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> better than the egg-inspired food product in a McGriddle. People always use this as an insult, but how cool would it be if fast/processed food providers had
by jjoonathan 9y ago
> better than the egg-inspired food product in a McGriddle.
People always use this as an insult, but how cool would it be if fast/processed food providers had actually found a way to make eggs/chicken/beef/etc artificially? It's been an area of active research with decades of failed attempts to show for it. Achieving fast-food level quality would be a huge step forward.
- whatshisface 9y agoEgg synthysizers exist and they're shaped exactly like chickens.
- adrianN 9y agoNow do it without a nervous system that can experience suffering
- jjoonathan 9y agoand without losing 90% (or was it 99%?) of the input energy to heat.
- nkurz 9y agoI think egg production by chickens is actually more efficient than that. If I'm reading Figure 1 in the following link correctly, it looks like modern farms are about 17% efficient for calories of food fed to the chickens to calories of eggs produced: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/10/105002/pdf http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/10/10... For comparison (from the same figure) pork is 9%, chickens raised for meat are 13%, cow production of milk is 17%, and cows raised for beef are 3% efficient.
- razakel 9y agoThe secret to fast-food "quality" is the same as any other restaurant: fat, sugar and salt.