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> "When I tried a mini burger slathered in vegan mayo, mashed avocado, caramelized onions and Dijon prepared by San Francisco chef Traci Des Jardin at the compa
by buckbova 10y ago
> "When I tried a mini burger slathered in vegan mayo, mashed avocado, caramelized onions and Dijon prepared by San Francisco chef Traci Des Jardin at the company's headquarters in Redwood City, I was floored."
Honestly a good chef can make cardboard taste good. But as a daily meat eater I'd love a good ground beef alternative.
- adamnemecek 10y agoThis https://lightlife.com/products/smart-ground-original https://lightlife.com/products/smart-ground-original is pretty good
- buckbova 10y agoThanks, I'll give it a try. My SO questions my use of ground turkey today. See what she thinks of this.
- adamnemecek 10y agoThere's one version that's like spicier and it's better. You should also check out Gardein. Their vegan crab cakes are heavenly but all their products are really good. The fish is very convincing.
- ahoy 10y agoIt's fairly crumbly, but I find it's good for pasta sauces.
- adamnemecek 10y ago> It's fairly crumbly Crumbles gonna crumble.
- serg_chernata 10y agoYeah that almost sounds like they drowned a nugget of meat in sauce. Could he even taste the meat? Why not an actual plain, grilled meat test?
- sp332 10y agoHe did say it was about the texture, which is really the hard part in imitating beef. He also mentioned the flavor was a little weaker than normal beef.
- serg_chernata 10y agoThanks I must have missed that.
- SilasX 10y agoYes, reminds me of discussions of whether I "like" alcohol: "You don't like alcohol? Even when we dilute the heck out of it by mixing it with lots of sugar and fruit flavors? Crazy! I definitely like alcohol, although only Smirnov Ice and cosmos, for some inexplicable reason..."
- Jarwain 10y agoI feel like with these types of discussions, people like the feeling of alcohol, and conflate the feeling and the taste under the idea of alcohol. You could not like how it tastes but enjoy how it feels, and in the end it'd be a net positive.
- JTon 10y agoGood point. Especially for strong drinks. Although the argument _may_ fall apart when you start talking about the taste or wines, ciders, or beers. I mean, I think they're delicious and I like the way they make me feel.
- maxvu 10y agoGround turkey?
- eric_the_read 10y agoWay too dry.
- moron4hire 10y agoThat would be why I add bacon fat whenever a certain someone brings over ground turkey when I asked for ground beef.
- douche 10y agoI do the same thing when somebody decides to buy the ultra-lean 95-93% ground beef. You've got to do something, or else burgers fall all apart and taste like shoe leather - the easiest is to just buy the cheaper, tastier, better, 75-80% hamburger...
- kafkaesq 10y agoHonestly a good chef can make cardboard taste good. Which is exactly the core operating principle upon which the fast food industry (including much of what is put on the shelves in larger grocery chains) basically works these days: low-quality base ingredients + sugar, spices, MSG + gratuitous fats/oils + marketing == profit
- FuturePromise 10y agoI don't know. A lot of fast food tastes good. Like a fresh McDonald's plain hamburger which doesn't have any MSG or gratuitous fats or oil. And it's "principle."
- gtk40 10y agoBut to be fair, MSG is amazing.
- moskie 10y agoDepending on the context, texture vegetable protein (TVP for short) is an option for things like pasta sauce that you want to add a ground beef alternative too. I'm sure there's many other ways to use it, but that's one we regularly use in our house. http://www.bobsredmill.com/tvp-textured-veg-protein.html http://www.bobsredmill.com/tvp-textured-veg-protein.html
- ncknt 10y agoFWIW I tried an Impossible Food burger and was also impressed. I cooked it without condiments and found it a little nutty but definitely in the same category as meat.