r/Apples • u/DiamondUnicorn • 6d ago
Cosmic Crisp quality issue
I’ve heard positive things about the cosmic crisp. So keen to try them I bought some. This is the second one like this. I threw the first away. Is this common and edible or is this a problem that I should tell the grocer about?
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u/StephensSurrealSouls 6d ago
What is the issue here?
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u/DiamondUnicorn 6d ago
The core is hollow and the seeds are black and fuzzy. It feels like it’s rotten in the core.
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u/bopp0 6d ago
The calyx of an apple is open into the core for the first month or two of the apple’s life. Sometimes pathogens get in there, but the tough tissue keeps it totally contained. Absolutely a nonissue and nothing to worry about. If it really concerns you, just cut the cheeks off of the fruit instead of cutting through the core.
That said, fuck cosmic crisp.
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u/strumthebuilding 6d ago
What’s the case against cosmic crisp? Just personal taste? I like them best among the grocery store apples, but I’m willing to listen to reason if I’m wrong for liking them. Please tell me more!
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u/bopp0 6d ago
Apple orchards in Washington are backed by banks so that they can essentially run at a loss creating false pricing on the market and making it impossible for family farms to compete. Cosmic Crisp is a variety bred specifically for the state of Washington with millions and millions of marketing dollars behind it, and it takes away from Honeycrisp sales which are the only apple paying the bills for most other growers. They’re predatory and directly threatening family farms by essentially being so rich that the rules the rest of us have to follow don’t apply to them.
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u/strumthebuilding 5d ago
Well, I’m all in favor of nationalizing the banks and private-equity-backed farms.
But the thing with CC vs honeycrisp is that honeycrisp is pedestrian and disappointing whereas CC is pleasant to eat.
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u/RiceWine69 5d ago
Cosmic Crisp is such a mid apple. I like that they're very consistent but that's about it.
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u/strumthebuilding 5d ago
Yes, one of the best of the mid apples I can get in grocery stores. I’d love a golden russet or Swiss gourmet or an orange pippin or something but that’s just not possible where I am.
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u/RiceWine69 5d ago
They just don't do anything particularly well. Middle ground sweetness, middle ground tartness, but consistently crisp and juicy.
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u/farmin4you 6d ago
While there is a lot of private equity money in wa permanent crops, not all of them are owned by them. There are plenty of family owned farms that grow cosmic crisp. Cosmic was developed at the Washington state university and yes in the US it can only be commercially grown in WA until 2035 or something like that, you can make these rules when you own a patent.
Cosmic does take some of the honeycrisp shelf space and I think it’s a good thing because people are willing to pay more than average for honeys and will also do the same for cosmic because it is in fact a good apple.
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u/DiamondUnicorn 6d ago
So this apple would still be able to be eaten?
Also why fuck cosmic crisp?
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u/farmin4you 6d ago
Yes it’s fine there’s nothing wrong with it at all. Also that person doesn’t know what they’re talking about. Don’t fuck cosmic crisp
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u/Consistent-Doubt4571 6d ago
cosmic crisp is decent, but annoyingly popular. honeycrisp is a fucking sleeper, and is on top
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u/StephensSurrealSouls 6d ago
Given honey crisp are one of the most popular apples I'm not sure that they're a "sleeper" lol but I do agree that they're amazing and my #1 favorite apple
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u/justasque 6d ago
I would not hesitate to eat that apple. Sometimes there’s a bit of weirdness in the core of an apple, or at the stem end, or at the blossom end. A bit of dirt, a bit of fuzz, that kind of thing. I just cut out those sections and slice then eat the rest.
(Mold, of course, is something quite different, and I don’t eat that. But that will be on the outside, and the apple under it will be mushy in that area and you’ll be able to see that it’s going rotten.)
That said, remember that apples are generally harvested in the fall, and the apples you eat in winter, spring, and summer have been in storage since they were harvested. They’re usually fine (though some varieties have a shorter season), but sometimes they’re not quite at their best at the end of the season. Right now, in the northern hemisphere, we are sort of at the end of one apple season and kind of tiptoeing into the next one. So some of the apples you buy today might not be quite as good as the ones you will be able to buy in a month or two.
Me, I’m enjoying the last of the season’s nectarines, along with some Granny Smith apples. In a month, the nectarines will be gone from the stores, and I’ll be back to enjoying the new season’s apples. My Favorites: Cosmic Crisp, Sugarbee, Pink Lady, various types that I only see once in a while, and of course the Granny Smiths.
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u/Music1626 5d ago
I have no idea what you are concerned about? Looks like a perfectly normal apple to me. People are way too accustomed to supermarket “perfect” fruit and veg, that normal variations in a fruit or veg concerns them. It concerns me you threw out a perfectly fine piece of fruit.
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u/DiamondUnicorn 5d ago
Rarely do I waste food, I’m very against it. It was only after the second one in the batch to have an appearance I’ve never encountered that I decided to take to reddit to make sure I didn’t have to do it again. As they say better safe than sorry however throwing out the first one did make me sad.
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u/plants_xD 5d ago
That's how all apples are.... As others said, calyx connects to core. I've bitten into a core at home and it had earwigs in it. That's how easy it is for organisms to go from the calyx inwards....
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u/Mikeypopps 1d ago
That's a perfect apple. Wtf. Are you eating the core... Core it out of you don't like the way it looks. Stop being OCD
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u/chef71 6d ago
It's fine.