How do you like meat substitutes?

Question

When I was 15, I once bought a burger made from soy flour out of curiosity. After the first bite, I threw it away. Despite my previous experience, I tried it again. I bought meatballs made from meat substitutes for lunch, fried them, and ate them. Apparently, vegan dishes are supposed to be particularly good, but I didn't notice any of that. The meatballs were suitable for children, meaning they were practically tasteless. After I added salt, pepper, and mustard, they were edible for me, but nothing more. Have you had similar experiences?

tbhidgafby · Answer

Be vegan and I love meat replacement but no tofu

peterp58 · Answer

I tried - as a cook - from interest too! Short conclusion: NO!!!

waniklas · Answer

Depends on the meat substitute. There are good alternatives for mortadella and meat sausage. The sausage alternative of Gutfried tastes. Burger patties are getting harder. The vegetarian schnitzel, nuggets from Mühlenhof or so are also ok

verreisternutzerz3alrz4yxo3yrji5nm6o · Answer

No, I don't like the most delicate fake meat. Fad, dry, stupid consistency.

I like Quorn (is vegetarian, not vegan, is bred from any mushroom and reminds me with its firm consistency away from chicken meat).

Falafel also goes, but I do not see it as a meat substitute," but rather as something completely own.

kawaslhoch4 · Answer

Quite honestly, most simply tastes disgusting, but garden gourmet has really good products or from Rügenwalder Mühle or so the Salami also tastes mega.

rendric · Answer

Very different. You really have to try out with different replacement products and brands.

I like the vegetarian or vegan sausage of beet forests. The vegetarian is egg-based and therefore very meat-like.

We used to have soy roast sausages, I didn't find them delicious. The main problem was the soft wiping consistency.

Vegetable beef was very dry. The child liked to eat them, we don't grow up.

Hack"meat" I already had good. Must have been on pea or lentil base. And last but not least we had the root of beet forests. This was also tastefully delicious, although much more crumbling than genuine meat.

I'm rather a bow around Tofu and Soya… well, you have to test it. I have more trust in products consisting of pea or lentils.

kaenguru249 · Answer

partly. On the one hand there are things that taste very good to me (even sometimes better than the meat variant). On the other hand, some things sometimes don't taste so good, but I also like meat dishes.

In my opinion, it always depends most on the quality of the ingredients, and on how good the cook is.

warehouse14 · Answer

The only meat substitutes that can occasionally be found in my kitchen are mushrooms . And they taste very good. I like to cook pots. And it tastes with meat different from mushrooms. But always best . 😎 You can also make bratlings, etc. from mushrooms... Or use them as an alternative filling for filled peppers etc. 😉 And because mushrooms are almost a middle thing between plant and animal they will simply be what the respective eater wants: meat product or salad plant. 🤡 warehouse 14

ronaid · Answer

Yeah, that usually only has the form of similarity to meat products.
I also like to eat tofu, vegetable burgers or drink soy milk.
But Tofu tastes like Tofu, and that's good too. And if vegetable burgers taste meat, something is wrong.
Last time I had a vegetarian sausage (from protein). Also tastes very good if it is not evaluated according to the carnal expectations. It's a delicious protein stick. The red-brown color should have been saved.

rosswurscht · Answer

I don't think so. Either I eat right meat or animal food or I leave it.

I used to try vegan slices, such as cheese and sausage imitations. You can make it, but you really don't taste it. In addition, this is usually made from quite many artificial ingredients.

If I don't want meat, I eat fruit and vegetables, noodles and rice, fish or bread etc. There are thousands of natural alternatives. You don't have to put anything in the lab together 🧪

philip109126 · Answer

I'm not a friend of meat substitutes. Either right or not.

kiniro · Answer

Vegan burgers are not made from soy flour – just by the way.

The taste also comes from the spices in the animal chop.

I prefer to eat hack without animal, but with taste and it is easy to get into the vegan hack.

But I think the question should provoke something.

hikokuraiko · Answer

Depends on the brand. Some brands I find super good, others I wouldn't even touch if I got them for free.

Eat the finished replacement products but also very rare. Better make my "meat substitute" even from vegetables, legumes, pseido cereals, rice, potatoes or jackfruit or side

littlethought · Answer

One of my favorite mushrooms is the stimulus. It can be found on hikes in the Bavarian mountains even if you don't look for it extra. My absolute local favorite mushroom, the dead trumpet, is very rare here. Greetings from Littlethought.

littlethought · Answer

Shame on me! The mushroom is called stimulus.(Whoever finds typing errors, he can keep them.)

kugelflitz · Answer

I find this industrially produced meat substitute terrible.

Either it tastes after the vegetables processed in it (ie red beds, peas, beans…) or after moist cardboard.

There are really great recipes out there, but this bullshit you can get ready tastes gross.

bella007498 · Answer

He tastes very good to me. I don't like a difference to the right meat for many products. But it is often more expensive, unfortunately. Nevertheless, a good thing for everyone who wants to reduce their consumption

paulsmart · Answer

In 1963 there were already meat substitutes from soy flour?

I am neither vegetarian, nor vegan, but I have let myself say that there are meat substitute products that come tastefully to the original or would taste very good in their own way.

littlethought · Answer

This has also been presented in the other answers. At the moment, I'm going to practice in restraint. By the way: My daughter lives in France. In France, I have never been faced with meat substitutes.