Who has had an impossible burger?

[Thebobo]

Apparently these are the cool thing to eat so going to try one today my veggie brother swears by it, fake blood and all. Did you like it? Should I bring a doggie bag or a barf bag? I've had the grocer isle veggie burgers and they are eh edible just bland.

 

[KMFJD]

A&W in Canada was marketing a veggie burger, it sold really well at the sale price and they where sold out almost everywhere very quickly. I've had some veggie burgers that werent bad at all...

 

[nakedfrog]

Never heard of it.

 

[bigi]

I've had it once. It was salty, but could not distinguish it from meat burger. Overall, I am 100% for it. It was good.

 

[Thebobo]

For one thing it aint cheap or even close. It's sold at different restaurants, ie its not a chain or anything its just a burger.

Use this to find a location near you https://impossiblefoods.com/locations/

 

[KMFJD]

For one thing it aint cheap or even close. It's sold at different restaurants, ie its not a chain or anything its just a burger.

Use this to find a location near you https://impossiblefoods.com/locations/

Same for the beyond burger, they where selling it for a loss and it sold like crazy, not sure how it's doing at normal prices

 

[mxnerd]

So if they are selling at a loss, what's the point making the burgers?

 

[sdifox]

So if they are selling at a loss, what's the point making the burgers?

It was a promo price. Getting people to try it in the first place.

me I am not interested in faux meat. I'll eat veggie if I want veggie.

 

[herm0016]

they are based here in Denver, and my wife ordered one for lunch on Monday at a local place that was trying it out. It was good! it had a nice texture, like a bit finer gound beef. the sear on it was crispy and tasty. it had that little iron flavor like beef too. I have a pretty good palette and it was a close approximation of good beef flavor, but I would never call it indistinguishable. That said, the flavor and texture was good and I would consider getting one myself.

 

[mdram]

never had a veggie burger, no plans too

now ostrich, that makes a fine burger

 

[sandorski]

A&W in Canada was marketing a veggie burger, it sold really well at the sale price and they where sold out almost everywhere very quickly. I've had some veggie burgers that werent bad at all...

I quite enjoyed it. Except for a couple bites, it tasted exactly like a normal A&W beef patty. The couple of different tasting bites were very peanutty.

 

[Rifter]

Yeah the A&W one is really good, i dont eat beef much anymore so its especially good for me. But in all honesty its hard to tell the difference between it and real beef and most veggie burgers i can tell immediately.

 

[BUTCH1]

They are not for sale yet in stores, only at restaurants. We have some samples in the freezer at work, ( I work for a food distributor), I might ask my boss for a sample.

 

[Thebobo]

Awesome, best veggie burger I ever had tasted and feels just like ground beef but @ $16 for the meal it aint gonna be often. Some would say it is impossible.

 

[ImpulsE69]

So how many years before we find out that it causes cancer?

 

[BUTCH1]

Awesome, best veggie burger I ever had tasted and feels just like ground beef but @ $16 for the meal it aint gonna be often. Some would say it is impossible.

Yea, it has had very positive reviews and feedback but the have to eventually get the price somewhat close to a beef pattie. It might just need more time for them to ramp up production to get prices lower.

 

[sdifox]

So how many years before we find out that it causes cancer?

Newsflash, everything you eat increases your chance of getting cancer.

 

[Kaido]

I've had both the Beyond Burger & the Impossible Burger:

• They're not bad.
• I've had better veggie burgers.
• For a direct "meat" copycat, if you load them up with enough toppings & a bun, it's a reasonable facsimile of something from a fast-food chain.
• They were kinda pricey.
• I wouldn't order them again. Not because they were terrible, just because they were pricey & I like real beef better (both the texture & the taste).

Impossible Burger has an interesting little documentary on "heme" that's worth a few minutes to watch:

 

[pete6032]

There are 6 places within a 15 minute walk of me that sell these. I may have to try one out.

 

[pete6032]

So if they are selling at a loss, what's the point making the burgers?

Proof of concept so they can find venture capital to scale up production and lower cost.

