yeah I’m a proponent of more plant food and I also don’t think the taste argument holds up, especially because taste is so subjective
that being said, for burgers specifically, I think most people don’t realize just how much of the flavor heavy lifting that fixings and condiments do. I remember making a lazy bitch college “meal” of black beans in a bowl with ketchup and mustard (the only condiments I had), and being mindblown that my bean bowl tasted like a burger. I regularly purchased meat back then, but that experience got me into cooking bean and other vegetable based burgers (certainly easier on the college kid wallet)
Spices are everything. You can do miracles if you know how to use them.
We regularly do “oat days”, where you get 80g of oat flakes for breakfast, lunch and dinner each, to be mixed with half a liter of hot tea or broth. Small(!) amounts of fruit and veg are allowed, but no fat or dairy. Without spices, this would be plain torture. With spices, you can even turn this into tasty dishes.
yeah I’m a proponent of more plant food and I also don’t think the taste argument holds up, especially because taste is so subjective
that being said, for burgers specifically, I think most people don’t realize just how much of the flavor heavy lifting that fixings and condiments do. I remember making a lazy bitch college “meal” of black beans in a bowl with ketchup and mustard (the only condiments I had), and being mindblown that my bean bowl tasted like a burger. I regularly purchased meat back then, but that experience got me into cooking bean and other vegetable based burgers (certainly easier on the college kid wallet)
Spices are everything. You can do miracles if you know how to use them.
We regularly do “oat days”, where you get 80g of oat flakes for breakfast, lunch and dinner each, to be mixed with half a liter of hot tea or broth. Small(!) amounts of fruit and veg are allowed, but no fat or dairy. Without spices, this would be plain torture. With spices, you can even turn this into tasty dishes.