Smitten Apple Review
"The Curb Stomp of Apples"
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The curb stomp of apples, this concrete product of a masochistic breeder in New Zealand is so hard that eating it is quite a lot like biting into a rock. The witch-curse they call a tagline for this apple is “Once bitten, forever smitten”, which reads like a warning label for an impending zombie horde attack, is an appropriate motif for an apple that tastes like the guts of an undead corpse. Avoid this mealy rock-fruit at all costs, for the only person Smitten with this apple will be your local orthodontist.
Taste
Crispness
Skin
Flesh
Juiciness
Density
Beauty
Branding
Cost/Availability
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SWEETNESS
2/5
★★★★★ 2/5
TARTNESS
1/5
★★★★★ 1/5
INTENSITY
1/5
★★★★★ 1/5
Eat These Apples Instead
Smitten Is Better Than
- Autumn Glory Apples
- Red Delicious Apples
- Breeze Apples
If you can’t bite into the apple try cutting it into quarters. The Smitten apple is absolutely beautiful, juicy, sweet and yes crisp but not hard. Well done to the Kiwis who developed it.
Smitten is one of the tastiest apples in the world, with great crisp texture and juice content. I buy them whenever I see them. I do not understand this review at all. Maybe he got one that wasn’t ripe. If you core them first, you will not notice any hardness.
Have been looking for this Apple for years since I first tasted one. The best ever! Why they discontinued here I’ll never know. Love love love them. Best ever!!!!
I fell in love with apples all over again when I tasted my very first Smitten. Now, all other apples through the season must be ranked against the Smitten as the best.
Wow! What a strange review. I love Smitten and anticipate their arrival in my store here in Oregon USA every autumn. Their window of availability always seems short so I feast while I can. Great Apple.
Makes me wonder that the reviewer is only baiting Smitten lovers to write about it’s wonderfulness. I’ve had only one, but I’d get it again if I couldn’t get Winesaps.
I seen these at Kwik Trip today, 12 for 6.49. I thought i would take a chance and holy cow. I just tried them. Never have i ate 2 apples back to back, but i just did. That’s how good the 1st one was. We have Honey Crisp apples here fresh off the tree at the Applefest,..and the Smitten have a flavor all their own, and are just as good as Honey Crisp, if not better. Will be buying them again as soon as i’m out. Never heard of Smitten Apples before..!
Agree with all commenters. This reviewer was obviously high.
I just love this juicy apple!!
The reviewer must be “off his noggin”. This apple is everything he says it is not. It is juicy, not hard at all and very flavorful. If this reviewer thinks he is an expert on the subject of apples then he needs to find a new profession.
“profession” – sir, you are mistaken!
When the Smitten Apple was first introduced, the apples in the store actually came from New Zealand and they were perfectly ripe and delicious! Now the ones I am finding here in the Midwest are grown in the U. S. (usually Washington state). They are half green, picked and shipped way too early, and they taste awful. Another example of the U.S. growers ruining a good thing by rushing it to market.