Beyond Burger

Open a window when you fry it, smells funky. Report back because I made it for someone else and didn't taste it.

Yes, it's nice and juicy; great 'mouth-feel' (I hate that term, though). A bit off, and more expensive, but it's better than supporting cow slaughter.

I did not care for it , nor did I care for the impossible burger. My favorite veggie burger is the NutBurger, which, although doesn't quite simulate the texture of real meat, has a much better taste.

Fake meat may save the world, but it's still kinda creepy.

At least it's not those veggie burgers that taste like lawn clippings.

I understand your feelings, R4. But I've been to slaughterhouses.

A plant sandwich isn't as creepy as watching a screeching mammal hanging by its hooves from a hook as its guts are split open.

(But I eat poultry and fish, so I'm a bit of a hypocrite.)

Overall, I like Boca Burgers the best. I have heart disease and have been doing so much better plant-based, but have no real agenda. A burger is some other things like an onion slice and good mayo or mustard, lettuce, tomatoes, but I’m not going back to the bleeding produced by beet juice, or by cow meat, anytime soon.

Yep. I actually thought it was better than a beef burger. Gotten a few omnis to try it and they liked it, but weren't as convinced as me.

I love them. I think that they taste great. Granted, they’re not meat, but they are damn close.

And I’m like you R5 — I still eat poultry and fish. But I no longer eat beef, pork, or any red meat.

I used to like Gardenburgers but I haven't seen them in years. I have yet to find a veggie burger that really satisfies.

They're delicious. I season my patties with soy sauce, onion powder, garlic, smoked paprika, black pepper, and liquid smoke. I'll pick them up at Carl's Jr too if I'm in a drive thru situation.

I didn't care for the Beyond Burger. It smells weird (kind of like cat food) and tastes nothing like beef. To me vegetarian chicken tastes much more like real chicken.

I tried the Impossible Burger. It seemed pretty close to my 40+ year old memory of meat. I switched back to regular veggie burgers.

I haven't tried Beyond Burger, but I used to eat a couple of different brands of vegetarian burgers. To be honest, I was never too impressed, and finally gave up on them. Now, I'll make portabella mushroom sandwiches if I'm avoiding meat (most of the time).

I like them. I'm so impressed - no cholesterol yet super delicious. Had one today at Veggie Grill.

Taste is awful, nothing like meat and it is loaded with GMO ingredients.

I tried them and I am a hard core steak, burger kind of guy. Not bad, actually surprised they taste really close and beef and they look pink in the center and the texture is right too. I did cheat however and put my custom steak rub on therm so that really made them taste good. Normally I hate vegi burgers, turkey burgers and that god awful vegans answer to a burger patty also known as a giant mushroom. All of those suck! My only gripe with possibly adding this into my food rotation is the price. Pound for pound they are about 3 times the price of ground beef. Not that big of a deal since I don't plan to eat them every day but for some it might be.

Spoiler alert = Ingredients say something about actual meat juices for color or flavor.

I like veggie burgers that are a potato patty. Yum.

There are no meat extracts in this. It uses beet juice for color.

"Water, Pea Protein Isolate*, Expeller-Pressed Canola Oil, Refined Coconut Oil, Rice Protein, Natural Flavors, Cocoa Butter, Mung Bean Protein, Methylcellulose, Potato Starch, Apple Extract, Salt, Potassium Chloride, Vinegar, Lemon Juice Concentrate, Sunflower Lecithin, Pomegranate Fruit Powder, Beet Juice Extract (for color)"

A GMO nightmare

I tried Beyond Meat burgers one did not satisfy me I have to eat 2 burgers. The taste and texture is very good.

Beyond Meats burger is pretty good. I've had them a few times. They also have Sausage, which is excellent in flavor and texture.

I like the Beyond Burger taste better than impossible burger. Beyond is juicier

If you have to put all that shit on them R10, then why not just eat rat?

Bottom line, or protein isolate is not food. It is an engineered chemical not found in nature derived from GMO sources. They somehow bribed the regulators into not having to reveal the process.

If you don’t need, want, or like to eat meat, then don’t eat it. But stay away from fake food, unless you really want Soylent Green to happen sooner rather than later.

Get ready though for the hype machines for what’s coming next... cancer burgers. “Beef” cancer cells grown uncontrollably in the lab so “meat” can be regularly “harvested”.

That these things aren’t summarily dismissed by consumers shows how mentally modified we’ve become. Thanks Google.

We’ve really lost our way in the world.

