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I prefer the taste of impossible but this is great news for the category.
by marrone12 6y ago
I prefer the taste of impossible but this is great news for the category.
- tommoor 6y agoAgreed, impossible is far superior. Impossible is only $5.99 for 12oz in Trader Joes at the moment
- ArchOversight 6y agoIt's also for sale at Costco: $16 for 2 lbs which matches the pricing of the Trader Joes.
- chasd00 6y agoi can get a pound of organic, free range, rocked to sleep every night by the rancher, ground beef for about that. i thought Impossible/Beyond was suppose to be significantly cheaper than beef? I've had it but my wife brought it home one night so didn't see the price.
- rsj_hn 6y agoButcher box sells you free range, grass fed beef for $16/pound, delivered to your home.
- mywittyname 6y agoBeef is hella subsidized in the USA. Both directly, and indirectly, through low grazing fees on public lands and subsidized feeds. The grocery store tubes of 73/27 are under $3/lb where I'm at. Making beef insanely cheap per calorie.
- tootie 6y agoI think either beats any frozen beef that gets served at a cheap fast-food joints while neither comes close to beating fresh, high-quality beef. They can take over the entire bottom of the market which is probably the most unwholesome for the environment.
- Spivak 6y agoEh, the bottom of the market is made from the "bad" cuts of meat. As long someone wants the good cuts there's no reason to waste the rest. Nobody's making hamburger out of cuts of meat that could have been sold as a steak.
- enigmo 6y agomost dairy cow meat is used for hamburger, it's rarely sold as steak or roasts.
- spacejam88 6y agoSpeak for yourself. Nothing can beat an oily, greasy In N Out beef burger with processed American "Cheese" on top of something that barely resembles beef, but you can't say it isn't the best thing you've ever tasted!
- poopoopeepee 6y ago> In N Out In-N-Out is never frozen and is of a higher quality beef than most other chains, fyi
- boring_twenties 6y agoI never liked In N Out myself. Not even in comparison to other fast food, nevermind "the best thing I've ever tasted," that's laughable. I'd rather have a double from Wendy's and MUCH rather have something like Five Guys or Shake Shack.
- hedora 6y agoNone of those four chains use frozen beef.
- jandrese 6y agoI agree, Beyond overdoes the fake smoke flavor. But they seem to be better equipped to scale up than Impossible, they've beaten them to mass market in almost every location I've seen.
- olyjohn 6y agoI bought a package of Beyond Meat. It was right next to the ground beef, and looked like ground beef. I assumed I could substitute it for ground beef in my spaghetti. Big fat nope! I opened the package, and it smelled exactly like dog food. The smell when cooking it was horrible. It completely ruined my batch of spaghetti. I don't know how people are cooking this stuff and enjoying it. Maybe there's some other way to cook it or season it? As someone who isn't much of a chef, I don't know what to do with it. Go to your favorite search engine, search for "Beyond Meat Smells..." and check out the autofill. I know I'm not the only one.
- jandrese 6y agoYeah, the artificial smoke flavor makes it useless for anything that isn't supposed to taste like it was on an open flame grill. I tried using the Beyond ground burger substitute for tacos once and all I could taste was that stupid smoke flavor. The Impossible ground burger substitute is far more versatile, but harder to find. None of my local grocery stores carry it.
- phonypc 6y agoThere is no smoke flavouring in Beyond Burgers.
- fshbbdssbbgdd 6y agoMaybe people are getting spoiled product? I regularly use Beyond and Impossible and usually don’t notice any off smell. Once I got a pack of Impossible from the refrigerated section that did smell wrong.
- chasd00 6y agoput it on a charcoal grill and cook a hamburger. It's definitely not beef but the taste is ok for what it is. I think of it like a veggie compromise, not a perfect burger but not terrible either.
- JoshTriplett 6y agoI prefer Impossible Burger as a substitute for grounds, but Beyond Meat also makes things like hot dogs and breakfast sausage, which Impossible doesn't.
- mjamesaustin 6y agoYES, Beyond has some incredible sausage products! I go with them for sausage and Impossible for burgers.
- Spivak 6y agoTrader Joe's tofu based chorizo is also in this space and is amazing as well. If you want something that makes for good "grounds" but don't need it to literally be hamburger then a marinated block of tofu will probably get you there.
- JoshTriplett 6y agoYeah, I've had that one, and it's good. Unfortunately, it's harder to come by because Trader Joe's doesn't allow delivery and doesn't sell their store-brand products anywhere else; I've stopped relying on anything from Trader Joe's store brand for that reason. It also has a specific flavor profile that works in some dishes but not others; it isn't a neutral substitute for grounds.
- redisman 6y agoThose sausages are definitely better than the burger patty to me. I just wish Impossible would get more products out since their burger patty is the first uncanny valley leaping veggie meat I've had.
- RandallBrown 6y agoImpossible makes breakfast sausage. Starbucks has an Impossible breakfast sandwich.
- JoshTriplett 6y ago
- rsj_hn 6y agoIf you prefer the taste of Impossible, wouldn't you prefer that Yum brands select them as their fake beef provider? Why is this good news for the category?