that I had ever had. I thought that I had found the perfect apple, and looked forward to eating more Snap Dragon apples in the future.
Unfortunately, this was not meant to be, as I have not seen a single Snap Dragon apple since that first fateful day.
After lamenting the lack of Snap Dragon apples in my life for a year or so, I finally had an idea:
What if I try all the apples that are available to me, and rate them? That way, if my current favorite apple (Envy) were to ever become as elusive as Snap Dragon apples, I would already know what to replace it with.
I held my first taste test in August of 2023, sampling around 13 apple varieties in one night, and recording my thoughts on a piece of paper. Unfortunately, I have since lost this piece of paper.
When fall came around, I realized that the dozen-or-so apple varieties that I had tried were a mere fraction of the apple varieties that were available to me. I went to farmers markets, an orchard, and ended up sampling even more apples, recording my thoughts in a Notion template.
These reviews are the ones that I've put on this website! It takes me a bit of time to transfer them from the template to the website, especially since most of my notes (aside from scores out of 10), are in the form of half-sentences, with a bunch of weird punctuation and shorthand.
I've transferred all the numerical reviews I've written to this website, but I'm still working on transferring the more in-depth reviews.
