Minnesota's Alt-Meat Revolution | Burger Taste Test: Beef or Plant?
Preview: Season 8 Episode 6 | 1m 14sVideo has Closed Captions
Taste Test Challenge: Can you tell the difference between a beef burger and a plant-based burger?
At The Rusty Duck Bar & Grill in Dawson, MN - the home of PURIS which processes yellow pea protein, they cater to hamburger lovers of both the meat and veggie kind. Co-owner Tom Beals and Mayor Randy Tensen are put to the test by host Amanda Anderson to see if these plant-based rookies can tell the difference between the two.
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Minnesota's Alt-Meat Revolution | Burger Taste Test: Beef or Plant?
Preview: Season 8 Episode 6 | 1m 14sVideo has Closed Captions
At The Rusty Duck Bar & Grill in Dawson, MN - the home of PURIS which processes yellow pea protein, they cater to hamburger lovers of both the meat and veggie kind. Co-owner Tom Beals and Mayor Randy Tensen are put to the test by host Amanda Anderson to see if these plant-based rookies can tell the difference between the two.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(country music) - [Interviewer] But despite putting a veggie burger on the menu, Tom hasn't tried one.
He agreed to a taste test, along with Dawson's mayor, Randy Tensen.
Will they be able to tell the difference?
I wonder.
- Put both burgers on the char boiler, cooked them both exactly the same.
And I put different colored picks in them to be able to tell the difference between the two.
- I can, I'm pretty sure which one is which.
- Interesting.
That's a facial expression we have.
- That's very good tasting burger.
This is beef, this all plant, and this one is really good.
- [Interviewer] What do you think, Tom?
- They're both very good.
I think I would guess what one is the beef and what one is the veggie burger, yep.
- That is the real meat, and that's the plant based.
- So you had it right.
- Yep, yep, that's the plant based and that's the real meat.
- So you both had it.
- Yep, both had it right, yep.
- Yep.
I was expecting it to have a taste that was pretty bland.
- And I even think the texture is quite amazingly similar.
- [Randy] It is.
- It's very, I mean, it-- - So is this the first veggie burger either of you have ever eaten?
- Yep.
- I'm so glad it could be here for this moment.
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