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[strung out]

Seitan is great as a chicken burger replacement or for fried chicken.

I also had a huge vegetarian meal at a buddhist temple in Malaysia with all the beef, pork and chicken dishes made from seitan. It was delicious.

 

[RubyToogood]

Quorn has gone a bit mushy since they made it vegan.

 

[8ball]

Seitan is great as a chicken burger replacement or for fried chicken.

I also had a huge vegetarian meal at a buddhist temple in Malaysia with all the beef, pork and chicken dishes made from seitan. It was delicious.

Can you tell beef seitan from pork seitan?

 

[strung out]

Can you tell beef seitan from pork seitan?

It was a while ago, so I can't remember, but I think you can get different types of seitan that have different textures, and obviously the sauce plays a big part.

 

[8ball]

It was a while ago, so I can't remember, but I think you can get different types of seitan that have different textures, and obviously the sauce plays a big part.

Cheers - I had the sense I was probably asking a silly question (less silly ones have got me banned from threads in the past).

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Quorn has gone a bit mushy since they made it vegan.

What was not vegan about it before??

 

[8ball]

What was not vegan about it before??

Egg was used as a binder on many types (not all, I think the mince may have been egg free, but not the stuff that needed more structural coherence).

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Egg was used as a binder on many types (not all, I think the mince may have been egg free, but not the stuff that needed more structural coherence).

Oh

 

[8ball]

Oh

They didn't exactly plaster it over the packaging tbf.

 

[gentlegreen]

There being sod all else available I tried a Ginsters vegan Quorn pastie the other week.
I wish I'd taken a photo of it - I can't believe it's actually a thing ...
Might as well have been marinated cardboard.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Quorn has gone a bit mushy since they made it vegan.

Yeah very different texture now

 

[existentialist]

As a Long term vegetarian fake meat has always been my bug bear. I do use quorn mince in Bolognese type meals but only to pas things out really. All the rest is tasteless, horrible texture and pointless. As you say the veg itself is far more tasty.

I like walnuts in things, so for example when I'm doing a lentil, spinach and walnut lasagne, I'll pan-roast and chop a big fistful of walnuts. What I wasn't expecting was that the texture of them in the sauce is close enough to mince for quite a few meat eaters to feel the need to check with me that it doesn't have meat in it.

I cannot abide Quorn, or pretty much any of the "fake meat" products, either because - like Quorn - they're unpleasant in their own right, or - like textured vegetable protein - they've been processed to an incredible degree, or because they're just a bit too damn realistic.

I do occasionally get those "Naked Glory" burgers, although the jury's still out on the excessively processed charge on them.

 

[krtek a houby]

Some seared chicken tonight

 

[Mattym]

Quorn has gone a bit mushy since they made it vegan.

& they no longer do the (frozen) steak strips or certainly not in the supermarkets I go to.

 

[8ball]

Some seared chicken tonight

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Think I’ll pass.

 

[krtek a houby]

Think I’ll pass.

Feel the same about jellied eels, for no apparent reason