Science of Cooking @mander.xyz fossilesque @mander.xyz 6 mo. ago

You've heard of lab grown meat, are you ready for rice-grown beef?

www.scimex.org You've heard of lab grown meat, are you ready for rice-grown beef?

You've heard of lab grown meat, are you ready for rice-grown beef? International researchers have developed a beef-rice hybrid they say could be a protein-rich food of the future. The team says they took muscle and fat stem cells from cows, and transplanted them into grains of rice - because

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Well I for one am looking forward to teriyaki beefrice krispies.
This is basically that slop they eat in The Matrix. Mmm, tasty wheat / meat.
- How will I know how to enjoy my food if there's no death involved?
- How do machine know how the beef tastes like?
  
  With that username*, I'd be extra careful. What if AI confuses you with real cattle?
  
  *Andrej likely knows it, but for the others: быдло/bydlo = cattle.
Is shelf stability impacted? I guess when it's dry it's like a rice jerky.
Yeah
[pedantic] its still lab-grown rice-grown beef.

the whole "put the concoction in a petri dish at the right temp and hope the matrix grows" thing.
Cool.
Thanks, I hate it so much!
I've read this kind of hoping for a gyudon that prepares itself, it would be damn great.

Sadly their idea is a bit more on the eeew side. It could open the lid for tastier developments though.

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