LOVE THIS VIDEO for so many reasons! JP's enthusiasm is unmatched! I can't believe you took all the breading off hahah! I do the spoon pour like that so people can see the ingredient a bit more lol
@@SauceStache Wow , thanks for all the work on this vid . I don't normally eat meat but did start eating a little bit of chicken very rarely in the past few months . I'd love to know what in the world it is my neighbor gave me before she moved that I put in my freezer and thawed out . She said it was chicken and it's these long skinny rectangular pieces that felt spongy after they thaw out and they tasted so -so , nothing great after I cooked them . Clue , it reminded me of the same crappy chicken they used about 11 years ago at Subway when I used to eat there and that felt spongy also . Any ideas what that was ?
This was a lot of fun to watch. I do personally feel that a lot of companies put the flavors into the breading so even though I was initially surprised that all breading was removed for the experiment, it makes complete sense. I’m glad it was really fun for everyone
Just want those that have been asking how I'm doing to know that my cancer has NOT spread!!!! Thank you for all of you prayers and helpful ideas. Thank you so much!!! So chemo is next week!!!! Thank you Mark and monica for some great recipes that I truly believe have helped me!!! Thank you!
Great way of seeing what people actually think of these vegan products. Such a sense of fun and togetherness too, nice to see supportive friends helping you two out. This really suits your channel.
I really love the fact you didn't just make a taste test but also showed us an amazing way to pimp up ANY store-bought chicken with some homemade sauces! Plus, you made this experiment very fair for each brand even though you had to spend nearly 3 years in the kitchen to do so :D But at the end of the day, I am just glad you had such a great time at that party! . Anyways, sending you lots and lots of love! Have a great weekend!
Margaret!! Thank you so much! This was fun... and yeah a TON OF WORK hahah but Im hoping its a cool way to show that people can enjoy these vegan chicken nuggets without sacrificing taste and texture! Have a great weekend! Lots of love back as always! You're the best
interestingly, Quorn have been making meat analogues from fungal protein since the 80s, and has been pretty popular in the UK for decades. I'm not sure why it never took off in the US, but it's funny to hear it being talked about as the "future"
I don't mind red meat and chicken in their vegan versions, but the one thing I just can't stop having is fish and anything from the sea. I'd love you to keep trying to make the perfect salmon!
fish was the last thing I gave up before truly going vegan, although it was totally worth boycotting, fish and crab is definitely the only animal products I'd say I prob miss the most and would love to see replicated better
Some 15? years ago, Morningstar has a veggie salmon. The taste was so authentic that I had a difficult time eating it for probably the first 6-8 times I tried it (I used to love salmon). Sadly it's been discontinued. One thing they did which probably gave it both that fishy ocean flavor and look, was to put seaweed/nori on the bottom, giving it that crisp fish skin look when cooked. Maybe give that a try?
Better for your health, better for the planet, better for the animals, tastes just as great (or better!!) - vegan chicken is the bomb! Thanks for this vid 👍
It’s all a fraud. Unless your chicken eat vegan feed. Not better for the environment. I can raise chickens without killing another animal or clearing the land. To grow veggies the land is stripped and every animal is killed to protect the veggies. Eat more meat.
This is just one of those things that shows you that when you tell people it’s vegan or if they go in knowing it’s vegan they already made up their mind that it’s nothing like it. But when they don’t know they don’t really know (most times). That said, it’s probably good you all know if anyone has a specific food allergy before tricking people into eating something lol It’s like the episode of the Simpsons when Lisa is pressured to eat meat and she runs into the Kwik-E-Mart, chomps down on a hotdog and then Apu tells her he switched them to tofu dogs and no one knew the difference. I think when it comes to processed meat foods like burgers, hotdogs, chicken tenders, faux meat does a good job. It’s the whole cuts that companies like Meati are working on getting good enough that people will choose without feeling like they have to “sacrifice” flavor, etc.
So the food allergies reason is the reason why I didnt trick people into eating fake meat. They new going into the test that they would be trying fake meats and knew what was in everything before had. The only trick was that I told them one of them was real, which none of them were
@@lilly_koii when used with fries or some other savory thing you typically eat honey with, it has more of a nutty taste to me but still has the sweetness of being a fruit jelly.
I really thought Annie's jackfruit would win. My wife and I absolutely love their brand. I was also wondering how Meati would be as well. Mark what did you personally think of Meati?
So personally I thought Meati was incredible... just incredible! Its taste and texture were so spot on to me that I was shocked it didnt win. The big comparison here is that it was a whole cut vs the nugget which is what I think gave it away along with some of the taste. BUT I've cooked it a few times since then, just simply pan seared and its amazing!
I feel like adding real chicken would have made it fair cause in reality it would be the control and maybe some people might have or might not have (we'd never know) favored the real chicken if it the vegan chicken was that similar or that much better than the real chicken. IDK... I'm just a sucker for like formalities but I'm not doubting the tastefulness of these. The sauces look amazing however.
