Everything You Need to Know About Buying and Cooking with Apples
What’s not to love about apples? They’re colorful and sturdy enough to carry around all day. They’re a healthy snack, and delicious raw, baked, or even cooked into sauce. We’ve gathered together our best tips on shopping, storing, and cooking the popular fruit that always graces our fruit basket!
Shopping for Apples
With so many varieties of apples out there, knowing what you want to do with the apples will help you pick the right variety. If you’re baking with apples, you’ll want ones that stay firm during the baking process, but if you want to turn apples into applesauce or apple butter, you’ll want ones that fall apart quickly. And the best ones to munch on? Crisp, juicy ones of course!
Storing Apples
Lucky for us, apples are such hardy fruit that they can be kept for months at a time if stored properly. Apples like cold temperatures, but since they emit a lot of ethylene gas, keep them away from fruits and vegetables that are sensitive to ethylene gas and immediately remove apples that are starting to go bad.
- How To Store Apples for the Winter
- The Rubber Band Trick: How to Keep a Cut Apple Fresh in Your Lunchbox
Coring and Peeling Apples
Whether you use a knife, vegetable peeler, or special gadget, prepping apples is an easy task since they’re thin-skinned, small, and easy to cut through. If you find yourself with a pile of apples to deal with for apple pie or applesauce, though, here are some tips help you peel and core efficiently!
- How To Core Apples or Pears Quickly and Easily
- Use A Small Cutter To Core Your Apples
- What’s the Best Way to Peel an Apple?
And if you’re left with a pile of apple peels, don’t throw them away, here are some good ways to use them up!
Apple Cider and Apple Juice
Apple season also means the arrival of delicious fresh apple cider and apple juice. While the lines are a bit blurred between what is designated apple cider and apple juice, apple cider is generally unfiltered, sometimes unpasteurized, apple juice, while apple juice is filtered apple juice.
Dealing with Apples You Don’t Love
Sometimes we forget about the big bag of apples picked at the orchard last month or buy the wrong variety and end up with a lot of mealy ones, but these less-than-perfect apples can still be used! Turn them into unexpected treats like dehydrated apple rings instead.
Delicious Apple Recipes
- 17 Delicious Recipes to Make With Apples This Fall
- An Apple a Day: 10 Breakfast Recipes with Apples
Apple Cider Recipes