Video: chef prepares first lab-cultured beef
"The first recognizable meat product created using culturing techniques, the Cultured Beef burger is vital proof of concept for meat culturing techniques.
At an event attended by 200 journalists and academics the Cultured Beef burger was cooked and tasted live.
The burger was made up of around 20,000 muscle strands grown in Mark Post’s laboratory. The burger was made with a little egg powder and breadcrumbs and a few other common burger ingredients. It was tasted by Mark Post, food writer Josh Schonwald and nutritional researcher Hanni Rützler."
(Video at link)
http://culturedbeef.net/event/
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I'll admit I didn't watch that one hour video...too long. I did look at some of the other pages, though.
How does it taste?
We expect it to taste like a normal beef burger. Accepted food technology methods will be/have been used to adapt the beef’s taste and texture so that it is virtually identical to farmed beef.
When will Cultured Beef be available to buy?
Of course it is hard to predict this sort of thing, but we might see Cultured Beef, and other cultured meats, available commercially within 10 to 20 years.
How much did this burger cost?
The burger cost more than €250,000 to produce as this is still very novel science, but high costs today are a small price to pay for the potential future benefits of Cultured Beef to all of mankind. It is important to remember that Cultured Beef is intended as step towards a solution to some pressing problems in global food production, not just an expensive burger. In the long run Cultured Beef could be cheaper than conventionally farmed beef, and certainly better for the environment.
if it doesn't taste good, and no one buys it, it's not worth much.
Even if they get it to the point where it's cost-effective to mix it 50-50 with real beef it would have a huge environmental benefit (globally, livestock production has a bigger impact on global warming than transportation).
btw thanks for recipe...sounds like a winner
I also like 'em "IN AND OUT" special style--they wrap 'em in iceberg lettuce instead of a bun.
Makes ya feel so virtuous, ya want TWO!