 

[Thebobo]

I've had both the Beyond Burger & the Impossible Burger:

• They're not bad.
• I've had better veggie burgers.
• For a direct "meat" copycat, if you load them up with enough toppings & a bun, it's a reasonable facsimile of something from a fast-food chain.
• They were kinda pricey.
• I wouldn't order them again. Not because they were terrible, just because they were pricey & I like real beef better (both the texture & the taste).

Impossible Burger has an interesting little documentary on "heme" that's worth a few minutes to watch:

Thanks for the video. Just imagine in the future with lot less cattle farms for beef. When the figure out how to string the molecules that make the "meat" into slabs so you can have a veggie steak or chop. Hopefully a lot less pig farms, chicken farms ect. And a lot less farms and fertilizers and pesticides into our rivers form fields that grow the food for our domestic animals.

 

[Kaido]

Thanks for the video. Just imagine in the future with lot less cattle farms for beef. When the figure out how to string the molecules that make the "meat" into slabs so you can have a veggie steak or chop. Hopefully a lot less pig farms, chicken farms ect. And a lot less farms and fertilizers and pesticides into our rivers form fields that grow the food for our domestic animals.

There is a lot to be said about the future sustainability of food, and there are a lot of really interesting initiatives like Soylent & Vite Ramen (basically Soylent "whole meal" ramen noodles). I think it was the Forks over Knives video that said we already produce enough food to feed 10 billion people, and we have less than 8 billion right now, but our food distribution system is where the problem lies (corruption, dictators, etc.).

We also have incredible growing technology these days. Up in Mass, we have Freight Farms, which is a whole greenhouse in a shipping container that you can buy as literally a turn-key farm:

https://www.freightfarms.com/

Over in New York, we have Farm One, which is an indoor vertical hydroponic farming company that uses LED grow lamps:

GE has a 25,000 square foot facility using a similar technique:

https://www.ge.com/reports/post/91250246340/lettuce-see-the-future-led-lighting-helps-farming/

The benefits are astounding:

1. Produces 10,000 heads of lettuce per day, regardless of the weather or season outside

2. Typical crop farms have a 50% yield (which means a 50% loss); this method reduces food waste to just 10%

3. Through temp/humidity/irrigation control, the indoor farm cuts water usage to just 1% of the water needed by an outdoor field

Cupcake in a cup coming your way soon!

 

[PianoMan]

First saw the Impossible Burger offered at Umami Burger in Pasadena, and ordered it for my son who needed to eat something other than fast food beef sliders.

That burger was better tasting (in my opinion) than my regular burger. Gonna get it next time I’m up in the area...

Oh yeah, I’ll forgot the price; but I recall it not being cheap.

 

[Thebobo]

There is a lot to be said about the future sustainability of food, and there are a lot of really interesting initiatives like Soylent & Vite Ramen (basically Soylent "whole meal" ramen noodles). I think it was the Forks over Knives video that said we already produce enough food to feed 10 billion people, and we have less than 8 billion right now, but our food distribution system is where the problem lies (corruption, dictators, etc.).

We also have incredible growing technology these days. Up in Mass, we have Freight Farms, which is a whole greenhouse in a shipping container that you can buy as literally a turn-key farm:

https://www.freightfarms.com/

Over in New York, we have Farm One, which is an indoor vertical hydroponic farming company that uses LED grow lamps:

GE has a 25,000 square foot facility using a similar technique:

https://www.ge.com/reports/post/91250246340/lettuce-see-the-future-led-lighting-helps-farming/

The benefits are astounding:

1. Produces 10,000 heads of lettuce per day, regardless of the weather or season outside

2. Typical crop farms have a 50% yield (which means a 50% loss); this method reduces food waste to just 10%

3. Through temp/humidity/irrigation control, the indoor farm cuts water usage to just 1% of the water needed by an outdoor field

Cupcake in a cup coming your way soon!

Cool thanks for the info, I have a hard time watching that movie not because its not good but because it hits a little to close to home in my family.

 

[Jeeebus]

read this thread in the morning and voila, an "impossible burger" on the menu ($15) at the place we went for lunch.

My review: I ordered the beef burger like any non-Commie would.