@@Bee-sq4nd One person buying one single cutlet of chicken won't create demand for any single part of modern agricultural farms or factories. Now if you were to buy off a small farmer with limited amount of chickens and far smaller ones at that like my own, then you're gonna not meet demand and you have to increase prices massively to make up for that loss. That said, I have my own chickens that we personally slaughter and eat whenever we choose to. Big plump ones that are well fed. Yeah they die. I think that's what happens when most of our food becomes our food. Plants included. They don't have feelings but they don't do anything anymore other than become food and nutrients for us. I'm sure you wouldn't want to be a part of a massive world issue where the food you consume is causing massive pressure in infrastructures such as water supplies for 1st and even 3rd world countries right? I mean you love Almond milk or even Oatmilk I presume? Yeah it takes more water and resources to produce a single cup of almond milk than it does to produce a few gallons of dairy cow milk. It costs virtually nothing compared to both cows and almonds to produce eggs from a chicken and then use that chicken to feast on later on. It's call efficiency of resources and a lot of these vegan alternatives cost a lot more to even produce than you think and normally don't even provide half as much product for double the price and resources (double being conservative for sake of argument) I kill my food. I know where it comes from and it provides a lot more than trying to find a new way to make an enviornmentally unfriendly product grow to be only 1/10th of what I could produce much cheaper and much faster. In the end you produce more demand for harmful products and even labor from where these plants and products come from. Food for thought.
Honestly, with authentic chicken among the options everyone would have guessed unless everything was cooked a lot. The orientation and consistency of the fibres of chicken are still not fully reproduced by the alternatives, while the flavour profile is not so different. You could misunderstand a chicken burger, not a chicken nugget.
I'm a bit curious about Meati, but slightly wary as I'm wondering how close it is to Quorn (which is the only product, veggie or not, that has ever given me a splitting migraine I think because it's somehow distantly related to amoxacillin). I adore the Gardein products though. Whenever I'm getting those fast food type cravings, I'll go and grab a bag of that from the store, and it knocks them right out. Update: I emailed Meati and they confirmed that the ingredients for their products and the strain of mycelium they use is different from Quorn
Quorn is fungus related, so if you have a mold allergy I would highly recommend you stay away from Quorn. Which is sad....because I've had the Quorn Meatless Patties and Meatless cutlets and I'll be damned if they weren't the closest I've ever gotten to real chicken. Slap them on a bun with some mayo and pickle slices and I could NOT tell the difference.
@@barphh I could very well be wrong! I just know I got the same horrible splitting migraine after eating Quorn that I did with amoxicillin, and one site on the interwebz mentioned something related. Either way, no Quorn for me 😅
@@barphh Didn't know there was a meatless turkey product, it's not on our stores over here. Just meatless chicken and Beef. The beef is not so great, but the chicken products are hands down the closest thing to chicken that I've had.
You said that KFC uses buttermilk and egg for breading the chicken. I worked for KFC for two years as a chef and we never did that... just chicken and secret recipe flour. Or is this all dehydrated into the flour itself? Btw, props on the amazing audio on this video. Too many channels focus on the video and forget completely about the audio aspect.
Been waiting for this for days! So excited to see how you came up with this. I feel like chicken is the funkiest faux meat. Always smells weird, looks weird, or has a funky texture. This look amazing!
Holy crap -- you took the breading off?!?!? I've always been impressed by your dedication and thoroughness, but I think you've bested yourself here (along with your fantastic helping hands). I was tired after watching all this. You and your crew did so much work! Really enjoyed the results -- and I'd love it if you could post the final results (please). I think this would also be fun with something else, like cheese. Side note -- how are you not at 1M yet?! You deserve so much more love. You're seriously so talented, real & fun. And I love how Monica's in every vid. She's the Stan Lee of your videos :P
I hate to say the Raised and Rooted was amazing, like mcd, when they added egg whites. I didn't realize it had eggs until mid bag. After buying the actual vegan ones they just weren't as good. The breading is off. Surely there's a sub for egg whites for that 🤔 I'm glad they took the eggs out but it needed a replacement! Anyhow, I haven't bought them since.
I'm also very interested about the mycelium one : I hope it's the best one 👌 It's good that you tell people there's vegan chicken on the table (I assume your friends would know nonetheless) as, some people can have strange and unique allergies... I've read some threads on reddit about things going sour because people were *literally* tricked into eating a vegan meat and they couldn't handle one of the ingredients (I think it was the seitan) which ended up for them at the hospital. Yes, almost no chance or slim to none it happens but, it's always better to know it's a thing
oh gosh - what if the person was celiac and had seitan, which is basically just gluten? I'm all for introducing vegan options to people but just not down with tricking people.
Yah exactly and yet its extremely rare to be allergic to chicken because its literally an unprocessed natural food. Seitan which is gluten is extremely allergenic to most people regardless if you have celiac or not. These processed vegan foods are extremely toxic and the fact there is such enthusiasm to eating such trash is just insane. If you crave chicken EAT CHICKEN. If it's for moral reasons more animals die from plant harvesters look it up.
@@electron-Volt I had a friend who got horribly sick from impossible burgers because he was tricked into it. He literally has multiple autoimmune issues and only eats beef without seasoning because it's so bad for him. Vegans need to stop tricking people because you dont know who you are hurting.
I truly appreciate all of your effort into making fake meats, but as vegans, we are not as obsessed with substitute meats as we are a complete nutrition. I would love to see recipes that don’t focus so much on substitute meats.
Thank you so much! Really my whole channel is about finding the best, most realistic plant based substitutes. I don’t focus on nutrition because I’m not a nutrition expert and I feel things like that should be left to experts. I’m also not focused on a fully vegan audience as I want to provide plant based substitutes for everyone. Hope that helps understand the channel a little more and what you’ll be seeing from me.
Thank you for your thoughtful reply. You are absolutely correct about not being a nutritionist, nor by any means am I. I love watching your channel, just I guess not as passionate about “fake steak” as you have proven you are and work really hard trying to perfect it which I admire.
