Cosmic Crisp Vs Honeycrisp Smackdown

You knew this was coming, right?

I only ate these guys, as well as am feeling—sugared out.

The spectacular commercial success of Honeycrisp (right) has spawned a generation of challengers. Today comes Cosmic Crisp to claim the Saccharine Crown.

If you lot are a Honeycrisp fan, you've got to endure wondering how the challenger stacks up.

Cosmic Crisp, at left, blushes deep red, if orangish tinged, over yellow. The apple tree is slightly tapered but generally cylindrical, alongside around ribbing, as well as is pretty hefty without existence positively huge.

Starry, starry night

Notice the large irregular lenticel dots. These are the "cosmic" inward cosmic crisp, supposedly suggesting the stars inward the firmament.

On other samples these are minor as well as quite distinct. Also, the blush tin endure to a greater extent than saturated than equally shown. See, for instance, the instance depicted below.

My Honeycrisp is smaller than most I convey seen. It has a classical tapered kind as well as a streaky orangish blush that makes its Cosmic offspring (Honeycrisp is Cosmic's father) await downright majestic yesteryear comparison. It's equally good less ribbed.

The many tiny lenticels are generally lost inward the streaks, but upward unopen I tin encounter that each is slightly recessed into the peel.

These are both quite handsome each inward their ain way. I convey to telephone outcry upward the beauty competition a draw.

Flavor?

But who cares close that? What utilization they utilization inward your mouth?

Cosmic Crisp is crisp as well as sweet, alongside a flavour that is both floral as well as only a piddling smokey. The flesh is xanthous as well as coarse.

With Cosmic inward my mouth, Honey is frankly underwhelming. Its squelch is great, improve than its rival's, but its flavors are only tired.

And also—but look, in that place is something that must endure said close this match­up.

This is non a prime number Honeycrisp.

Don't teach me wrong, it is a really adept late-­winter sample. I for sure paid a prime number cost for mine at a prime number supermarket (where I am not, yesteryear the way, a prime number member).

Nonetheless, Honeycrisp only does non concur upward equally good inward storage.

Crimson Crisp does, which is 1 of its claims to excellence. But inward a sense this is non a truthful apples-­to­-apples comparison: I'd involve a fourth dimension machine to September or belatedly August for that.

A prime number Honeycrisp

This Honey is non fifty-fifty equally adept equally my January sample, which was clearly fading.

The other thing close this Honeycrisp is that it grew inward Canada. Perhaps from 1 of those trees that Nova Scotia paid farmers to constitute after ripping out their McIntosh.

Maybe that northern exposure is the argue this Honeycrisp is non equally sugariness equally whatever of the others I convey sampled.

It's non fifty-fifty equally sugariness equally the Cosmic Crisp. Which, correct at 1 time at whatever rate, actually is the improve apple.

Some to a greater extent than comparisons: Honeycrisp is crisper, lighter, as well as less dense. Its flesh is a lighter yellow. It may endure a piddling juicier. (Maybe.)

However you lot experience close Honeycrisp, this fourth dimension of yr Cosmic Crisp's improve flavors give it the edge.

Which is the comparing that matters now.

P.S. Don't teach me started on the names of these varieties.

Links

• Cosmic as well as Honey
• Honey inward January
• Pomocide inward Nova Scotia
• A quintet of Honeycrisp wannabees

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