Engineered Chicken Meat Substitute

Basics

• This page aims to go over the Existing Options for an Engineered Animal Product Substitute for Chicken Meat / Related Foodstuffs

Chicken Nuggets

• Easy in that since they are ALREADY “Mystery Meat” with no large Macrostructure and disguised in breading etc they are an easy thing to replicate

Brands

Impossible Meat

• Impossible Meat
  • User: Eric here,
    • Tried their Regular (at least compared to the Gardenia they are better
    • Honestly good. Would need to do a side by side with the “real” thing, but honestly no complaints
      • Unlike the Impossible Burger (at Burger King), the leanness of Chicken may make the lack of small pockets of fat etc a non-issue
        • Although these were in no way “dry”

Gardenia

• User: Eric here,
  • The fake chicken was similarly fine, the breading wasn’t there, at least for me
    • It seemed a bit more akin to Panko Bread Crumbs / Fancier “Italian Bread Crumbs” which was a bit too fancy/not quite right for chicken nuggets
    • Not bad though
  • No defined macrostructure, but again to be expected for chicken nuggets

Chicken Tenders

Gardenia

• User: Eric here again
  • A BIT of defined macrostructure akin to the Muscle fibers in actual animal chicken
  • Not as tough/persistent, but honestly isn’t that big of a loss (in terms of “fighting with it” such as Tendon/Bone filled bits etc, or undercooked food)
  • Breading is the same “not quite there”, but for something you may eat plain such as Fried Chicken Tenders etc it honestly works
  • Could probably make a decent Chicken Parmesean kind of deal with these + some good pasta…