When I used to live in Taiwan, I used to buy fresh made vegan meat products at fresh market every morning or afternoon with a very reasonable price, now I move to Malaysia, vegan products, including tempeh and tofu is not that cheap and mostly are not real ingredients, and to buy many of those vegan ready meat is ridiculously expensive and none actually taste that good, always too dry. What you did with the new breading really help to make it better, it is a hard work but it's worth it. I'm now making my own vegan meat too, thanks to many of your video, I learned so much how to make it tasty.
Honey cultivation doesn't harm bees, I don't get the fuss over honey. (beekeeping has other environmental concerns, but that's a whole other topic) Agave isn't very sustainable. I wish folks would just use honey, or something like date syrup (my personal preference) I don't know how much more sustainable it is so maybe try something else.
Great video, but I need to see the RANKINGS! Okay, so Impossible won, but where did Beyond stack up? Lightlife? Would've loved to get a more detailed breakdown of how people perceived ALL the brands. Here in Canada we have access to some of these, but not all, so it would've been great to see how they all compared.
You are so underrated. I'm vegan 6 years now and I just love how you prove how awesome and innovative it is and can be. Thank you! I can't wait til you reach a million, you deserve it.
I like the gardein more than the impossible. The impossible seems too soft to me. I like the Dino vegan nuggets more than impossible too. They have more chew. The impossible are great tho. Better deep fried than air fried
I personally am not vegan, but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy trying a couple of the things you make, and impossible nuggets are super good, and the impossible whopper from BK, was good enough for me to trick my family, they thought BK just had new spices or something. Now I do love mushrooms so I think I'll try that mushroom chicken thing and see how it is, here's hoping it's not ridiculouslu expensive lol. Love your videos, keep up the good work
With all due respect, it’s not exactly your mastery of fake chicken, but rather the tasteless, textureless, mass-produced chicken of this day and age that makes tricking them quite easy 😬
I'm curious if you'd consider tackling something like making chicken breast-- I haven't had any success with seitan and the jackfruit recipe doesn't seem to work as well without the skin, but I'd love to be able to have chicken breast for something like cordon bleu, chicken parm, or hardy stew chunks, stuff of that nature. I love nuggies and I eat a lot of gardein and asian faux meat products, but this nut hasn't been cracked yet to me... same for chops (pork, lamp, steak), or any kind of meat that isn't processed. How do you replicate marrow and grease around a bone? How do you get that texture? Can it be done? I see so many pics on the seitan Facebook but I've never had any luck replicating... Also, love Annie's. Their sausage is SO good.
Have you tried Kim Weston's Butter-Starch WTF seitan method? It works really well for unprocessed meats apparently! Chef TJ is also incredible - he has a RUclips channel under the same name. He's done bone marrow, steak, whole chickens, etc. Kim Weston also replicates the sticky texture between skin and bone in fish using an agar agar solution on his RUclips channel!
I really like when you and Monica taste test. I feel like you two give good insights even when you don't agree, which is so true with all food and drink. I was hoping you two had a separate review of the offerings. 🙏
Love the idea of this vid, love JP and ya'll but, I think you should leave the original breading on. Scientists, such as yourself, probably toiled over what breading ingredients would help both the taste as well as encapsulate the texture. I'm probably overthinking it but ... great video again!
I like these videos, I'm not a vegan but it's great to watch iterative progression with consistently better results and with how well the fake chicken turned out it's pushed me ever closer to killing and cooking all of my meats excluding the venison I already harvest each year.
honestly vegans should eat honey. i mean it is better for the planet and we do like bees . atleast if you eat locally produced honey its better for the climate than imported agave.
hey mark, i'd love to see if you could make a video on vegan gummies? i know agar agar is the most commonly used ingredient, however i've heard they don't have the same chewy texture that gelatin provides, which is really important in my opinion
One thing to keep in mind. Allergens. I'm guessing for these people you knew their allergies. I don't care what food is called. I will pretty much eat anything. As long as it's not one of my allergies. Yellow peas are one, soy is another. I make a black bean burgers, they don't look like meat, I don't care if they do, I just care how it tastes or if it's going to make me ill. I love other alternatives like cauliflower, jackfruit and chickpeas. So it's not necessarily about attitude or perspectives. But what someone CAN or CAN'T eat.
wait so you didn't want to fool people into eating Vegan chicken, so you told them that they were doing a taste test between real chicken and vegan chicken, but there is no real chicken... me think you lost the point along the way, maybe it got eaten with one of the vegan chicken bits! Also what's the point of being vegan if you still crave meat, just be responsible get a chicken and learn not to waste the carcass. I feel this is hypocritical, on a scale from 1-10 it's a 20! Side note if you're eating Fried chicken( btw way too much oil) then isn't that counter productive to being vegan!
Try the Daring chicken. I'm a chef, and with most vegan or vegetarian subs, the texture is off putting to me, along with the myriad of ingredients. The Daring chicken is made with 5 basic ingredients and it has a shredable texture that mimics chicken. It' s one vegan sub that I will eat.
For vegan honey mustard, I'm not a big fan of agave so I usually just make a simple one with vegenaise, spicy mustard and maple syrup and that's super good. I guess that makes it more of a maple mustard 😂 I've also made it with dijon mustard which is awesome too
You know, could you do some sauce videos? I mean, I know you just did, but it really makes the difference for my family. I just did a stirfry with peanut sauce, and even though they knew I made fake chicken, they really enjoyed it, esp as leftovers (which doesn't always happen with my seitan). Thank you for all your videos👍👍👍
I live in Tel Aviv- concidered to be one of the most vegan friendly cities in the world. And we don't have even a third of the brands you showed... ( but on the other hand, you can get vegan food literly everywhere in Israel)
The only thing that bothers me about fake meat is that the stuff I can get is always pre-seasoned with all the wrong spices, and it turns out tasting horrible. Even if it was real meat I still wouldn't eat it because of its seasonings.
