Some time ago I heard that there is a possibility to eat a burger in Warsaw, but an unusual one - Beyond Burger. It looks and tastes like a traditional ground beef burger. Moreover, it’s prepared like a normal burger but there is no meat inside it, even if you feel the taste of meat. Unusual right? I ate it and I was surprised, I really thought I was eating meat.
After that day I’ve started wondering if there are other dishes that can rip your mind. It turned out there are, have a look at the video about two guys who treat cooking as alchemy:
1. Have you ever eaten untypical food? Did you like it?
2. Do you thing that kind of food could be our future?
3. Would you like to learn how to be an alchemist in the kitchen? Do you like to experiment in the kitchen?
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2. It is possible that this kind of food could be our future, but I don’t know if people could adopt to it that easily. Maybe in the cities the transformation to this kind of food could be more smoother.
3. Honestly there are many more interesting things I am already interested in. I wouldn’t find time for another one. Especially one that involve making food. I am quit frankly terrible chef.
2. I would prefer that nothing changes. When it comes to kitchens and cooking, I'm a traditionalist. I like traditional Italian, Polish, also German and Austrian cuisine. I don't like too exotic culinary combinations.
3. As I said before, I'm a traditionalist in the kitchen. I like traditional dishes and don't experiment much in the kitchen, because my experiments usually ended badly - I don't like wasting food.
2. It could be a future somehow, in a way that it would be more popular. But in my opinion it won't replace real meat. People need variety and a meat is also needed in our diet.
3. I don't cook very often so I can't really relate to that. When I cook I like to do something special but it's quite rare. Anyway sometimes I watch videos where someone do miracles with food and it could be really interesting.
On the top of my list would be pizza with red beetroots and bigos pancakes. Both of those were quite an experience. The pizza was very light and refreshing perfect for hot summer. The pancakes were a weird combo but I liked them.
2.
I don't think so, in my opinion, the food that is known for hundreds of years like taco, pizza or sushi will remain popular.
3.
I very rarely cook myself, I would like to learn this skill someday, so after I'll learn the basics I could give food experimentation a shot.
2. I think that there will be more and more substitutes, products that we consume, primarily of animal origin. If they are more common I will not be reluctant to introduce them into my diet.
3. I don't think I would like to develop in this field. I like cooking but devoting little time to it and using simple ingredients.
1. No, I have never eaten untypical food, because I don't quite like to experiment with food and eat unusual things. I prefer food that is normal and popular because it is safe.
2. It's difficult to answer the question whether unusual food will be our future. However, it seems to me that it should not be. In the future, the food will be what we currently have all over the world, i.e. different cuisines of the world.
3. As for popular dishes, yes, I like to experiment in the kitchen with dishes, but without exaggeration. Gently. It's always something new, a new taste and an interesting culinary experience.
Thanks for comments. I would never want to try fired bugs in my life. After reading your comments, I think you like to try new things :)
During my recent trip to Australia I tried grilled crocodile meat served in a salad. It tasted a bit like chicken, it was just a little more stringy. I also managed to eat a pizza called "Coat of arms" with kangaroo meat and emu; both animals are in the Australian Coat of Arms, and I taste a little bit like venison, e.g. deer. Such a pizza can be eaten in the pub of the hotel "The Australian" located in the centre of Sydney. It is a big tourist attraction.
2. Do you thing that kind of food could be our future?
In my opinion, the future could be artificial meat. Simon Powell, Jefferies analyst, predicts that by 2040, artificial meat will reach 9 percent of the global meat market, estimated at $2.7 trillion. Today, synthetic meat accounts for less than 1 percent of the market. I am definitely carnivorous, but every sober-minded person knows what breeding for meat looks like, and this is obviously due to the lack of alternative solutions. However, if there is such an alternative and someone thinks that "the real one is only from a living cow", then for me it is no different from people who think that you can only eat meat from an animal that suffered during slaughter. The only thing that worries me is that 100% of the meat will be tasteless, but I'm sure we can do something about it
3. Would you like to learn how to be an alchemist in the kitchen? Do you like to experiment in the kitchen?
I don't like to experiment in the kitchen.
Molecular gastronomy, the most unusual cuisine of today is molecular gastronomy. A kitchen that uses liquid nitrogen and other modern chemistry favors. However, something different is unusual food for everyone. For me, for a long time they were seafood, but pizza too. I eat everything today. Because if someone eats it, it doesn't hurt me. Whether it tastes is another matter.
2. Do you thing that kind of food could be our future?
Philosophically, one may ask:
What new can you come up with in the kitchen? I think everyone has cooked everything.
