Meat 2.0: a steak from the printer
Meat is delicious, but not exactly good for the environment. It is responsible for a quarter of CO2 emissions, and beef in particular is the culprit. One kilo of Dutch steak accounts for 24 kilos of greenhouse gases, while one kilo of chickpeas accounts for just 2.4 kilos. So we need to start eating more plant-based food – but an occasional delicious, juicy steak is really tasty! Maybe this meat is the solution?
If you’re looking for meat substitutes, it’s not easy to find a somewhat tasty steak . Hamburgers, okay, those are manageable, and you can even get meatballs vegetarian. And have you tried these sausage rolls with an insect filling? Animal proteins after all, but no CO2 problems. And every seasoned vegetarian can tell you that mushrooms, aubergine and pulled jackfruit also come pretty close to delicious meat. But a steak? No.
From the printer
The Israeli company Redefine Meat is taking plant-based ‘meat’ to a higher level. They have developed a technique for 3D-printing food, and in the laboratory one bullet steak after another rolls out of the printer. The three inventors of this meat know each other from their work with HP printers. With the ultra-modern printers, they can build the fake meat from layers of fake muscle, fake fat and fake blood. This allows a T-bone or an entrecote to be reconstructed fibre by fibre, until it is indistinguishable from the real thing.
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- Vlees uit een lab
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- En het is niet van echt vlees te onderscheiden!
Masterpiece
The young entrepreneurs are working on recreating all types of meat in this way, but the lifelike steak is their masterpiece. The meat is not yet available in the Netherlands.
Image: Redefine Meat