That's like having a multiple choice question in an exam where there all wrong and u have to not answer to be correct most people would just answer the closest thing to the right answer which is your vegan chicken which may or may not taste like chicken
Thought there’d be something about how that new mushroom chicken tasted. And man I would never go to the lengths you did to remove all the breading and redredge and fry everything 😮💨
I don’t see a problem with feeding meat eaters vegan chicken without their knowledge. Just saving them from salmonella. Also, what’s the big deal, it’s vegetables, grains, or fruit. As long they’re not allergic. And do they know what they’d be putting in their bodies eating REAL chicken nuggets? 🤮 Jamie Oliver eats meat and showed how gross chicken nuggets are a long time ago.
So let's just say that this was an epic endeavor that is better than anything any test kitchen ever did. The idea of throwing a party to do it made it really authentic and the trouble you went through to pull it off was outstanding. Your backyard is beautiful. You and Monica are adorable and she was really dressed cute for the party. It's crazy that you don't have over a million subs yet. I'm sure it's bound to come soon since your channel is so professional yet not pretentious in the least. ☮️❤️
Legend has it, JP has never washed his hands
This is very true... I don't recall his hands being washed before this video
LOL!!
i love you both, great channels combine, creates great content, please keep it up like this! low profile
@@SauceStache That explains the "something off with the taste" part
@@SauceStache real chicken would have traces of fecal matter also, so it adds to the flavor if he didn't wash his hands first 😂
LOVE THIS VIDEO for so many reasons! JP's enthusiasm is unmatched! I can't believe you took all the breading off hahah! I do the spoon pour like that so people can see the ingredient a bit more lol
hahahaha oh no I hope I didnt call you out with the spoon flip hahaha everyone does it! I mean I do it too hahah
Both of you guys are awesome and I've made amazing meals because of you two!
Is just egg vegan tho
@@milkonpizza1229 Yes it is
Honestly know which brand I’m going to buy thanks to this taste test
Thank you!!! And thanks for all the help with this video!! Super awesome!!
Love watching both of u guys!
Which brand ?
Impossible?
@@SauceStache Wow , thanks for all the work on this vid .
I don't normally eat meat but did start eating a little bit of chicken very rarely in the past few months .
I'd love to know what in the world it is my neighbor gave me before she moved that I put in my freezer and thawed out .
She said it was chicken and it's these long skinny rectangular pieces that felt spongy after they thaw out and they tasted so -so , nothing great after I cooked them .
Clue , it reminded me of the same crappy chicken they used about 11 years ago at Subway when I used to eat there and that felt spongy also .
Any ideas what that was ?
This was a lot of fun to watch. I do personally feel that a lot of companies put the flavors into the breading so even though I was initially surprised that all breading was removed for the experiment, it makes complete sense. I’m glad it was really fun for everyone
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Sending all the prayers and good vibes your way and sending all the vibes for a quick recovery!! Thank you for the kind comments!
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@One Thank you
Great way of seeing what people actually think of these vegan products. Such a sense of fun and togetherness too, nice to see supportive friends helping you two out. This really suits your channel.
Ahh thank you!! Thank you so much! IT was really a good time and Ive wanted to do this for a while!
Placebo gets us every time
I really love the fact you didn't just make a taste test but also showed us an amazing way to pimp up ANY store-bought chicken with some homemade sauces! Plus, you made this experiment very fair for each brand even though you had to spend nearly 3 years in the kitchen to do so :D But at the end of the day, I am just glad you had such a great time at that party!
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Anyways, sending you lots and lots of love!
Have a great weekend!
Margaret!! Thank you so much! This was fun... and yeah a TON OF WORK hahah but Im hoping its a cool way to show that people can enjoy these vegan chicken nuggets without sacrificing taste and texture!
Have a great weekend! Lots of love back as always! You're the best
interestingly, Quorn have been making meat analogues from fungal protein since the 80s, and has been pretty popular in the UK for decades. I'm not sure why it never took off in the US, but it's funny to hear it being talked about as the "future"
I love quorn
I love it too although the taste IS very unique. They've stopped selling it in Germany though, unfortunately
Quorn isn't in the US?
Yes. I like quorn.
That's my favorite nugget here in the US
I don't mind red meat and chicken in their vegan versions, but the one thing I just can't stop having is fish and anything from the sea. I'd love you to keep trying to make the perfect salmon!
fish was the last thing I gave up before truly going vegan, although it was totally worth boycotting, fish and crab is definitely the only animal products I'd say I prob miss the most and would love to see replicated better
@@garden.of.thistles yeah definitely!
@@garden.of.thistles I went backwards as fish was the first meat I gave up after watching a doco say tuna will be extinct by 2040
Some 15? years ago, Morningstar has a veggie salmon. The taste was so authentic that I had a difficult time eating it for probably the first 6-8 times I tried it (I used to love salmon). Sadly it's been discontinued. One thing they did which probably gave it both that fishy ocean flavor and look, was to put seaweed/nori on the bottom, giving it that crisp fish skin look when cooked. Maybe give that a try?
