Can A Vegan Burger Satisfy A Burger Lover?

If you are what you eat, it was basically just a piece of meat. I didn't give up meat because I didn't like the taste. I used to eat cold ribs in the morning and now I never understand that. Hello everyone. your girl merle your friendly neighborhood

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today i'm bringing my very good friend alex on the show she used to be a tasty producer and she was a big meat eater. I know her favorite food has always been ham

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s, so I'm going to take her to find the best

vegan

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she has to offer and then I'll show her how to make a wonderful homemade vegan burger and then we'll see which one she likes best. go find alex, hello everyone, now we have another thing in common, alex has been starting a little more plant based.

I'm like I'd say about 98, actually, every time I cook for myself I eat completely plant-based, I actually had a kundalini awakening that I didn't even know existed, but it inspired me to start living more ethically and just It made me a better person to be honest, you used to eat a lot of meat, I used to eat a lot too, tell me a little. a little more about that, if you are what you eat, it was basically just a piece of meat, I ate so much meat at every meal, I felt like I had to eat meat to get protein, when all this happened I thought, oh that's actually lie.

There are so many great sources of protein that are vegan, plus it's so much easier to eat vegan these days. There are tons of options. It doesn't have to mean that you like missing out on food or that you like being indulgent. Really Alex, never, ever, ever. I figured you would, but I will also say that you seem happier now than ever, much happier, I have more energy, it feels great, so I know back in the days of eating meat, you loved a good burger, I still have plenty. nostalgia for coming in and going out like a simple bun with butter they have their secret sauce it's like a thousand islands I would always order a double double so you get two burgers there I'm going to have this burger joint that's like the vegan equivalent of a fast food restaurant Monty's good burger welcome to good homemade burger good very good I will take your order yes let's do that it's really made for meat loving vegans yes that's me I didn't give up meat because I don't like the taste I like it good Okay, I'll stop wiping your tears with burgers at Monty's.

Our overall goal is to provide a 100 plant-based menu for everyone, not just plant-based people, and promote sustainable lifestyle and eating habits, so why did you choose to use the Impossible Burger? We started using Impossible Burger 2.0 as soon as it came out. We are one of the first 20 stores to start it. It looks like real grilled meat. It has that blood. it bleeds like meat, it really has the same texture and flavor, we have plant

lover

s that come in and are excited to try a burger that actually tastes like a burger that they love and then other people that are kind of interested and we educate them on what really good to eat this burger instead of a normal burger.

It's 80 fewer environmental resources and tastes just as good. What is the best selling item? I must say that you have to dig a little deeper and dig deeper. our secret menu oh my goodness how is this on and off a secret menu the max fries are great but my personal favorite on the menu has to be the strawberry milkshake its out of this world i think What's really amazing about Monty's is that we're not just for vegans. I have a menu that is simple and familiar to many people. I mean, hamburgers and cheeseburgers are American favorites.

Everyone is much more tempted to come in and maybe see something exciting or different. a plant based menu and lifestyle let's eat let's see oh my gosh oh my gosh this looks so familiar oh my gosh that looks so good I'm not even going to wait I'm sorry I didn't smoke too long that's right oh my gosh , I didn't make it clear to you, I know you have the full experience of eating a burger, which is what you want, don't give me more black bean burgers, no, these are delicious dreams, this is like a night, yeah.

How long are you open? I am beautiful. I really know it's not me, but I'm a little worried that maybe it really is this. What are you doing? How do you put the fries on the burger? This is like an extra crunch. As I did? Doing that was amazing, not everyone is lucky enough to have bushland on their doorstep, so I'll have you follow me back to the studio and we'll try to make a burger ourselves that compares to this, let's see if we can. Do it, we can know we have some batteries. I know I'm wondering: can I take a nap first? because I'm pretty full.

So what we are going to do now is prepare you the most delicious one. oh homemade vegan burger, I don't know, I mean, I just had a pretty good burger, so okay, I brought you to montes to try if it was just the appetizer, this will be the main dish. I've had a lot of talks, girls, so this is a competition. OK. So the key to having that delicious meaty texture that you want in a vegan burger is tofu, believe it or not, nothing meatier than tofu. Sometimes these things come together to create a beautiful harmony. trust you you're vegan longer than me and that's how it works if I'm going to be longer I'm a better vegan like the teacher and I'm the cricket it's the cricket that learns is that what you are with the cricket so I What I'm going to ask you to do is crumble this tofu like a ground beef crumble, yeah, okay, it looks a little bit like ground beef if it were a completely different color and maybe it smelled completely different and maybe it had a little bit of blood in it, just a couple of adjustments, then we'll freeze it because when we freeze it the water molecules expand nicely, okay?

Like, oh my gosh, that's so cool and then when we thaw them, that's what's going to give it that meaty texture. We want to freeze this for about six hours, okay, so we have some time, but luckily we have a magic freezer, oh, okay. We also have a little movie magic, you know what I mean, look at that, it's weird, it looks like it changed color, oh yeah, this is frozen tofu, so what we're going to do, we finish with this thought and then we go a Go prepare the royal burger. When I'm eating a burger, you want it to have a lot of meat, so mushrooms are your friends.

I have a very special place for mushrooms in my heart because I started learning about them and how smart they are. They are so smart that it is called like the Earth's Internet, they are connected, so today you will show your appreciation by grinding them into a fine paste, well, okay, that's what you should do, so we have the shiitake mushrooms we have some nuts that will give us the meaty texture and then we have a little bit of garlic to give it flavor oh, I love it, who doesn't think that's good, there she is, yes, it's a cake, it's a paste, here we go. add some fats, we have a little vegan butter and a little olive oil.

