Posted on 12/13/2018 10:17:34 AM PST by Red Badger
The Israeli company Aleph Farms aims to make cuts of environmentally friendly meat that resemble the real thing using animal cells, also called "lab-grown" or "clean" meat. Aleph has now created a prototype steak, the first produced publicly in the world, the company said on Wednesday. While several companies have made prototypes of lab-grown meats, none are available in restaurants or grocery stores. Aleph got its start with help from an Israeli research institute and an incubator that is part of the food giant that owns Sabra — the most popular hummus in America.
For the first time in its roughly two-year history, an Israeli startup claims to have achieved a key step toward the holy grail of the lab-grown-meat industry: turning animal cells into the delicate and sinewy tissue of steak.
Aleph Farms, which got its start with help from an Israeli research institute and an incubator that's part of the food giant that owns Sabra — the most popular hummus in America — said on Wednesday that it had produced the world's first lab-grown steak.
Based on photographs and video, the thin but clearly steak-like cut of beef appears to be a big milestone toward eventually making meat without slaughter that is ready for people to eat.
"The smell was great when we cooked it, exactly the same characteristic flavor as a conventional meat cut," Aleph's CEO and founder, Didier Toubia, told Business Insider.
But the true contribution to the lab-grown meat field, he said, was the steak's texture.
"It was a little bit chewy, same as meat. We saw and felt the fibers when we cut it with a knife."
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The Israeli startup Aleph Farms claims to have made the world's first lab-grown steak. Aleph Farms
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The prototype steak. Aleph Farms
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Aleph calls its prototype steak a "minute steak," because it takes just a couple of minutes to cook. Courtesy Aleph Farms
Yuk.
Aleph calls its prototype steak a “minute steak,” because it takes just a couple of minutes to cook.
—I thought it referred to the size.
So cheese burger?
I see what you did there....................
Pepsi, Pepsi, chip, chip!...................
—I thought it referred to the size.“minute steak,” because it takes just a couple of minutes to cook.
Either meaning is applicable.
Soylent Green is ....
I don’t think this is actually a new thing. I’m pretty sure lab grown “meat” was regularly served to me in high school and college 40 years ago. It was called “meat” and was not identifiable by taste or appearance.
But is it kosher?
Mystery meat has been around for decades and decades.
What may surprise you is that it wasn’t actually ‘meat’ but soy protein.
In HS I was a cook in a national chain of fast food restaurants that served ‘chili’ and I made it every day.
We used cans of soy protein that looked like ground beef, but wasn’t..............
I assume so, it was a ‘cow’ at some point................
It’s not Kosher.
But is it Kosher?
Let’s review the bidding:It’s all a matter of perspective. A family had dinner in our house, and one of their boys discretely told his mother, “This pumpkin tastes bad.” Well, of course - it wasn’t pumpkin. It was squash, and I suppose pumpkin is a kind of squash, just not the kind he was being served. After that was explained to him, everything was fine.
- Youghurt is grown about the same way, and.
- I still remember the reaction girls in my class had to my correct verbal answer to the teacher’s question, “What part of an animal do we call “meat?” Answer: “Muscle.” Classmates: “Ewww!
It’s a “no” from me.
It was a ‘cow’ in the beginning..................
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