@@DarkandStormyNight01 Here in Argentina there is nothing close to that. We pretty much don't have any fish replacements
Better for your health, better for the planet, better for the animals, tastes just as great (or better!!) - vegan chicken is the bomb! Thanks for this vid 👍
It’s all a fraud. Unless your chicken eat vegan feed. Not better for the environment. I can raise chickens without killing another animal or clearing the land. To grow veggies the land is stripped and every animal is killed to protect the veggies. Eat more meat.
This is just one of those things that shows you that when you tell people it’s vegan or if they go in knowing it’s vegan they already made up their mind that it’s nothing like it. But when they don’t know they don’t really know (most times).
That said, it’s probably good you all know if anyone has a specific food allergy before tricking people into eating something lol
It’s like the episode of the Simpsons when Lisa is pressured to eat meat and she runs into the Kwik-E-Mart, chomps down on a hotdog and then Apu tells her he switched them to tofu dogs and no one knew the difference.
I think when it comes to processed meat foods like burgers, hotdogs, chicken tenders, faux meat does a good job. It’s the whole cuts that companies like Meati are working on getting good enough that people will choose without feeling like they have to “sacrifice” flavor, etc.
So the food allergies reason is the reason why I didnt trick people into eating fake meat. They new going into the test that they would be trying fake meats and knew what was in everything before had. The only trick was that I told them one of them was real, which none of them were
Apple jelly (I've only had homemade, might be different bought) makes a great honey substitute for those who can't/don't want to eat honey.
that sounds like a great idea, the fruitiness would be really nice.
@@lilly_koii when used with fries or some other savory thing you typically eat honey with, it has more of a nutty taste to me but still has the sweetness of being a fruit jelly.
I really thought Annie's jackfruit would win. My wife and I absolutely love their brand. I was also wondering how Meati would be as well. Mark what did you personally think of Meati?
So personally I thought Meati was incredible... just incredible! Its taste and texture were so spot on to me that I was shocked it didnt win. The big comparison here is that it was a whole cut vs the nugget which is what I think gave it away along with some of the taste. BUT I've cooked it a few times since then, just simply pan seared and its amazing!
@@SauceStache that's awesome. I want to try some now. Thanks Mark.
I never heard of Annie's jackfruit .... is that the actual name of it ?
I'm going to have to check that out
I feel like adding real chicken would have made it fair cause in reality it would be the control and maybe some people might have or might not have (we'd never know) favored the real chicken if it the vegan chicken was that similar or that much better than the real chicken. IDK... I'm just a sucker for like formalities but I'm not doubting the tastefulness of these. The sauces look amazing however.
Would have also created demand to kill another 7 week old chicken tho
@@Bee-sq4nd One person buying one single cutlet of chicken won't create demand for any single part of modern agricultural farms or factories. Now if you were to buy off a small farmer with limited amount of chickens and far smaller ones at that like my own, then you're gonna not meet demand and you have to increase prices massively to make up for that loss. That said, I have my own chickens that we personally slaughter and eat whenever we choose to. Big plump ones that are well fed. Yeah they die. I think that's what happens when most of our food becomes our food. Plants included. They don't have feelings but they don't do anything anymore other than become food and nutrients for us. I'm sure you wouldn't want to be a part of a massive world issue where the food you consume is causing massive pressure in infrastructures such as water supplies for 1st and even 3rd world countries right? I mean you love Almond milk or even Oatmilk I presume? Yeah it takes more water and resources to produce a single cup of almond milk than it does to produce a few gallons of dairy cow milk. It costs virtually nothing compared to both cows and almonds to produce eggs from a chicken and then use that chicken to feast on later on. It's call efficiency of resources and a lot of these vegan alternatives cost a lot more to even produce than you think and normally don't even provide half as much product for double the price and resources (double being conservative for sake of argument) I kill my food. I know where it comes from and it provides a lot more than trying to find a new way to make an enviornmentally unfriendly product grow to be only 1/10th of what I could produce much cheaper and much faster. In the end you produce more demand for harmful products and even labor from where these plants and products come from. Food for thought.
Honestly, with authentic chicken among the options everyone would have guessed unless everything was cooked a lot. The orientation and consistency of the fibres of chicken are still not fully reproduced by the alternatives, while the flavour profile is not so different.
You could misunderstand a chicken burger, not a chicken nugget.
How do you expect the result may have changed (if at all) had you included one bucket of actual chicken nuggets?
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For my own entertainment at my being weird, I decided to wave. And it was exactly at the same time. LMSBO! 🤣
I'm a bit curious about Meati, but slightly wary as I'm wondering how close it is to Quorn (which is the only product, veggie or not, that has ever given me a splitting migraine I think because it's somehow distantly related to amoxacillin). I adore the Gardein products though. Whenever I'm getting those fast food type cravings, I'll go and grab a bag of that from the store, and it knocks them right out.
Update: I emailed Meati and they confirmed that the ingredients for their products and the strain of mycelium they use is different from Quorn
Quorn is fungus related, so if you have a mold allergy I would highly recommend you stay away from Quorn.
Which is sad....because I've had the Quorn Meatless Patties and Meatless cutlets and I'll be damned if they weren't the closest I've ever gotten to real chicken. Slap them on a bun with some mayo and pickle slices and I could NOT tell the difference.
Good to know since I'm allergic to amoxacillin. :(
hm im horribly allergic to amoxicillin and i had no idea! i love quorn, their vegan turkey is probably the best vegan product ive ever had.
