I thought I was eating a Jonagold yesterday and it was really a Braeburn (gasp!). I even remember reading the sticker as I pulled it off, but somehow the J-word stuck in my head anyway, so I miscatalogued the apple. I assume this is a grave sin in the taste testing world, but I guess this isn't called Operation Eve for nothing!
In other news, I went shopping last night to pick up a few more contenders and got a liiiiiittle carried away....like 8 more apples carried away. (And I've still yet to find a Honeycrisp!). The girl at the checkout really, really appreciated me buying one of each kind. Later I realized that all these apples are going to eventually rot if I continue at my snail's pace of one per day, so I'm going to start trying two halves a day, in the name of freshness.
I also got some advice from my favorite professional taste test administrator Amy, who occasionally flies to Arizona to feed people sour cream. She pointed out that the grand finale hooplah side-by-side test should probably only include my top 3 favorite apples, rather than a chunk from the whole lot. This is a big relief, because trying to preserve fractions of 12 apples was not really on my to-do list. Plus, I ran out of snack baggies this morning. So now my plan is do a 3-day test at the end, where I rotate the order of apples eaten to make sure there's no bias.
Are you starting to understand how important this is??????
2 comments:
if you could find a honeycrisp, you wouldn't need a taste test. i am also partial organic gala from heb. central market had honeycrisp the last time i was there, just saying :)
ha! sweet new masthead! and i have to say, honeycrisps are TOO TART! like, so tart that when i eat one, i almost wonder if i'm going to get a bad acid stomachache.
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