“Are people going to buy it at $2.99 a pound (roughly twice what other apples sell for) when they’re only going to get two, maybe three, apples to a pound?″ said Clarke.
Can you? It’s sort of a starchy storage taste.” “The flavor’s good but it’s got an aftertaste,″ said Chip Kent, co-owner of Locust Grove Fruit Farm in Milton. “Not necessarily a better- or best-tasting apple.” “With their volume, they (Washington growers) need an apple that’s durable – easy to pick, easy to pack – that they can sell all year,″ said Fino. “In that sense, it’s a grower, packer, chain store apple,″ said Clarke. The dense flesh and thick skin, however, protect the apple from damage and prolong its shelf-life in storage for as long as 12 months, an attribute that even Washington growers are hesitant about advertising. “So this is likely to sell on looks.”īut if the small, round, red Cosmic Crisp is a ringer in appearance for the small, round, red Empire, a variety developed in the 1940s that is still popular today, what does it taste like?īrad Clarke, co-owner of Clarke’s Family Farm in Modena, got a knife out and started cutting up the apples. “Washington growers have always thought redder is better – look at Red Delicious – and consumers, regardless of what they tell you, really do buy with their eyes,″ said Anthony Fino, co-owner of Fino Farms in Milton. The other Hudson Valley growers who gathered before sunrise for breakfast at Kirky’s, the popular deli on Route 9W in Milton, agreed. “It looks just like an Empire,″ said Romero, orchard manager at Pavero Cold Storage in Highland, twirling the apple in his hand. Whatever he expected from his first encounter with the much-ballyhooed new kid on the apple block that Washington state growers released Dec. Dominic Romero looked in surprise at the bag of Cosmic Crisp apples spilling on the table.
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