@@barphh I could very well be wrong! I just know I got the same horrible splitting migraine after eating Quorn that I did with amoxicillin, and one site on the interwebz mentioned something related. Either way, no Quorn for me 😅
@@barphh Didn't know there was a meatless turkey product, it's not on our stores over here. Just meatless chicken and Beef.
The beef is not so great, but the chicken products are hands down the closest thing to chicken that I've had.
yeah. perfecting the new presentation style. great recipe of course as well. your radio voice is really shining! such a superior fluidity.
Thank you so much!
You said that KFC uses buttermilk and egg for breading the chicken. I worked for KFC for two years as a chef and we never did that... just chicken and secret recipe flour.
Or is this all dehydrated into the flour itself?
Btw, props on the amazing audio on this video. Too many channels focus on the video and forget completely about the audio aspect.
Absolutely realistic! Really looks like a real chicken breast
It really does!! Its so wild to me
Been waiting for this for days! So excited to see how you came up with this. I feel like chicken is the funkiest faux meat. Always smells weird, looks weird, or has a funky texture. This look amazing!
Thank you!!! So stoked!
Holy crap -- you took the breading off?!?!? I've always been impressed by your dedication and thoroughness, but I think you've bested yourself here (along with your fantastic helping hands). I was tired after watching all this. You and your crew did so much work! Really enjoyed the results -- and I'd love it if you could post the final results (please).
I think this would also be fun with something else, like cheese.
Side note -- how are you not at 1M yet?! You deserve so much more love. You're seriously so talented, real & fun. And I love how Monica's in every vid. She's the Stan Lee of your videos :P
The 'Honey' mustard recipe I use is 2tbsp vegan mayo, 1tbsp Dijon mustard, 2tsp molasses (or brown sugar, 1tsp soy sauce.
Ohhhh thats interesting!!! I need to try that!!
I hate to say the Raised and Rooted was amazing, like mcd, when they added egg whites. I didn't realize it had eggs until mid bag. After buying the actual vegan ones they just weren't as good. The breading is off. Surely there's a sub for egg whites for that 🤔 I'm glad they took the eggs out but it needed a replacement!
Anyhow, I haven't bought them since.
I'm also very interested about the mycelium one : I hope it's the best one 👌
It's good that you tell people there's vegan chicken on the table (I assume your friends would know nonetheless) as, some people can have strange and unique allergies...
I've read some threads on reddit about things going sour because people were *literally* tricked into eating a vegan meat and they couldn't handle one of the ingredients (I think it was the seitan) which ended up for them at the hospital.
Yes, almost no chance or slim to none it happens but, it's always better to know it's a thing
oh gosh - what if the person was celiac and had seitan, which is basically just gluten? I'm all for introducing vegan options to people but just not down with tricking people.
Yah exactly and yet its extremely rare to be allergic to chicken because its literally an unprocessed natural food. Seitan which is gluten is extremely allergenic to most people regardless if you have celiac or not. These processed vegan foods are extremely toxic and the fact there is such enthusiasm to eating such trash is just insane. If you crave chicken EAT CHICKEN. If it's for moral reasons more animals die from plant harvesters look it up.
@@electron-Volt I had a friend who got horribly sick from impossible burgers because he was tricked into it. He literally has multiple autoimmune issues and only eats beef without seasoning because it's so bad for him. Vegans need to stop tricking people because you dont know who you are hurting.
@@electron-Volt, nobody with celiac disease should participate in a test like this, especially because the breading was wheat flour based.
Now I’m craving some impossible chick’n. That looked like a lot of work!
Ton of work hahah but worth it! This was fun
First
HECK YEAH!!
I truly appreciate all of your effort into making fake meats, but as vegans, we are not as obsessed with substitute meats as we are a complete nutrition. I would love to see recipes that don’t focus so much on substitute meats.
Thank you so much! Really my whole channel is about finding the best, most realistic plant based substitutes. I don’t focus on nutrition because I’m not a nutrition expert and I feel things like that should be left to experts.
I’m also not focused on a fully vegan audience as I want to provide plant based substitutes for everyone.
Hope that helps understand the channel a little more and what you’ll be seeing from me.
Thank you for your thoughtful reply. You are absolutely correct about not being a nutritionist, nor by any means am I.
I love watching your channel, just I guess not as passionate about “fake steak” as you have proven you are and work really hard trying to perfect it which I admire.
When I used to live in Taiwan, I used to buy fresh made vegan meat products at fresh market every morning or afternoon with a very reasonable price, now I move to Malaysia, vegan products, including tempeh and tofu is not that cheap and mostly are not real ingredients, and to buy many of those vegan ready meat is ridiculously expensive and none actually taste that good, always too dry.
What you did with the new breading really help to make it better, it is a hard work but it's worth it.
I'm now making my own vegan meat too, thanks to many of your video, I learned so much how to make it tasty.
Honey cultivation doesn't harm bees, I don't get the fuss over honey. (beekeeping has other environmental concerns, but that's a whole other topic)
Agave isn't very sustainable. I wish folks would just use honey, or something like date syrup (my personal preference) I don't know how much more sustainable it is so maybe try something else.
Great video, but I need to see the RANKINGS! Okay, so Impossible won, but where did Beyond stack up? Lightlife? Would've loved to get a more detailed breakdown of how people perceived ALL the brands. Here in Canada we have access to some of these, but not all, so it would've been great to see how they all compared.
Its at the end of the video!!
Did you watch the video?
@@SauceStache the percent was a bit confusing. Rate from 1-5 would of been clearer.
