I’m serious.
There’s a company called Steakholder Foods, and they’ve created plant-based meat using 3D food-printing technology. Not just burgers or nuggets either.
We’re talking marbled steak. 🥩Filet mignon. Chicken breast.
And the whole point is to make it look and feel more like an actual piece of meat, right down to the fibers, texture and marbling.
So of course I went snooping through the ingredients.
The marbled steak is made with like soy flour, seed oils, methylcellulose and natural flavoring whatever the fug that means, gums and binders.
So basically we’ve figured out how to take soy, oils, binders, gums, starch and flavoring, layer it together with a machine and make it LOOK like a steak.
I don’t know whether to be impressed or terrified. 😂
Which brings me to my question...
At what point did we decide plain old meat wasn’t technologically advanced enough?
Because personally, if my steak needs software and a printer before it hits my plate, I’ve got questions. 🙋
And before anybody comes for me, eat whatever the hell you want. I don't care.
I’m just fascinated that we’ve spent years being told to eat fewer highly processed foods...
while at the same time inventing complicated ways to manufacture food that looks like something it ain't.
That’s the rabbit hole for me.
Would you try a 3D-printed steak?
Because I’ma need somebody else to go first. 😂🥩🫣
