UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Clearly no taste buds. I cook both and can the difference, texture is so different.
Do angry vegans turn you against going vegan?
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Clearly no taste buds. I cook both and can the difference, texture is so different.
I thought the same, quorn mince is nothing like the texture of beef mince.
souljacker
innit
Or the flavour. You just won't get the meaty flavour with quorn IMO.
andysays
Love and solidarity
It's OK to shit in a pan if you're a vegan though, everyone knows their shit doesn't smell
8ball
Decolonise colons!
I'm not a big fan of fake meat, but this did make me wonder what I'd think if I thought I'd been eating Quorn mince for 18 months, and then discovered I had been given meat mince. Safe to say, I'd be pretty fucking incandescent - mostly because of the breach of trust.
So I think your mate would be entitled to be pissed off (if he was). If a partner did that to me, I think I'd be seriously wondering about the state of the relationship.
History: one of my mum's tricks was to secrete meat-based material into meals, ask me if I'd enjoyed it, and then triumphantly inform me it'd been made with ham stock/whatever. So I'm likely to be oversensitive to that kind of thing...and I am still heartily suspicious of any soup that is on offer
This way round, I wouldn't be bothered if I hadn't noticed.
Though I would notice. I find you can go up to around 50% Quorn mince in a chilli before anyone is likely to detect any difference.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
I don't much care for Quorn anyway, so it's a bit of a moot issue from my point of view
When I make chilli, I don't use any meat substitute, and people quite often come back for more
8ball
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I don't much care for Quorn anyway, so it's a bit of a moot issue from my point of view
When I make chilli, I don't use any meat substitute, and people quite often come back for more
I use puy lentils when not using meat at all, it's *kind of* a meat substitute in terms of its role in the dish.
Idaho
blah blah blah
I also make an excellent veg chilli and don't like Quorn. Grilling the peppers until blackened is one of the secrets. Dark chocolate is the other.I don't much care for Quorn anyway, so it's a bit of a moot issue from my point of view
When I make chilli, I don't use any meat substitute, and people quite often come back for more
8ball
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The right amount of dark chocolate is good in a chilli regardless of whether meat is involved.
8ball
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Some products are vegan, some have egg in.
Since we're talking about chilli - I think you're right about the mince.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
I heard an interview recently saying they are trying to move the entire range over, but without changing the texture of the products to much which makes sense seeing as vegan food is a growing market.
Jeff Robinson
Marxist-Lentilist: Jackboots and Jackfruit
It's not the flavour; cow mince has no flavour, or at least no remotely pleasant flavour. I remember cooking it in my pre-vegan days and just thinking how disgusting it smelled cooking on the stove. It was only after adding all the herbs, spices and vegetables to mask the smell that it started to smell okay. The problem with quorn - if you want the cow mince taste - is the texture. Linda Mccartney Vegemince was a lot better, sadly it's off the market now, but tesco does a pretty good one too.
souljacker
innit
I'd disagree with that. Also, you usually add beef stock which is obviously a no-no for vegans.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Probably because it's arrant nonsense.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Obviously each to your own but just as an example burgers are pretty dam popular and good ones are made with just this and a touch or salt and maybe pepper.
Idaho
blah blah blah
Meat has a great flavour, but it does need hearty seasoning. Beef mince with no salt is pretty bad.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Proper Tidy
Arsed
I can't noticeably taste the difference between quorn chilli and beef chilli but then I can't taste much difference between beef mince and lamb mince once everything else has been lobbed in so assume my taste buds are fucked. Went to a veggie couples barbecue a couple of years ago and had burgers he'd made from quorn mince and they didn't taste right. Or nice.
8ball
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I haven't.
Unless you count sneakily making off with a chicken breast in a bun.
Proper Tidy
Arsed
Chicken burgers are shit imo
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
You should.
8ball
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Of the chicken burger recipes that first jump out of Google at me, none are using chicken mince.
edit - the fifth one is tbf
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
It's not uncommon. Mainstream supermarkets sell it.
Poot
My wife thinks I work too hard
But people make bolognaise and chilli out of it?
It's also quite common in Jewish cookery.
8ball
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They also sell turkey twizzlers and no one makes those at home.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
No. Bolognaise and chilli are traditionally beef dishes.But people make bolognaise and chilli out of it?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Traditional bolognese often had veal and pork in, not beef
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