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I got curious, I live in Oregon and could grow them but never seen them but it sounds like some people grow Bramleys. Of course there are about 10 million varieties here and probably some similar thing exists, people get very particular about their varietals.

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In the Uk, at least in terms of what’s available in normal shops you have all the varieties of “eating apples”, (which you pick up and bite into in the normal way) and then the “cooking apple” which is roughly twice the size of an eating apple and is too dense and tart to be eaten in the normal way but is used in apple pies with lots of sugar and maintains much of its density through the cooking process. There is only one readily available variety- the Bramley.

As far as I know the UK is the only place that has special varieties of apple for cooking. Cooking apples are usually large, tart and cook to a pulp. There are many varieties but Bramley is by far the most common.

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