They look very Braeburnesque.

My favourite is still the Egremont Russet (although I do enjoy the odd Jonagold), but their season is pitifully short (the late season ones are better anyway).

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My mom first tried them in Northern CA (at a Trader Joe's) about 2 months ago. She's hooked on them.

They've started selling flats of Honeycrisp apples and flats of Gala apples at our local Costco. They have a pitifully short season, I'm afraid!

Oh, if you buy them, make sure you get the right package. Much dissapointment in our house when the "honeycrisp" apples turned out to be marked Gala, but were put under the wrong price marker. :(

I tried a honeycrisp apple at a local grower this season. It was good, but I didn't think it was so great that I wanted to buy them over all others. The season is short, and apparently they can be pretty finicky to grow (I think these are not as disease resistant as some others? Can't remember, something like that) which is why they are expensive.

We were getting some apples via our CSA subscription until that ended a few weeks ago. Our favorite for the season was something this farm got from their neighbor farm, golden supreme. This variety is just enough different from golden delicious, and in a good way, better texture, more flavorful. We liked them so much we got a half bushel at an additional cost and went through them all pretty quickly (just two of us).

It may also help flavor-wise that local apples are not treated and/or bred to ship well, so with these the more local you can get them the better. True of most produce, really. All the stuff we got via our subscription seemed much better than what is typical in many stores.

This is the only raw apple I will eat. Got one sitting here at my desk, in fact. ;) Hard to find another variety other than Granny Smith that isn't mealy...and I hate mealy apples. Plus, the taste is unique to my palate.

That being said, something happened to them this year. Last year's crop were medium-sized, but this year's crop seems to have been raised on steroid or something...nearly twice the size.

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Possible, but not too likely. They usually become available in Sept., and tend to go pretty quickly. It's possible that some stores are holding them in cold storage and letting them out slowly, but in my experience they tend to sell as quickly as grocers put them on the shelf. Good luck.

This thread makes me envious, since I have a mild allergy or sensitivity to raw apples, as I do to a few other raw fruits (e.g. cherries, apricots), causing my throat to become itchy.

Candy apples are fine though. :)

The Honeycrisp apples I picked up are large. They look like they are about 50% larger than a regular-sized apple.

California apples are lousy. You need a hard frost to make a good apple. If you want to spend money on premium quality apples, don't bother if they've come from California. And if you've had a honeycrisp that came from California or some other place where they only have wimpy winters, you haven't had a honeycrisp.

Yep. But last year's crop...at least the ones that were sent to Texas last year...were the size of a MacIntosh or a Braeburn. This year I can hardly finish one.

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I had the good fortune to pick a few lbs of Honey Crisps at an apple orchard in Springfield, VT this fall. Very nice fresh off the tree!

I'll have to make sure to check the sticker. I've had them, and they're good..but nothing overwhelming.

I'm quite content with my fuji's -- with a little extra crunchy Peanut butter on top :)

I went to a Fresh Market today and bought a couple because of this thread. They were very good though I like getting apples off the farm in season the best.

My family will only eat Honeycrisps while they're in season. We get them at a local cider mill for ridiculous prices, but I haven't seen them many other places.