[Closed] Quorn Bacon Emergency!

This is brilliant.

https://this.co/products/rashers/

It's in Tesco and Sainsburys around here.

What brant said, it’s pretty good if in a hurry/don’t like cooking. Far and away better than any Quorn or similar rashers. Totally different.

Thread here:

https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/this-isnt-bacon/

But IMO still not a patch on roasted (king are best) oyster mushroom rashers. Even well-fried ones are good. With a marinade (oil, garlic powder, soy or liquid aminos, salt, maple syrup and smoked paprika.)

Marinade slices overnight. Roast on greaseproof paper til chewy/crispy.

Utterly delicious. I’ll look for the thread when I have time. I’m sure you could use any mushroom of you get it to slice, but oyster mushrooms are prized for their umami flavour

Now you’ve got me started. Have a punnet of oyster mushrooms was going to use in a pasta but think we’ll do them tonight as smoky rashers and pile on top of a juicy burger

cheatburger recipe

What would you use as a pancetta substitute in cooking? I often end up cooking separate veg/non veg meals, but that would help with flavours.

Early learning centre?

^ Oh god it’s like groundhog (!) day

What would you use as a pancetta substitute in cooking?

Not sure what pancetta tastes like. Have a look at the colcannon recipe down the page in the this isnt bacon link? If pancetta isn’t smokey then I’d go with well-cooked oyster mushroom slices. seasoned with some liquid aminos (or soy sauce, or tamari etc), garlic powder, a little something sweet and salt. Add to pasta once prepared.

Simple answer is just the roasted mushrooms with a little oil and salt. Purified (good quality stuff) coconut oil is a very good ‘added fat’ to meat substitutes.

Pancetta is salty smoky bacon, usually cut into small cubes and crisped.

Pancetta is salty smoky bacon

Then deffo the This Isn’t Bacon rashers scissored into chunks. It’s delicious in that colcannon. Cubed roasted oyster mushrooms would also be perfect. Just marinade first as mentioned upthread. Make sure to cook until leathery.

Is this due to rasherning?

Might try that one in a salad.
And has anyone seen DRAC'S coat

Question - Do they flavour pretend bacon to make it taste like real bacon ?, or is it veggie flavoured

Question – Do they flavour pretend bacon to make it taste like real bacon ?, or is it veggie flavoured

Do they flavour real bacon to make it taste like maple lactone, furans from the Maillard Reaction, and salt? Or is it flesh-flavoured?

Serious answer - it depends on the product/ingredients. I find that king oyster mushrooms + a smokey, salty, umami marinade taste much more like smokey, salty pork meat than any of the processed strips I’ve tried. I know Impossible Foods are working on it.

Question – Do they flavour pretend bacon to make it taste like real bacon ?, or is it veggie flavoured

I've never had facon but I'd imagine the former. Frazzles aren't crisp flavoured.

This is why veggie hot dogs work so well. The taste comes from flavourings, there's probably about the same amount of meat content in both.

Isn’t Bacon really doesn’t work for us taste wise, although the cooking smell is fantastic. (Isn’t Chicken on the other hand is brilliant… we have one variant of it most weeks). Mo’ shrooms is the answer to escaping the bacon addiction.

Oh… Sainsbury’s deliver the frozen quorn rashers. They are frozen… so get a load delivered and stock up for winter. A big drive on the off chance of getting one item “off the shelf” is bonkers. Be sure to tick ‘no substitutes’ though.

Thanks all. I have a Sainsburys local so will try the 'isn't bacon' if they have some. Tescos is 10 miles away. We are going on a 40 mile round journey tomorrow so plan to pop into any supermarkets on the way and stock up if poss, otherwise we're looking into bulk buying some!

We tried Sainburys delivery and Tescos and both came up with no stock for any that will deliver to us ... bizarre, it seems to have disappeared in our area - East Sussex.

I was working with a chemistry teacher recently who worked in industry before becoming a teacher and most of the flavourings and tastes in our food and drinks comes from mixing the right chemicals so shouldn't be a problem recreating most tastes. I had some shredded fake duck today that was rather good!

Cooked those king oyster rashers* tonight to top-off some vegan cheatburgers.

*Waitrose had a sale on one of their ‘mixed woodland (?) mushrooms’ and there were 8-10 king oyster slices in the punnet.

Marinaded them for a couple of hours in a ziplock bag. Then splapped them out onto parchment sheet on oven tray, drizzletossed in olive oil, spread around all flat then roasted on med/high until cooked, turning once.

Not discustahn. Delicious. Not at all like those Supermarket Brand play-dough-looking things in a plastic cave. Amazahn.

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Now I have to figure out tmrw if I use them in an MLT or egg and rasher buttie....

Will I add fried mushrooms?

They look gert lush ^^^

(PS easy to wash and resuse the ziplock bag as long as you don’t put oil in it)

Now just need to find out how to grow oyster mushrooms in our damp cellar. Should be easy?

(Isn’t Chicken on the other hand is brilliant… we have one variant of it most weeks)

This is where taste becomes intensely subjective. We tried the This Isn’t Chicken stuff and both thought it tasted like a weird gas! I wondered if it had gone off, it was so rank. Maybe it had! Didn’t risk it since.

Chicken Of The Woods is my plan..but where to find it...

OP, there’s a big thread here if you missed it:

https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/vegetarianism-for-a-meat-lover/