World's first lab-grown burger is eaten in London

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World's first lab-grown burger is eaten in London

 

 

The world's first lab-grown burger has been cooked and eaten at a news conference in London.

 

Scientists took cells from a cow and, at an institute in the Netherlands, turned them into strips of muscle that they combined to make a patty.

 

One food expert said it was "close to meat, but not that juicy" and another said it tasted like a real burger.

 

Researchers say the technology could be a sustainable way of meeting what they say is a growing demand for meat.

 

The burger was cooked by chef Richard McGeown, from Cornwall, and tasted by food critics Hanni Ruetzler and Josh Schonwald.

 

Upon tasting the burger, Austrian food researcher Ms Ruetzler said: "I was expecting the texture to be more soft... there is quite some intense taste; it's close to meat, but it's not that juicy. The consistency is perfect, but I miss salt and pepper.

 

"This is meat to me. It's not falling apart."

 

Food writer Mr Schonwald said: "The mouthfeel is like meat. I miss the fat, there's a leanness to it, but the general bite feels like a hamburger.

 

"What was consistently different was flavour."

 

Prof Mark Post, of Maastricht University, the scientist behind the burger, remarked: "It's a very good start."

 

The professor said the meat was made up of tens of billions of lab-grown cells. Asked when lab-grown burgers would reach the market, he said: "I think it will take a while. This is just to show we can do it."

 

Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, has been revealed as the project's mystery backer. He funded the ?215,000 ($330,000) research.

 

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[The Evil Overlord]

Funnily enough I remember reading something as a child in a collect yourself encyclopedia (if you can call it that) Called 'Discovery', it mentioned pro's and cons of gm food as a whole

[HawkMan]

The problem with this, even when they can grow it in full 3d and do proper beefs and such is always going to be taste.

Lab grown food will taste just mea proteins. Whereas real meat gets taste from what the animals eat. Which is why wild animals that have been shot taste better, they have the"wild" taste from the berries and greens they eat in the forest.

[notuptome2004]

The problem with this, even when they can grow it in full 3d and do proper beefs and such is always going to be taste.

Lab grown food will taste just mea proteins. Whereas real meat gets taste from what the animals eat. Which is why wild animals that have been shot taste better, they have the"wild" taste from the berries and greens they eat in the forest.

 

 

yep sorry to say  but i will continue to eat real meat real burger real everything from a Cow or Deer  or Bear or so because that is who i am.  

[Knife Party]

looks really bland...

[Crisp]

Once you slap it in a bun with cheese and it appears on McDonalds menu, you wont even be able to tell the difference.

[_neutrino Veteran]

looks really bland...

 

i think that has to do more with how it was cooked than the meat itself, the goal here was to cook it without any additives as possible for a raw meat taste to see how it tasted not how the seasoning tasted.

[Tuishimi]

"Tea, Earl Grey, hot."  

 

I want to be able to say "Burger, fat and juicy, on a bun!"