^^^ pea protein isolate

But are they that much healthier in terms of calories, fat and carbs?

It's excellent, but only in its newest version -- the older one wasn't as good. Likewise, the Impossible Burger is also great -- and again, only its its new form which just came out a few weeks ago.

The idea that you can have a juicy burger without having to put cows through slaughterhouses is one of the few things that makes me feel good about living in the Trump era.

It's weird -- we're living in a time when we have the worst president in our history, the world seems to be falling apart, climate change is upon us, but we also are living in a time when a great number of people are truly trying to make the world a better place for everyone. Weird.

I wish the rapture would come and take all those Christians away. Then we might actually have a paradise on earth.

I don’t think these plant based burgers have fewer calories but these calories are plant calories rather than meat calories

That they’re trying to “make the world a better place” should tip you off. Fake meat companies are backed by hedge funds and they’re looking to make a profit. In the process they are tricking you by telling you you are a better person for buying it, , but you don’t mind being duped because you’re so dumb .

Abstaining from meat for ethical reasons is honorable. Eating fake meat is not virtuous.

which plant-based burgers are low in salt? Most taste like a lot of salt is added.

These burgers are like any processed food it has a ton of salt to help give it flavor.

DELICOIUS

They're pretty good as burgers and in the new Del Taco Beyond offerings.

[quote] A GMO nightmare

OK. Except Beyond Burgers doesn’t use GMO ingredients. So, there’s that . . .

delicious stuff

I love how the reactionaries screech "Soylent greeeeen!" at the mention of non-meat, while spending a lifetime being complacent about the mass slaughter of animals and the planetary decimation caused by destroying forests for grazing land.

Why not just eat less but better meat? I buy organic meat raised on heavily subsidised farms, locally, in Switzerland. It costs a pretty penny and I don't think I'm destroying the WORLD'S CLIMATE for doing so. Maybe Americans need to push themselves away from the industrial cheap meat trough. Beyond Burger IS a soylent green scenario. People need to stop being such HOGS for shit food. Eat a mellon and a bit of sliced real ham for crissakes!

melon

For those looking for a replacement to gardenburgers, try Amy's California veggie burger.

It doesn't have the funky texture of soy or a grassy taste. If you cook it with a little oil it gets a nice light crunch on the outside.

So, pea protein isolate (whatever that is....I'll google it later) and a bunch of processed oils, salt, and a smattering of other flavorings and stabilizers. Doesn't sound particularly healthy to me. But if people feel good about eating processed lab food instead of animal protein, good for them. I am supportive of people having choices.

Water, Pea Protein Isolate, Expeller-Pressed Canola Oil, Refined Coconut Oil, Contains 2% or less of the following: Cellulose from Bamboo, Methylcellulose, Potato Starch, Natural Flavor, Maltodextrin, Yeast Extract, Salt, Sunflower Oil, Vegetable Glycerin, Dried Yeast, Gum Arabic, Citrus Extract, Ascorbic Acid, Beet Juice Extract, Acetic Acid, Succinic Acid, Modified Food Starch, Annatto

R15 gets a FF for being a liar. There are no GMO ingredients in the Beyond Burger.

The BB is alright as a food based conceit. It comes very close to mimicking the aroma and texture of hamburger. But it's a bit too soft and crumbling, and although the heme flavoring hits your tastebuds and nose and seems genuinely meaty, the savoriness is fleeting. It disappears from your mouth quickly, in a manner that is undecidedly un-meat-like. BB must be cooked at a moderately high temperature to give it a browned crust, or it is somewhat inspid.

Having cooked and eaten all manner of special diets, I'm not sure why the world needs high-tech ersatz Fleischburger that costs more than twice the price of the real thing.

Ever heard of Starbucks, R42?

Of all the faux burgers, I like this one the most.

My favourite veggie burgers are portobello ones and black bean burgers.

Google "Methylcellulose":

[quote] a bulk-forming laxative that increases the amount of water in your stools to help make them softer and easier to pass. Methylcellulose is used to treat constipation and to help maintain regular bowel movements.

Methylcellulose is purified and chemically treated sawdust and/or cotton. It is a common food additive. It is what keeps pregrated cheese from clumping in the package. It has many other uses, delicious and not.

It helps me bottom better

I like Beyond Burgers, so I tried the Safeway version — no thanks. It was just adequate and I wouldn’t buy again.

is it called "safe burgers"?

