{"id":416,"date":"2009-05-17T20:51:22","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T03:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/?p=416"},"modified":"2009-05-17T20:51:22","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T03:51:22","slug":"yummy-mold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/?p=416","title":{"rendered":"Yummy mold!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Fuzzy<\/a>Yes, I mean “mold” as in “fuzzy fungus”, not as in “something you put JellO® in to harden into a funny shape”. I’m not even talking about “Blue Cheese”, though blue cheese is pretty good too. I’m actually referring to Fusarium venenatum<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n

Okay, the picture linked here is actually F. oxysporum<\/i>, one of several Fusarium<\/i> species that are crop diseases (mmmmm, rotted moldy potatoes…), but I haven’t found a picture of a F. venenatum<\/i> culture yet. Anyway, before going to bed I just wanted to mention that I’ve run into the first genuinely good “meat substitute” that I’ve tasted so far, and it’s made of mold.<\/p>\n

They evidently grow it in vats, dry it into mats, mix it with some egg white to hold it together, and then make meat-like food product out of it. “They” being Astra-Zeneca, who appear to be the owners of the “Quorn®” trademark.<\/p>\n

The chicken-like food product (“Chik’n”) patties they make are actually passable imitations of chicken, and actually taste good. They make a breaded Gruyere-“Chik’n” patty thing that I will probably go out and buy more of, of my own free will – which will be a first for “vegetarian<\/span>” food for me.<\/p>\n

Makes me wonder what I’d get if I subjected another known edible mold like Penicillium roquefortii<\/i> (Mmmmmm…Blue Cheese) to the same process. Would I get blue “meat”?…<\/p>\n

And, no, I’m not actually a paid shill for Astra-Zeneca or Marlowe Foods (who distribute the “Quorn®” products), though as I mentioned a while back to the dairy industry in my “Margarine makes you stupid” post<\/a>, if anyone wants to HIRE me as a paid shill<\/strike> independent advocate, I could sure (yes, still) use a good microscope. Come on, Astra-Zeneca! A fancy biotech company such as yourselves must surely have dozens<\/i> of surplus microscopes laying around!…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, I mean “mold” as in “fuzzy fungus”, not as in “something you put JellO® in to harden into a funny shape”. I’m not even talking about “Blue Cheese”, though blue cheese is pretty good too. I’m actually referring to Fusarium venenatum. Okay, the picture linked here is actually F. oxysporum, one of several Fusarium … Continue reading Yummy mold!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[328,9,22,15,6],"tags":[487,483,567,482,485,86,481,486,484],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eat-it","category-food-science","category-freakish-eukaryotes","category-methods","category-microbiology","tag-cheese","tag-edible","tag-food-science","tag-fungus","tag-fusarium","tag-mold","tag-mycoprotein","tag-penicillium","tag-quorn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions\/418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}