Suggested Uses For Ohio Apples
For the best apple experience, pick the right apple for the apple treat you are planning. Please remember that not every orchard grows every variety of apple, so contact your orchard to see what they have available, and what's ripe.
| Variety | Flavor/Text | Eating | Salads | Sauce | Pies | Baking | Freezing |
| Summer | sour-tender | fair | fair | good | good | poor | sauce |
| McIntosh | spicy-tender | excellent | excellent | good | good | good | sauce |
| Jonathon | tart-spicy | excellent | excellent | good | excellent | excellent | slices |
| Red Delicious | sweet-rich | excellent | excellent | poor | fair | good | not recomm |
| Golden Delicious | rich-semifrm | excellent | excellent | good | good | excellent | slices/sauce |
| Law Rome | bland-milfrm | good | fair | good | excellent | excellent | slices |
| Stayman | spicy-firm | good | excellent | good | good | excellent | slices/sauce |
| Empire | tart-tender | excellent | excellent | good | excellent | excellent | slices |
| Melrose | crisp-mild | excellent | excellent | excellent | good | excellent | slices/sauce |
| Crispin | spicy-firm | good | good | fair | excellent | excellent | slices |
| Criterion | sweet-firm | excellent | excellent | good | excellent | excellent | slices |
| Fuji | sweet-hard | excellent | excellent | not/rec | excellent | excellent | slices |
| Gala | sweet-firm | excellent | excellent | not/rec | excellent | excellent | slices |
| Granny Smith | tart-hard | fair | excellent | not/rec | excellent | excellent | slices |
| Red Cort | tart-spicy | excellent | excellent | good | good | good | sauce |
not/rec-not recommended for this use