I like them but they have a lot of oil in them so I am not sure they're actually healthy but if it can reduce the slaughtering of cows I'm okay with it. We will be eating lab grown food from animal DNA in several years anyway.

we eat meat

I want to like them but they taste too much like meat to me (been vegetarian since 2001)

As a vegan, I like the chance to serve my friends burgers that they like more than the mushroom or other veggie burgers I prefer. No one says that they're healthy. They're just a great way to eat a favorite junk food without killing an animal. It's that simple.

Simple is as simple does

R54 why not plan a different menu, rather than burgers, which you would NEVAH go near let alone have for your guests, of course Sheesh!

I have been a vegetarian since I was four, except for things I did not know were meat like hot dogs and tacos. Eating meat feels like eating pets, and there is a bloody taste that makes me ill. I don't like the taste of fake meat because I don't like the taste of meat, so I like garden burgers, and homemade veggie burgers with beans and vegetables.

Now I am loving vegetarian chili that I make in my new instant pot, with vegetables, tomatoes, three kinds of beans and quinoa for texture and added protein.

R45, A few Vegas hamburger-based restaurants serve a super tasty and healthy house made vegetable burger similar to the award winning pioneering one from the Mid West cattle producing heartland. Ingredients include homemade ketchup, roasted garlic and onions, oatmeal, green beans, beets, Italian seasonings. 100% of all the many ingredients are non-processed and natural.

Recipes are online but it's best cooked on a real grill.

delish

[quote]I like them. I'm so impressed - no cholesterol yet super delicious. Had one today at Veggie Grill.

Dietary cholesterol isn't bad for you, gramps. Have you been living under a rock for the last decade?

he's too busy disco dancing to read it

I have no interest in trying these, and I actually like veggie burgers in general even though I'm not vegetarian. In particular, I love the 1/4 lb black bean burgers they sell at Costco & Sam's Club, as well as Morning Star "Chik'n" patties (especially with some hot sauce on them).

I didn't mind it, but it was too oily, and it has too much sodium.

[quote]A GMO nightmare

Except its not. Read the ingredients list before you jump to conclusions.

R54, animals still died so you can have your beyond burger, just not cute ones.

like which ones? also, keystone species? or bottom dwellers?

R65 explain please

Bugs? Ants? Grubs?

I think R65 may be referring to Impossible’s choice to do rat studies which were not required?

Wall Street journal had an article today about the health pluses and minuses of these burgers

When the “peas” are harvested by vast machines, lots of bunnies and other small animals are crushed in the process. This is an inconvenient truth that vegans don’t like to think about.

True, you’re not killing a cow, but you’re offing plenty of other animals.

How do they keep bunny juice off the peas?

They use nappie wipes

[quote]How do they keep bunny juice off the peas?

Is bunny juice listed on the ingredient label?

Just had them last night and they were delicious

Dr. Michael Greger on dietary cholesterol -- he is the only expert in the field worth trusting.

I had one last month. Yes, it tastes and feels like meat.

Nationwide roll out at Burger King next week of the ‘Impossible Whooper.’ With every American DL habitué able to try one, there will soon be some large scale consensus if this is or isn’t DL Certified Fresh.

I’ll do a poll on it.

Sorry! Impossible Whopper.

huh huh. Nut Burger. huh huh.

Impossible whooper is better

I’m a vegan, and both Beyond and Impossible burgers are great. Next up, non-dairy dairy, where they learn how to lab grown whey and casein.

Heaven forbid I enjoy some cows milk! Or a beef burger!

You don’t have to kill the cows to get the milk. Though, admittedly, finding milk from humanely raised and maintained cows is a challenge.

Nigh impossible in the US

I loved the Beyond Burger I tried but the packaging is terrible - excessive amount of non recyclable plastic. I’d gladly pay extra for it but will not but buy again for that reason.

Would it kill them to use something recyclable for their packaging?

r84 come visit!

Stopping in to say I just ate a small "Natura-Beef BIO" (organic) pan-fried steak, and it was delicious. Maybe the world should consider raising beef like this and simply not eating it all that often.

I should say, "raising cows" to "produce beef".

Why does it matter if the beef is raised in a wealthy country where the world's rich hide their money, R88? That has little to do with the issues surrounding meat eating vs not meat eating.

R86, the packaging is the giveaway that this is not a product for people who care about sustainable anything. This is another boutique product for wealthy people. And its investors want it that way.

R90 I disagree. The USA is a very rich country and maybe everyone shouldn't be able to stuff their fat faces with cheap, grossly produced, cruel, ecologically harmful, nutritionally questionable industrial beef. I grew up in the USA and in the 60s and 70s my middle class family didn't consume vast quantities of beef because it was EXPENSIVE and also not part of the culture.

