The best burger in the world has been announced - and it's meat free

[SpookyFrank]

I don't know why that photo ended up attached to my post there btw, it isn't at all relevant to this thread and I didn't intend to post it - I think I did a clumsy thing and attached it to the post by mistake.

It is a view from Newlands Corner looking towards the area I grew up, I was trying to post it on another thread earlier, but it ended up here by accident.

Looks lovely though.

 

[Epona]

Looks lovely though.

It is lovely - I was posting it somewhere else earlier, and it got posted on this thread when I was a bit clumsy on the keyboard, I pressed something and it was there in the thread and then I didn't know how to remove it - but is is beautiful, I grew up in the middle of all those trees

To get back on track - burgers are great!

 

[kabbes]

It’s a photo of my backyard. Well, not literally my backyard, obviously. But it’s the woodland and fields I look out on when I look out my windows

 

[Epona]

It’s a photo of my backyard. Well, not literally my backyard, obviously. But it’s the woodland and fields I look out on when I look out my windows

I have lived in London surrounded by concrete for so long. We are not without trees though, there is a massive Ash outside and a Beech beside it - I just feel as though this is not my life though.

 

[Cid]

Picked up a couple of Beyond Burgers from Tesco today. Weirdly just in my local Tesco extra (no I don't live in Kensington). Cost a bloody fortune (£5 for 2), but thought I'd give them a try. And tbh they weren't bad... Texture was decent, flavour ok. Probably should have taken some pics, since I'm unlikely to buy them again for while (due to cost), but hey. For context I eat meat, but am intrigued by things that might actually be effective in limiting consumption... This was the closest I've come to something that could actually substitute a burger patty (as opposed to being a kind of burger equivalent).

Think I might give the Meatless Farm burgers a try next, they being half the price. They also do mince and sausages (though tbh I'm quite a fan of Linda McCartney red onion for sausage-adjacent foodstuffs). I think I might also have a go with some marinades, and using them in other dishes.

But yeah, overall a worthwhile experiment... Hopefully get a chance to try them on a barbecue before the cold sets in.

 

[dessiato]

The lidl vegan burgers are quite good for something is almost but not entirely like a beefburger.

 

[gentlegreen]

If I was to buy a vegan burger I would need assurances that it didn't taste like meat.
Maybe I'm an even smaller niche market.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

If I was to buy a vegan burger I would need assurances that it didn't taste like meat.
Maybe I'm an even smaller niche market.

Aldis bean burgers are good.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

I finally tried the beyond burger last week. I haven't had a beef burger for a decade now and had kinda forgotten what they tasted like, but this really brought it back, the texture is just spot on (as far as I can remember) and a cut above all the other vegan burgers I've tried in terms of its proximity to meat.

 

[moose]

I've never really liked meaty-textured vegan food, so some burgers and sausages are too much and I can't eat them. I don't remember what meat tastes like. However old school bean burgers are increasingly difficult to find. Whatever your views on Dale Vince, Devil's Kitchen are quite nice, particularly the shiitake mushroom burger, when slapped in a bun with all the trimmings.

 

[Epona]

If I was to buy a vegan burger I would need assurances that it didn't taste like meat.
Maybe I'm an even smaller niche market.

I don't think that's too unusual, OH doesn't like stuff to taste exactly like meat. He wants a burger shaped item that tastes great and fits well in a burger bun. He tends to prefer spicy beanburger type things (if they are nice ones, not shit ones - of which there are unfortunately plenty)

 

[gentlegreen]

At the moment the only way I can stay at a healthy weight is to have plain beans for my "protein".
I used to get through a 4 pack of Aldi spicy veggie .burgers over a weekend. (no fridge).
Perhaps one day I will have the discipline to vary my diet.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

I don't think that's too unusual, OH doesn't like stuff to taste exactly like meat. He wants a burger shaped item that tastes great and fits well in a burger bun. He tends to prefer spicy beanburger type things (if they are nice ones, not shit ones - of which there are unfortunately plenty)

As a meat eater I quite like the Aldi spicy bean burgers as they aren't trying to pretend to be something they aren't.