I believe that we are currently focusing on new curing or pre-processing methods. Yes, molecular gastronomy is a new type of cuisine and will stay with us for a while. That's my opinion.
3. Would you like to learn how to be an alchemist in the kitchen? Do you like to experiment in the kitchen?
It's not alchemy. It's modernity and thinking. So personally, life forced me to learn cooking and since then I have often experimented in the kitchen. I haven't tried alchemy yet.
2. Yes, sure, if it could eliminate meat industry and treating animals like objects, then it certainly is a future. The sense of taste is nothing but reaction to particular chemical substances, so if some exotic, locally unavailable food can be replaced by synthetic equivalents, why shouldn’t we do this, as long as it is healthy?
3. No, absolutely not. I hate spending time in the kitchen. I can’t cook and if I do, it’s because I have no other choice.
1. The most untypical food I've had was definitely an eatable candle made of butter. I tried in an Ukrainian restaurant called "Kanapa". It looked like a normal candle but it was made with butter and we ate it with bread as it kept melting from the flame. It was delicious!
2. This kind of food is certainly very popular in today's cooking world and is often used in modern restaurants with Michelin stars. I think that it will never be our "general basis food" since it's too complicated to create by regular folks but it will certainly keep evolving.
3. Yes, I think that learning that kind of cuisine would be an interesting experience. However, I'd only learn that out of curiosity and I don't think I'd use that kind of cooking on a daily basis.
Hmmm I love to eat any unusual food is tasty for me. Sometimes it is also good to break away
from typical dishes and try something interesting, different. So I like unusual food the most! :)
2. Do you thing that kind of food could be our future?
It is difficult to say whether the food that is presented in the film will be popular and served in every second restaurant.
It seems to me that this is the charm of such "unusual" dishes.
3. Would you like to learn how to be an alchemist in the kitchen? Do you like to experiment in the kitchen?
I would like to become a so-called alchemist in the kitchen and would like to teach me how to use it.
Sometimes when I have time I like to experiment in the kitchen. If something goes well, the experiment tastes better :)
I haven't tried any but I will definitely consider trying it, it looks interesting. let me know where I can have that burger if possible.
2. Do you think that kind of food could be our future?
I don't! Even though I will like to try it I am not considering switching to it. It should just stay an option for when you need it but I will not like it to replace normal food. we never know it might cause more harm.
3. Would you like to learn how to be an alchemist in the kitchen? Do you like to experiment in the kitchen?
It's always a plus to learn new stuff, so yes I would like to learn how to be an alchemist in the kitchen.
I ate, mostly during some weddings and during similar occasions. I also ate a lot of seafood during my Erasmus in Portugal, so I think in comparison to food in Poland is a little bit untypical.
2. Do you thing that kind of food could be our future?
I think that artificial meat could be popular in Poland in the future. You can already see a lot of places offering some alternative to "normal" meat.
3. Would you like to learn how to be an alchemist in the kitchen? Do you like to experiment in the kitchen?
I am not very good at experiments in the kitchen. I try to stick to the standard there.
One time when I was visiting Barcelona, I had an unusal dish, at least for me. It was a beef tartare but served on a baked bone marrow plated inside a real cow bone. You were supposed to scoop the tartare with a bit of the bone marrow which was almost liquid. I have never had bone marrow before that, it was okay but to me it smelled a bit too much like a cow farm. I prefer our traditional beef tartare with pickles and onion, no bone marrow.
2. Do you thing that kind of food could be our future?
I am a fan of meat and traditional dishes so eating watermelon when I expect tuna would probably be a dissapointment for me. However, the principles that the guys in the video talk about are very noble and since the meat shortage is inevitable in the future, we may be forced to resort to the plant-based diet and if it resembles meat and fish, all the better.
3. Would you like to learn how to be an alchemist in the kitchen? Do you like to experiment in the kitchen?
I am not that interested in cooking and experimenting in the kitchen. I only know how to do basic dishes and I cook very rarely so it would be much safer to leave it to the professionals. Probably at some point I will be forced to learn how to cook and stop relying only on take-outs but I guess this will not happen in the nearest future.
I hope this is the future, because I like meat myself, but unfortunately its production is harmful to the environment.
I've always wanted to learn how to cook, and now that I'm forced to sit at home, I try to learn how to cook new food.
Depends on what do you consider "Untypical". I remember my first time in the USA, I was working in the kitchen in the restaurant. Closer to the end of my shift I was making a supper for me, while my friend suddenly appeared staring at my salad. I quote "What in the name of God you are doing? -- A salad. -- Who puts cucumbers in the salad?? O_o ). That day I learned that in USA, at least in the town I was living, salad with cucumbers is considered well exotic food. So if you put it that way -- yes, I have. And I liked it.
