Sunday, December 30, 2007

Apple of our Eye

We picked up 13 different kinds of apples at the store yesterday, and had a taste test this afternoon. After much tasting and deliberation, the Jones family ranked favorites are:

1) Fuji (#1 choice by Hal & Teresa)
2) Cortland (#1 choice by Allie & Ty)
3) Gala (#1 choice of Courtney & Dad)

Fuji did well, making it on almost everyone's list of favorites. Granny Smith and Golden Delicious also had multiple votes. The Rome apples looked really neat because they were red inside, and the Ambrosia apples had an interesting taste. After the voting was complete, we realized that 13 apples was too many to get everyone to eat, so we pulled out the dipping caramel, and that did the trick.














We've done some other tastings recently-- we tried different kinds of cheese one day, and different types of butter (on Saltine crackers) the following week. The refrigerator is still packed with perhaps more butter than we will use in six month's time, and has an interesting smell, too.

2 comments:

Heather said...

that's great! One of my favorite memories is doing an apple taste-test in my first grade class. I don't remember which one won for taste, but I still remember "Rome Beauty" won for most beautiful apple.

Anna said...

How fun! You guys are super creative! Thanks for sharing your ideas. BTW, how was the water park?