Industrial and cheap food has radically changed American culture, and European culture, too, where Spain became the industrial food producer for example, with CHEAP luscious looking strawberries, etc etc etc. But the culture in rich countries need to change where people eat somewhat locally again, and CHEAPNESS is not the opportunity to pig out on products that are produced with no consideration of ecology.

Every rich country has, now, more or less, in place, an alternative food production system that is local. Even CHINA has a local quality food production supply chain.

The cultural shift necessary is to eat a less of the most costly and difficult to produce calories.

A fake franken burger might appeal to the vegetarians, but why not simply consume a delicious vegetarian burger! Or something else. And if you need a hamburger, buy one raise on a farm raising healthy animals, and PAY for the privilege.

Cheap industrial meat is not a human right, any more.

buy one made from a cow, of course, raised on a .....

I love the nutloaf burger! But NO CILANTRO!!!!

The "Beyond Burger" was most definitely created by "food scientists" and entrepreneurs. Cornell, for example, has a huge food science department and a small nutrition department. Food Scientists create frankenfood for business interests, for agribusiness. That is what they have done since land grant universities came into existence.

A nutritionist will tell you directly there is ZERO NEED for a fucking frankenfood Beyond Burger. EAT WHOLE FOODS, for chrissakes.

If you want a burger, eat an ecologically green raised beef burger. If you are a vegetarian, make something with vegetables.

Food Science products are garbage and have ZERO to do with nutrition, health, or ecology,

It’s fine if you like overly processed junk that tastes like muck.

Female cows are kept in a constant state of painful estrus R84. Basically they are kept pregnant or post pregnant their entire lives in tiny corrals where their nipples are constantly ravaged and get infected. And THEN they’re killed after about four years. It’d be better to be a beef cow and just be killed right off. It’s torture for them.

exactly.

Tried it years ago and thought it was OK. Since someone upthread said they have changed the recipe I will have to try it again. Many of us that are vegan or vegetarian eat fake meat because of the protein. I actually prefer Morning Star Farms chik' n strips. Does it taste like chicken, no, but when you haven't eaten animal for a long time it taste good, maybe an acquired taste. I don't like asparagus, so that might be an acquired taste too.

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The "ooh, scary science" people are like the Marianne Williamson fans. Boogey men are everywhere.

Unless you actually slaughtered your own cow and cooked it, "science" was used to slaughter, slice and ship your meat without it going bad. Preservatives, steroids, dyes, even fillers are used to make meat look sellable and keep it from rotting before it gets to the grocery store.

And if you actually knew what's in the meat, you'd vomit and stop eating it immediately.

I'm not a hardcore vegetarian, but this is gross:

"Antibiotic use in animals is out of hand," said Dr. Gail Hansen, a veterinarian and senior officer for the Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming, a project aimed at phasing out overuse of antibiotics in food production. "We feed antibiotics to sick animals, which is completely appropriate, but we also put antibiotics in their feed and in their water to help them grow faster and to compensate for unhygienic conditions. If you have to keep the animals healthy with drugs, I would argue you need to re-examine the system. You don't take antibiotics preventively when you go out into the world."

none of that is news

Don't buy that garbage meat, R102.

Michael Greger is a vegan propagandist and quack.

R102, antibiotics are used on factory farmed animals because they are fed a diet of corn. Cows were evolved to eat grass. Corn irritates their digestive system and causes gut infections. Pasture raised/grassfed cows don't have this issue.

Antibiotics are used in farm animals because they are constantly infected by EVERYTHING because they are kept in inhumane and disgusting conditions, and then fed to you.

You really need to wake up and think about what you’re fucking eating, and what you’re doing to the animal world, for no real fucking reason other than your appetite and greed. No, you don’t need animals for your nutrition. Period.

And when you’re told by the animal slaughter industry that animals are kept in humane conditions before they’re killed for your consumption, THEY’RE LYING TO YOU.

An absolutely repulsive story that is the tip of the iceberg from the Times today.

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I tried it and really wanted to like it, but it was awful.

I ate it and it was great

R105 is a shill for the meat industry -- they actually have hired interns to comb through boards like this and decry any comments that don't promote meat eating.

Shoo, shill.

I'm eating a beyond burger as I type this!

Your keyboard must be a drippy mess.

I had a beyond burger which was good while I was eating it...after I was done...not so much. It had an odd aftertaste for me that lingered way too long. Yuck is all I remember of it now

Eat meat!!