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These are great in vegetarian 'minced meat' dishes like chili, to add a meaty umami taste. Having said that, Marmite is clearly vastly superior and has a deepe
by jacknews 3y ago
These are great in vegetarian 'minced meat' dishes like chili, to add a meaty umami taste.
Having said that, Marmite is clearly vastly superior and has a deeper umami taste than the slightly fake industrial plastic taste of Vegemite.
Careful though, I bought a jar of New Zealand Marmite once, thinking it was the same thing as real Marmite, given the same brand name, but, it was barely even passable as 'cooking marmite', let alone on hot buttered toast.
- DEADMINCE 3y ago> Having said that, Marmite is clearly vastly superior and has a deeper umami taste than the slightly fake industrial plastic taste of Vegemite. Huh. I'd say Vegemite is clearly vastly superior as it doesn't have that artificial sweetness taste added to it.
- piva00 3y agoBritish Marmite doesn't have any sweetness to my palate, do you mean the NZ one?
- retsibsi 3y agoWow, I just looked it up and there's a huge difference. UK Marmite has even less sugar than Vegemite, whereas NZ Marmite is 16.8% sugar by weight.
- DEADMINCE 3y agoI wonder what accounts for the sweetness in British Marmite then?
- DEADMINCE 3y agoI've never tried the NZ one. British Marmite is noticeably sweeter than Vegemite to me.
- mirsadm 3y agoI moved from Australia to the UK a few years ago. I never liked Vegemite very much before but find myself really enjoying Marmite. There's an off taste to Vegemite, like almost a strange medicinal flavour.
- __d 3y agoI think that's the VB "flavour", a by-product of the original recipe.
- jaredhallen 3y agoAlthough I've been aware of it for many years, I've never had vegemite (or marmite for that matter), and never really knew what it was. Reading this (and watching the video) got me thinking along the same lines as you mention. Seems like it could be interesting used as a bullion/soup base, or maybe used like Worcestershire.
- willmadden 3y agoIt tastes like soggy beef bullion cubes melted in beer manufacturing byproducts. Don't do it.