Taste Testing 50 Apples | Bonus Babish
This is fun.
The hard part about doing this sort of thing is we have bred so many apples for different harvest times from super earlies to lates that you can't get peak fresh ones all at the same time. I know as I tried to do this once. It was disappointing how hard it was to get a variety all harvested fresh to make it fair.
By that I mean picked off the tree fresh or from the current harvest and not stored and kept fresh. As most apples you can buy were harvested last season and kept in special refrigerated storage so we can have fresh apples year round. Or imported and harvested early so they can survive shipping well.
You need to go some places that only stock seasonal harvest to get apples at their peak which is needed for many of the uncommon ones. Or you can end up with mealy, soft, or bland apples that otherwise would be a good apple to eat fresh harvested.
Despite all that this is still a very valid test as all those apples were for sale at the same time. So if you got a chance to eat an unusual or uncommon apple you would likely run into the same issues. Not a lot of people will look up if the apple is in its season or just in apple season. Let alone if it is a baking, eating, or utility apple.