After saucing lots and lots of different apples together and sharing with you my results for my Sauce-sational Applesauce Experiment it’s time that I make it a little easier for you to decide which variety of apple you want to try. 

photo by Friends in Photography

I’m going to keep all the varieties we have on the list even if I haven’t sauced it yet.  That will help me keep track of what apples I have to sauce in future years. To read more about the details of each sauce click on the variety name and it will bring you to the entire post I originally wrote about that particular apple.
I am summarizing to you the texture, color, flavor, and my personal opinion on the sauce.  Please remember with my opinion I do NOT LIKE TART.  For example – the cortland’s were a bit too tart for me so I put ‘Okay’ in the box – BUT I do believe that if you like tarter things you would really enjoy cortland sauce. 
I also did include the apples approximate ripening date.  I just want to make sure you realize if you want to try to make Zestar! applesauce that you need to visit us in August – not October. 
Well…here it goes!

Variety	Texture	Color	Flavor	Love, Okay, or Dislike	Approx. Ripening Time
Akane	N/A				August
Arlet (Swiss Gourmet)	N/A				Sept 17th
Baker's Mix - August	chunky & smooth	normal	pleasant mixture	Love	August
Baker's Mix - October	chunky & Smooth	normal	pleasant mixture, lots of depth	LOVE – favorite!	October
Baker's Mix - September	N/A				September
Bonnies Best	N/A				Oct 1st
Braeburn	fairly smooth	normal	sweet with a tang	dislike	Oct 15th
Cameo	smooth	normal	sweet with a slight tang	like	Oct 5th
Chenango Strawberry	N/A				Aug 19th
Corltand	chunky	WHITE	tart but good apple-y flavor	okay	Sept 12th
Cox Orange Pippen	N/A				Sept 25th
Crimson Crisp	N/A				Sept 10th
Dandee Red	chunky/smooth	normal	slightly tart - appley	okay	Aug 15th
Duchess	smooth	normal	like fall, appley fresh	okay	Aug 8th
Empire	chunky	whitish	tartish	okay	Sept 22nd
Fameuse (Sno)	N/A				Oct 2nd
Fireside	chunky	dark	sweet but lacking	okay	Oct 1st
Frostbite	N/A				Sept 30th
Fuji	chunky - watery	dark	sweet but too watery	okay to dislike	Sept 15th
Gala	chunky	dark	very little flavor	dislike	Aug 31st
Ginger Gold	chunky	light	sweet with a hint of tart	love	Aug 10th
Golden Delicious	chunky	light	sweet with some tart, good flavor	love	Sept 22nd
Granny Smith	chunky	lighter	mouth puckering tart	dislike	Oct 12th
Haralson	N/A				Sept 25th
Hazen	N/A				Aug 30th
Honeycrisp	N/A				Sept 9th
Honeygold	N/A				Sept 21st
Idared	slightly chunky	light	unique tart flavor	dislike	Oct 3rd
Jonagold	chunky/smooth	light	tart at first and then turned sweet	liked a lot	Sept 23rd
Jonamac	N/A				Aug 29th
Jonathon w/ skins	smooth	pink/red	true apple flavor- but sweeter than the peeled jonathons	LOVE	Sept 29th
Jonathon – peeled	smooth	normal	true apple taste – tart but not too much	love	Sept 29th
Jumbo	N/A				Oct 2nd
Macoun	N/A				Sept 25th
McIntosh	SMOOTH	lighter	slightly tart with hint of sweet	decent	Sept 6th
Melrose	N/A				Sept 30th
Northern Spy	N/A				Oct 31st
NW Greening	mix	dark	sour	yuck	Sept 26th
Paulared	mushed but not completely	normal	wonderful, sweet, appley	YUMMY	Aug 16th
Pink Lady (Cripps Pink)	N/A				Nov 1st
Rebella	N/A				Sept 20th
Red Delicious	N/A				Oct 4th
Red Gravenstein	slimey	light	appley, tart	dislike	Sept 5th
Regent	N/A				Sept 12th
Sansa	N/A				Aug 15th
Scarlet	chunky	pink, pink	sharp tart flavor	not my favorite	Sept 5th
Shizuka	chunky	normal	sweet but full flavored	like	Sept 25th
Silken	chunky	normal	sweet, yet subtly apple	LOVED!	Sept 7th
Smokehouse	N/A				Sept 20th
Snow Sweet	chunky/smooth	normal	tangy, sweet, appley	like to love	Sept 23rd
Spartan	smooth/chunky	normal	tangy, appl-y, somewhat sweet	like	Sept 19th
Sweet 16	mushy	normal	tangy, bland, dry	dislike	Sept 30th
Tolman Sweet	chunky	dark	sweet	love	Sept 22nd
Valstar	chunky	normal	starts out sweet, leaves tart in mouth	okay	Sept 10th
Wealthy	N/A				Sept 1st
William's Pride	N/A				Aug 10th
Winesap	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Nov 1st
Wolf River	N/A				Sept 14th
Zestar!	between	normal	real depth in flavor	LOVED	Aug 20th

Well…there it is for you.  I’m sure I’ve done more sauce analysis that that – I’ll have to search through my notes.  If I can’t find anymore I’ll be sure to fill in the gaps by making more sauce next season.  It’s not like we won’t enjoy it regardless!  I hope this helps you in your sauce making decisions!