This was a really fun video and you put alot of work into it.
Yeah this new format is good. Like a vegan Babish. All you need now are some tats 👀
Hahaha I need to figure out which tats! Babish has a fork right? Maybe I can get a Tofu press haha 😂
Great video and title choice! :) very thoughtful and well done :)
Thank you very much!
That's just absolutely unreal. I love what Meati is doing these days. Their steak looks awesome too! Vegan food science is pure magic these days!
Its so so wild
Loved the work you did by getting a video from a doorbell of a "fryer man" arriving hehe, thank you for making this without harming animals
Bwhahaha I used all my elements for this video haha
the ultimate gardein is my personal favorite mostly because of the breading, those nuggies airfried and tossed in buffalo sauce is my go-to lazy meal
Thank you for not tricking people into eating something. As someone with food allergies, it really bothers me when people do that. ❤️
I loved the guy that said he had a zero chance of knowing. 🤣
Haven't tried the Jack and Annie's nuggets, but their hot dogs are pretty good! Of all the rest, I like the incogmeato and the gardein ultimate best
Chicken nugs are bad example of fake chicken because they are barerly chicken themself. You should go for goujons or tenders.
You are so underrated. I'm vegan 6 years now and I just love how you prove how awesome and innovative it is and can be. Thank you! I can't wait til you reach a million, you deserve it.
That was really fun to watch
I like the gardein more than the impossible. The impossible seems too soft to me. I like the Dino vegan nuggets more than impossible too. They have more chew. The impossible are great tho. Better deep fried than air fried
I personally am not vegan, but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy trying a couple of the things you make, and impossible nuggets are super good, and the impossible whopper from BK, was good enough for me to trick my family, they thought BK just had new spices or something. Now I do love mushrooms so I think I'll try that mushroom chicken thing and see how it is, here's hoping it's not ridiculouslu expensive lol. Love your videos, keep up the good work
imagine if they added poision that boils off to replicate the effect of eating raw chickens
Maple Mustard is better than honey mustard. 2 ingredients, ratio to taste. I always keep some ready in the fridge
Look here buddy, you need to cross the threshold and start selling your products to the public....
I'll get there.. I need to take a breather and get off the RUclips treadmill for a while
@@SauceStache Yeah you have to live life while you still can, I just want to see a giant saucestache mustache on a bag of frozen Chick-un nuggets....
@@SauceStache maybebdo a gofundme or kickstarter to get it going?
With all due respect, it’s not exactly your mastery of fake chicken, but rather the tasteless, textureless, mass-produced chicken of this day and age that makes tricking them quite easy 😬
if there was real chicken, everyone would know which one it is.
Maybe they would, maybe they wouldn't. It might be a little more tough/chewy.
A lot of those nuggets suck in my opinion, the absolute best was the grilled nuggets from Whole Foods, haven’t seen them in a long time
Damn you built up subscribers. Been watching but hadn't noticed the sub count for a long time now, congrats.
Isnt just straight up harder to distinct vegan chicken from normal chicken if you don't have any normal chicken reference? This feels like cheating
I'm curious if you'd consider tackling something like making chicken breast-- I haven't had any success with seitan and the jackfruit recipe doesn't seem to work as well without the skin, but I'd love to be able to have chicken breast for something like cordon bleu, chicken parm, or hardy stew chunks, stuff of that nature. I love nuggies and I eat a lot of gardein and asian faux meat products, but this nut hasn't been cracked yet to me... same for chops (pork, lamp, steak), or any kind of meat that isn't processed. How do you replicate marrow and grease around a bone? How do you get that texture? Can it be done? I see so many pics on the seitan Facebook but I've never had any luck replicating...
Also, love Annie's. Their sausage is SO good.
Have you tried Kim Weston's Butter-Starch WTF seitan method? It works really well for unprocessed meats apparently! Chef TJ is also incredible - he has a RUclips channel under the same name. He's done bone marrow, steak, whole chickens, etc. Kim Weston also replicates the sticky texture between skin and bone in fish using an agar agar solution on his RUclips channel!
Ahh!!! You and JP!!! Amazing!!
What a fun video! I would love to see a review on the mushroom mycelium one - sounds very interesting!
Your videos are a great anti-depressant! :) you make my brain and my week so much happier! :)
Wow thank you so much!!! Thank you
I really like when you and Monica taste test. I feel like you two give good insights even when you don't agree, which is so true with all food and drink. I was hoping you two had a separate review of the offerings. 🙏
Love the idea of this vid, love JP and ya'll but, I think you should leave the original breading on. Scientists, such as yourself, probably toiled over what breading ingredients would help both the taste as well as encapsulate the texture. I'm probably overthinking it but ... great video again!
I like these videos, I'm not a vegan but it's great to watch iterative progression with consistently better results and with how well the fake chicken turned out it's pushed me ever closer to killing and cooking all of my meats excluding the venison I already harvest each year.
Awe look at Lorena! Wish she was vegan 💚
Wow! It really does look like the real thing! Bravo
really enjoyed this video
honestly vegans should eat honey. i mean it is better for the planet and we do like bees . atleast if you eat locally produced honey its better for the climate than imported agave.
Yeah make sue the honey is sustainable . Honeybees are INVASIVE species .
“None of them were real”
Guy: I KNEW IT!
