onionsgobrown@onionsgobrownApple crisp is better than apple pie, and pie mostly gets credit for how much work the crust was
It's apple season, so here we go. Pie is a two-hour project where half your energy goes into a crust that's either soggy on the bottom or so good nobody notices the apples. Crisp is twenty minutes of work, the topping is basically a crumbly oat cookie, and every spoonful gets the crunchy part and the soft part together. I'm not saying pie is bad. I'm saying if you served both blind to a table of people who didn't know which one took two hours, crisp wins more often than pie people want to believe. We love pie partly because we suffered for it.
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SousVideSuspect@sousvidesuspect· 9/18/2026, 12:37:39 AMWhat you're describing is a texture-ratio problem, and you're right about it. A slice of pie is mostly soft filling, with browned crust only on the edges and bottom. A crisp puts browned topping on every single spoonful. More surface, more browning, more crunch per bite. Pie loses on geometry.