To think Quorn tastes nothing like the meat it claims to be

[WendyBloomers]

Okay so trying to be a bit healthier so I made Spag Bol tonight with quorn mince..

It literally tastes nothing like mince beef at all! I wasn't expecting it to be like for like, obviously but jeeesus it was rank. Unless of course it's just my cooking..

How did you cook it?

It's nothing like it.

It very efficiently cleans out my bowels though, it's like colonic irrigation.

I haven't eaten it, but my DC's think the sausages taste the same as pork sausages.

I cooked it on the hob like it suggests on the packet..I had the sausages too the other day and they weren't quite as bad but still if someone blind fed me one the last thing I'd probably say it was was a sausage!

If I'm making something like spag bol I add marmite and gravy granules, gives it a meatier taste.

Someone served me quorn chicken once and I thought it was real chicken. They had to show me the box I hadn't eaten meat in many years though; you do forget what meat tastes like.

I don't think it claims to taste like beef does it? It's just quorn mince - mince made of quorn. I don't like it, I prefer the dried soya mince you get in Holland & Barrett. The quorn chunks are vaguely chicken-esque and we use those sometimes.

Good, I eat it because it doesn't taste like meat

I like it because it doesn't taste like meat too! Don't like the mince though. The texture is gross.

I bought some soya meat from H&B but it had a weird sweet flavour.
Quorn is a carrier for flavour, like tofu.

I like the Quorn Roast because it's quite salty, but doesn't resemble chicken.

Yes, the mince can be a bit mushy.

It tastes absolutely nothing like meat. Sorry. I was veggie for well over a decade & never really liked the stuff. Pulses & rice are, IMHO, a far more palatable protein source.

I batch cook and use half and half.

I always fry in butter with onion and garlic then add tinned tomatoes. I think it tastes just fine like that. It needs a lot less cooking time than meat too.

The mince doesn't taste of anything much, you have to add flavour yourself.

I can't get on with quorn. If you want to make a healthier version, then use half and half beef mince and red lentils.

I first got the idea from a blogpost from a vegan MN blogger and my meat eating DH has never noticed that I do half and half.

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Its not supposed to taste like beef, its supposed to taste like quorn.
Minced is what has been done to it.
The sausages aren't supposed to taste like pork neither.
It's not supposed to is it?
I always thought that quorn was its own taste not that it is supposed to resemble lots of different types of meat.

Another who adds marmite.

I've been vegetarian for 23 years so don't remember what meat tastes like. To be quorn tastes of quorn.

The cauldron sausages are nice btw!

Half and half sounds a good idea, maybe I'll try that next time. Wish is known about adding the marmite too, I love marmite!

As I've always been a meat eater I've never ventured into quorn products before, I just assumed it was supposed to taste like meat. I saw southern fried chicken burgers, minted lamb burgers and whatnot so assumed this is what they were trying to taste like?

I like quorn. I do eat meat but sometimes I don't fancy it, meat can be very heavy in the stomach, quorn works when I want a 'meaty' recipe like spag bol in that situation. It doesn't taste just like meat / chicken, but it can taste good. It usually needs other flavourings e.g in spag bol I'd add a bit of marmite, soy sauce, or half a stock cube, and some tomato puree (as well as the usual onion, garlic etc).
Quorn sausages are pretty nice. Not all vegetarian sausages are though; I had some the other day that were rank.
I do eat pulses, nuts etc, but quorn has a useful place in my ingredient list too.

I suppose I'm just talking about the quorn mince or chunks, I haven't tried the 'lamb' burgers etc.

Only people with no tastebuds could ever confuse the two, but i've heard it said a lot.

The taste and texture of meat and quorn is completely different.

Isn't quorn the food source that can make you very ill and banned in some states of America. (Question nothing else). Or is it something else. Mn please correct me

yes LONDONRACH www.telegraph.co.uk/health/dietandfitness/3318997/Whats-the-truth-about...-Quorn.html

Luckily I'm not allergic to it but know people who are.