If you don't have vegan butter at your disposal, you can use more olive oil, so we'll put our pasta in there, a fresh and tasty pasta. I will get them delicious and crispy. It's like our meat. I'm a little surprised that it's crispy. I know it looks like ground beef. Yes, it really is. I'm going to move on. and add what we have here, which is soy sauce. I love soy sauce. We have some Worcester sauce, which is a vegan Worcester sauce, I should say as well, and then we have liquid smoke. A little smoke, it goes a long way, oh my goodness. it smells so good so we have our little shiitake nut mix let's set this bad boy aside add some vegan butter and a little bit of oil the cool onions will soften them up okay so the place of the Tomato will also give us that umami flavor that we want. looks pretty good good morning even better oh yeah now you're going to scrape our tomato paste and onion mixture into the processor and we're going to add some brown rice for a little bit okay and then the most important part of this process.

What's beet, baby? So the beets are going to give us that damn blood, yes, that's blood. How strange that we humans, who want all these damn things, still seem damned. Wow, so I'm going to put our mushroom and walnut mixture in there and then you can put. our delicious beet rice, meaty things that look like store bought ground meat to me, what I'm going to add is a little bit of cornstarch slurry that will be like the edible glue of all of this and then we have a little bit of shortening and then this vital wheat gluten.

Vital wheat gluten is very important to this recipe, very vital, one would say what is going to give us that chewy, meaty texture, this is the one ingredient you really don't want to leave out. so mix that up, vital for babies, wheat gluten is a huge ingredient for many meat substitutes, it's what the big boys are using in the vegan market and they're starting to believe my recipe, listen, this is my recipe now at this point. I've been doing all the work, don't forget our tofu, oh how can I forget? Look, you remember things better when you make them yourself now that we've added the tofu, it's even more like ground beef because it's like fat like these sneaky little white things and a little more protein in a scoop of ice cream, yeah , drop it right into your paw, okay, and then we'll form a nice little burger and then you'll just roll it up and when you've got to the end, you just tuck the ends under and you've got your little one, which leads me to a moment of Trivia: How many average American showers does it take to produce a pound of meat?

Americans probably take very long showers working on it too. 10 10 no, I don't know 120. What happens to a pound of meat? I know, I think it's a little hard when people feel like I can't be vegan because I can't go all the way, but you can start small, like. You can start incorporating meat-free meals into your diet. I think that's what scares people, is that there's this misconception that you have to be black, it's like black and white, you have to be 100 vegan all the time or you're I'm not vegan at all and I have a problem with people who are vegan, especially online, who say, oh, she cheated, oh, she had an egg, or, oh, this, now you're not vegan anymore.

I think there are a lot of great benefits, and as long as you're like sharing about why it's so good, right, that's what you can do, you can make a difference, cricket has become math, jesus, the student becomes Master, have a minute, now, what we're going to do is we're going to take our burgers and then we're going to steam these bad boys. It's interesting that you steam it, that's the best way to cook vital wheat gluten, okay, yeah, throw away that lid, bye, so pick a little friend, okay, and then we're going to just salt and pepper and we'll cook them for about two minutes on each side, look at this spread, so let's assemble our burgers, this is a vegan garlic aioli, click down there if you want, okay, you see these little bunnies.

Very good too, these buns came to play, okay, some lettuce, I love all the colors, tomatoes and pickles, I'm a big pickle girl and then of course we need a burger in there, here we go, cheers, cheers , it's actually really good, it's crazy because it's not falling apart like a lot of veggie burgers do, obviously at Monty's we have the impossible burger which is designed to have a meaty flavor but also get that same meaty experience with the ingredients that we use , which were just really amazing vegetables and plants. I would be 100 million percent satisfied, yeah, okay, here we are at the moment of truth.

We have the classic in-n-out burger, which was your standard for a burger back in the day. That's 10 for you in the old days of eating meat. Just a few months ago, I know well what this one tastes like and I'm trying not to eat meat, so I'm not going to bite into it, but I'm going to refresh my memory with the Maltese burger, although it's okay, oh, look at that. I have to say this one seems a little more

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ing yes, just as good as I remembered. You like that one more than I remember. Okay, I'm going to get back to this baby, our baby.

Oh, it's still so good. They are so different. difficult because there is so much variety in both vegan burgers, it definitely tastes homemade in a good way, it feels light and fresh even though it is as filling as a burger, whereas this one is like an indulgent burger and you know what I mean and also I want to say that this Monte burger uses the impossible burger so you really get that meaty experience, so compared to the in-n-out burger that I'm going to have to make, I'm going to have to say, "Oh my gosh, Alex, I'm going to rate this." one out of eight and I'm going to rate this one out of nine, yeah, okay, that's fair, I totally get it, if you're looking for a burger, you remember the in-n-out burger, this is, this is, yeah, it's shocking.

Sorry mushrooms, yes they will forgive you, maybe they will listen to you, you know they do and you know that if you don't have a bush near you, I encourage you to try this burger, enjoy a weekend and get your kids , look for yourwife and make that burger because it's so tasty, make it in bulk, freeze it, enjoy it all week long all month long. If I can go plant-based vegan, you can go plant-based vegan alex, thanks again, this was a lot. funny let me know in the comments below if there's anyone you want me to invite to veganize something or if there's something you want me to try veganizing for and I'll do my best I'll be back I'm like a human trash can you're a mushroom, yes, that's true, we love it, mushroom shaped alien trash can, great for you.