Posted on 02/11/2016 3:52:47 PM PST by nickcarraway
From the ol' Is-That-Even-Possible File: a meat-and-animal-product-free double "cheeseburger."
No beef. No pork. No real cheese.
And it's real good.
Other surprises await: It's much, much harder to acquire the right vegan ingredients that to prepare a patty that looks and tastes like an In N Out original, albeit with a toasted grain earthiness.
The details have a lot to do with it: American "cheese" with similar meltiness and stickiness (Follow Your Heart vegan cheese), well-executed grilled onions, the squooshy bun and "secret" animal-sauce knockoff all contribute to something that honors the In N Out obsession and has at least a dozen orders a night coming in, and staff eating it as much as anything else.
It comes as Chef Jeremiah Tydeman and GM John Ferguson of Alvarado Street Brewery (655-2337) are introducing a new burger menu with five options including the "Kolohe" with grilled spam, pineapple, fried onions, scallions, hoisin and Sriracha aioli and a tasty signature patty melt.
The two others are an Alvarado with Monterey Jack cheese, herb aioli, lettuce, tomato, onion and a Vietnamese lamb burger that's house ground with coriander, cilantro, basil and Sriracha.
Avocado, egg and Baker's bacon can be piled on at $2 each.
The burgers run $12-$16.
The elusive ingredients in the "double double" include Bob's Red Mill textured vegetable protein, whole wheat flour, large flake nutritional yeast and vital wheat gluten.
A regular (and vegan) named Brian Sanford supplied the recipe, which has led to a number of discoveries, including:
1) Jack in the Box allegedly uses that textured vegetable protein in its tacos (which most assume is processed mystery meat) and
2) Worcestershire sauce isn't vegan, thanks to an anchovy input somewhere along the way.
In related news, construction of the Alvarado Street Brewery grill and beer garden in the back is ongoing, and looks like a month and change from completion.
Which is about the same timeline for In N Out in Seaside.
Eaters have the burgers to tide them over until both.
Vegan ... ptui!
Eww. I’m vegan, but I didn’t make the change to eat highly processed crap.
Skip the pineapple and that would be quite tasty. The vegan burger? The human brain is capable of deluding its host that something tastes good. But there are limits for most of us.
>The burgers run $12-$16.
This must be near some leftist utopia city. No thanks, I’ll hit McDonalds or Wendys instead.
All that time and expense, all in an effort to make us into another India, with people going hungry as a literal ton of food walks down the street, because cows have eyebrows.
I wish they made lettuce,tomato and a buns out of bacon.
India has plenty of people that eat meat.
When I think of India, I see feces in the streets and shorelines. That they resist islam is good, but they need serious birth control. Tis better to decrease the bad than to overpopulate with the good.
A regular beef burger is better for you than eating a lot of textured vegetable protein and gluten.
Porterhouse steak. The very best.
Why are vegetarians always trying to make veggies taste like meat?
You know what tastes just like meat?
Meat.
Bingo. All this trouble to take tofu and try and make it taste like bacon or a burger. Why not just use bacon or a burger?
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