Do you peel apples? (For cooking.)

I scrub homegrown and only peel if I'm forced to purchase - I don't know what may have been sprayed in other growers fields.

I do peel cooking apples unless I'm grating them. I confess that it hadn't crossed my mind not to, so will give unpeeled a go. Thanks for the tip.

I do whatever the recipe suggests.

Yes, I peel them. They are not bought ones, they are from our Bramley apple tree, and sometimes they are a bit bruised or rough, so I peel them thinly.

My cooking is a bit International !
Once I try something and prefer it to my old recipe I'll adapt and adopt it .

It also depends on what I'm making :

If it's an apple pie I always use unpeeled dessert apples - frying them in butter with cinnamon and making a circular pattern in the pastry - either it will have a pastry cover or not !
I like the look and the taste of butter with cinnamon . I think that it's French style .

I grate unpeeled apples for mincemeat and add booze soaked bananas (!)

I peel cookers for crumbles and make it the traditional English way .

I peel dessert apples for an apple cake . My old recipe is an Italian one .

I've used both dessert and cooking apples for strudel and peeled them .

I peel them for a chutney and an apple butter .

No, never. DH does them.

Yes always 🤣🤣🤣

It depends what I am making.

Apple sauce - yes
Apple crumble/pie - depends
Tuna and apple sandwich - no
Swedish apple cake - no because the pattern looks pretty
Spiced apple jelly - no as you chuck it all in - cores and all

The only time I don't peel apples is if a recipe specifies not to eg the top of a tart or apple cake.

Or unless I'm sieving them for apple purée

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I don't peel, them if I'm making a galette. I peel them when making anything else.

As a rule no, unless making apple sauce or pureeing them. Once made apple sauce without peeling them and the skins just made it lumpy.

When cooking or making sauces yes. For eating, no way.

We have a Bramley Apple tree and I always peel the mountains of apples that it generously gives me.

However, I have an Apple peeler so I just stand and turn the handle……

Yes, unless baking them.

Always. I have never considered doing otherwise.