Do you peel apples? (For cooking.)

Always. I have never considered doing otherwise.

Yes, unless baking them.

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……

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

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.

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

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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

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

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No, never. DH does them.

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 .

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.

I do whatever the recipe suggests.

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