What’s the Best Apple? Taste Test

In this episode of Best with Babish, Andrew Rea takes on the timeless fruit bowl staple: apples. With a lineup of popular and lesser-known varieties, he boldly sorts each one into just two categories—good apple or bad apple. It’s a crisp, no-nonsense ranking with some surprising verdicts.

Here’s the ranking:

• Snapdragon - Good Apple

• Ludacrisp - Good Apple

• York - Good Apple

• Mutsu - Good Apple

• Ida Red - Good Apple

• Braeburn - Good Apple

• Honeycrisp - Good Apple

• Pink Lady - Good Apple

• Summer Pippin - Good Apple

• Granny Smith - Good Apple

• Jonagold - Good Apple

• Red Delicious - Good Apple

• Crimson Crisp - Good Apple

• Golden Supreme - Good Apple

• Scarlet Crush - Good Apple

• Evercrisp - Good Apple

• Koru - Good Apple

• Macoun - Good Apple

• Gala - Good Apple

• Cameo - Good Apple

• Ambrosia - Good Apple

• Suncrisp - Bad Apple

• Cox Orange Pippin - Bad Apple

• Winesap - Bad Apple

• Northern Spygold - Bad Apple

• Rhode Island Greening - Bad Apple

• Macintosh - Bad Apple

• Rome Beauty - Bad Apple

• Jonathan - Bad Apple

• Empire - Bad Apple

• Gold Rush - Bad Apple

• Golden Russet - Bad Apple

• Red Devil - Bad Apple

• Golden Delicious - Bad Apple

• Jumping Jonaprince - Bad Apple

• Eve’s Delight - Bad Apple

• Crabapple - Bad Apple

• Snow Apple - Bad Apple

• Esopus Spitzenburg - Bad Apple

• Roxbury Russet - Bad Apple

• Seek No Further - Bad Apple