2. Do you thing that kind of food could be our future?
Quite possibly. Who knows what the future will hold.
3. Would you like to learn how to be an alchemist in the kitchen? Do you like to experiment in the kitchen?
Since I never cook in the kitchen at home, and eat outside, the answer will be no. Solely to the fact that last time I cooked was years ago.
2 / Yes, I believe that this is one of the trends in modern new cuisine, and it certainly has a place in this culinary culture.
3 / I really like experimenting in the kitchen and cooking a variety of dishes.
It depends on how you view “untypical food” – if it is bread bun filled with redcurrant then yes but if it one of those things that you can find in the Disgusting Food Museum in Malmo, Sweden then unfortunately no. But I recommend googling it, you can find there 100 year-old egg or some grubs ready to eat.
2. Do you thing that kind of food could be our future?
No, I don’t think so, it is more of a interesting short-term experience than the actual future.
3. Would you like to learn how to be an alchemist in the kitchen? Do you like to experiment in the kitchen?
I really like experimenting in the kitchen especially now, during the lockdown and cooking some new courses but I’d rather stay normal humble layman-chef than an actual alchemist.
2. I do think that this kind of food may be our future. For example, eating meat every day isn’t very healthy, we still need this in our diet but not every day and not for every meal per day. Personally, I cut out over half of the meat portions that I used to eat, started to eat more vegies or seeds and now I feel better than two years ago.
3. Honestly, I don’t think that I need that kind of skills. It would be fun but quite unpractical for me on daily basis I like simple dishes which don’t take lots of time in the kitchen but still taste great.
As you mentioned vegetarian but meat flavored burgers I feel obligated to point out that I've tried it! And indeed, as many online reviews states, you can't really tell the difference from meat burger.
2. Do you thing that kind of food could be our future?
I predict future will bring us more or less "food crisis" which will require to us, as society, to optimize resource usage to food produced. It is very likely it will shift humanity to more plant-based diet, even in more developed countries.
3. Would you like to learn how to be an alchemist in the kitchen? Do you like to experiment in the kitchen?
Oh, that's the most undeveloped part of my existence. I barely ever prepare food on my own, I usually eat out or have my meals delivered as part of "box diet". I'm focusing right now on other aspects of my life. I don't mind be kitchen-impaired
2. Probably yes, It would make our diet more diverse.
3. I think it would be fun and might also be helpful. In some recipes it is needed to know exact proportion and how something would behave under the influence of heat or cold. For example you need to know what happens to garlic if you heat it too much, same goes with butter because they can easily destroy you dish and make it taste awful.
I've have tried lots of strange food during my worldwide trips. I really like to try something that is unusual and learn why for people from diffrent countries is something normal.
2. Do you think that such food may be our future?
There are a lot "new kind of food" proposition but if it goes about this particular type - no, I don't think so
3. Would you like to learn how to be an alchemist in the kitchen? Do you like to experiment in the kitchen?
Yes, it's really interesting thing, I alwayes like expirements espcially food experiments
I am not used to eating anything that is not considered "normal" in the sake of western culture. The weirdest thing I ever ate was atlantic wolffish and it was awful. My mom forced me to eat this. Because of her cooking I don't like fish.
2. Do you think that kind of food could be our future?
I think in the future we will develop some kind of taste extracts to use on high valued 3d printed food.
3. Would you like to learn how to be an alchemist in the kitchen? Do you like to experiment in the kitchen?
I am kind of an alchemist in the kitchen myself. I used to think about myself like this when I mix a lot of spices. I love experimenting in the kitchen, however I mostly experiment with dishes I know and spices I've tasted before. That may sound bad if I didn't try a lot of dishes but honestly I really just don't like some cuisine.
Two years ago I was in Spain and I ate there probably the strangest dish - bull testicles. To be honest, they were not good.
2. Do you thing that kind of food could be our future?
In my opinion no, it is difficult to convince people to this type of food. Personally, I like simple food like pizza or kebabs and I know there are many people like me.
3. Would you like to learn how to be an alchemist in the kitchen? Do you like to experiment in the kitchen?
I don't like cooking, I like simple dishes that can be prepared quickly. They are always delicious.
2.I think so. The world is developing, people are looking for new solutions, including how to replace meat to make it look like meat and taste like meat. It's only a matter of time before this is the norm of our lives.
3. Of course. I think it's worth trying everything in life and I like cooking very much so I think it would be a very interesting challenge to take up.