2 seconds later: “None of them really knew it”
'kfc obviously' *shrug* made me lol
Like thanks dude hahaha but it was pretty obvious haha
Gotta try marinating that mushroom chicken in the chickun broth seasoning
At first i was scared cause i thought you didnt disclose there was vegan chicken also….. this is very clever and a very fair competition bravo
hey mark, i'd love to see if you could make a video on vegan gummies? i know agar agar is the most commonly used ingredient, however i've heard they don't have the same chewy texture that gelatin provides, which is really important in my opinion
This was inasane. In a very good way, obviously. Thank you for your hard work, Mark. ;-)
One thing to keep in mind. Allergens. I'm guessing for these people you knew their allergies. I don't care what food is called. I will pretty much eat anything.
As long as it's not one of my allergies. Yellow peas are one, soy is another. I make a black bean burgers, they don't look like meat, I don't care if they do, I just care how it tastes or if it's going to make me ill. I love other alternatives like cauliflower, jackfruit and chickpeas. So it's not necessarily about attitude or perspectives. But what someone CAN or CAN'T eat.
wait so you didn't want to fool people into eating Vegan chicken, so you told them that they were doing a taste test between real chicken and vegan chicken, but there is no real chicken...
me think you lost the point along the way, maybe it got eaten with one of the vegan chicken bits!
Also what's the point of being vegan if you still crave meat, just be responsible get a chicken and learn not to waste the carcass. I feel this is hypocritical, on a scale from 1-10 it's a 20!
Side note if you're eating Fried chicken( btw way too much oil) then isn't that counter productive to being vegan!
I tried vegan and what I've tried was good but going down is good but coming out is HELL LOL
Try the Daring chicken. I'm a chef, and with most vegan or vegetarian subs, the texture is off putting to me, along with the myriad of ingredients. The Daring chicken is made with 5 basic ingredients and it has a shredable texture that mimics chicken. It' s one vegan sub that I will eat.
You're not a chef, you're a magician.
Wow! thank you hahaha
You have to try the Quorn Chick'n nuggets. They are the best in my opinion. So good!!
Now the real challenge... Keto vegan chicken
For vegan honey mustard, I'm not a big fan of agave so I usually just make a simple one with vegenaise, spicy mustard and maple syrup and that's super good. I guess that makes it more of a maple mustard 😂 I've also made it with dijon mustard which is awesome too
I add a dash of orange blossom water to mimic the floral notes in honey , that or a jelly based from apples works too
agree and agave is not very sustainable
i had vegan chicken at a place and i was screaming crying in my brain from how delicious it was with vegan greek alaloi or however its spelt
You know, could you do some sauce videos? I mean, I know you just did, but it really makes the difference for my family. I just did a stirfry with peanut sauce, and even though they knew I made fake chicken, they really enjoyed it, esp as leftovers (which doesn't always happen with my seitan). Thank you for all your videos👍👍👍
I'm going to start trying to add more sauces and side recipes to every video!!
@@SauceStache Super cool; thanks! I'm realizing this is part of the magic👍👍👍😋
if you got the beyond chicken from kfc - that would've been a party! It's not really realistic and you were crunched for time, but still
Try the DARING brand. They are awesome 👏
I keep forgetting Mayo natrual has eggs in it.
Vegan chicken is easy………..But vegan lamb you’ve got no chance😎
I live in Tel Aviv- concidered to be one of the most vegan friendly cities in the world. And we don't have even a third of the brands you showed... ( but on the other hand, you can get vegan food literly everywhere in Israel)
The only thing that bothers me about fake meat is that the stuff I can get is always pre-seasoned with all the wrong spices, and it turns out tasting horrible. Even if it was real meat I still wouldn't eat it because of its seasonings.
Very cool style of social video :) I bet that took a lot of film and editing work! Amazing!
That's like having a multiple choice question in an exam where there all wrong and u have to not answer to be correct most people would just answer the closest thing to the right answer which is your vegan chicken which may or may not taste like chicken
When I saw Monica grab all of them I was like 👁 👄 👁
How are any of your friends still falling for this
Exactly how you would... maybe you haven't had any of the good brands of vegan chicken yet, but they are almost identical in taste and texture now.
Hpw are you Peen JP?^^ I love this guyXD his enthusiasm perfectly on point as allways^^
I wish I had that many friends, lol. Maybe giving away free chicken is the key…
Hopefully this guy has been charged for poisoning these people
Thought there’d be something about how that new mushroom chicken tasted. And man I would never go to the lengths you did to remove all the breading and redredge and fry everything 😮💨
I don’t see a problem with feeding meat eaters vegan chicken without their knowledge. Just saving them from salmonella. Also, what’s the big deal, it’s vegetables, grains, or fruit. As long they’re not allergic. And do they know what they’d be putting in their bodies eating REAL chicken nuggets? 🤮 Jamie Oliver eats meat and showed how gross chicken nuggets are a long time ago.
Considering that you know their allergies*
that's cruel there was no real chicken.. not cool man. not cool
If he wipes then his hands has extra flavor.
What a fun video! I was smiling the whole time. I needed that during finals. Thanks 😊 I will forever love the gardein chickn strips
ahhhh thank you!!! Thank you
Yeeees Hellmann's vegan mayo the best around. Love making a creamy maple dijon mustard for nuggets.
Its soooo good!
So let's just say that this was an epic endeavor that is better than anything any test kitchen ever did. The idea of throwing a party to do it made it really authentic and the trouble you went through to pull it off was outstanding. Your backyard is beautiful. You and Monica are adorable and she was really dressed cute for the party. It's crazy that you don't have over a million subs yet. I'm sure it's bound to come soon since your channel is so professional yet not pretentious in the least. ☮️❤️