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OMG OMG OMG!!! I've been waiting for this for decades!!! I love animals, but i wasn't able to give up meat, so this is exactly what I've been hoping for!!! I've tried the plant based fake meats like Beyond and Impossible, but they don't even come close to the real thing. My body craves real meat, but my mind hates all suffering, so perfect cultivated meat is my dream!
Please please please i hope this tastes exactly like the real thing!
Well, fancy meeting you out here too!
I’ll be interested to see what my decidedly vegetarian SO thinks about this (I’m mainly vegetarian but am more omnivorous). We opt for Impossible where available, and it’ll be interesting to see if either of us gravitate to it. As of now I’m reacting to it the way I do balut; I’m fine eating duck and I’m fine with egg, but I have quite mixed feelings about the in-between balut. Similarly, I’m fine with chicken and I’m fine with Impossible faux-chicken, but this new in-between real-but-synthetic chicken will take me some getting used to.
Can't wait until this is in grocery stores!
I guess it’s a start, but from the pictures I’ve seen, it looks more like a mechanically separated chicken product than good whole muscle meat. Maybe okay for applications that involve a lot of processing like a breaded and fried thing, or stews/curries where it’s going to be cooked for an extended time with a lot of added flavour. This is a long way from replicating something like a grilled chicken breast.
Last time i checked in on cultivated meat, it seemed like collecting fetal bovine serum required them to do a lot of slaughtering, which kind of defeats the point. Have there been any advancements in that area?
I'm super interested in information about purine levels in the various cultivated meats that will hit the market soon. There's also a company called Wildtype that's trying to get their grown salmon into the market. I've heard it's sushi grade... It would be great if I could eat sushi and steak again. Off to eat my salad now, bye y'all!
I've been watching Wildtype excitedly for some time, I'll definitely jump at the first chance I get to try it!