quorn - a review

Ok, I'm no vegetarian. I like my beef, chicken and pork. But last night I was making a baked ziti and was planning on putting in ground turkey breast.
The store was out of ground turkey, so I pondered lean ground beef.

Now, I'm honestly not concerned about getting Mad Cow disease, but since the scare, I found out the reason why burger has a higher risk than things like steak - since the part of the cow that is high risk is nerves, spinal cord and brain, and since burger *can* contain some of this material, it is higher risk. Just the thought of eating spinal cord and brain made me not want to touch burger, mad cow or not.

So I went in search of another protein source, and came upon Quorn - it's textured soy, much like burger. I used it in my recipe, along with the low carb pasta, and it turned out fantastic. I absolutely couldn't tell that it wasn't burger.

Does anyone else use quorn?

Could happen - I have friends in Germantown! We used to live in
Columbia.

I'm in the US. According to Hoover's it's only be available here since
2002. I've looked for it in a couple stores but haven't seen it yet.

Well, I'm serious, if you're ever down this way!

No but go easy on me. I didn't use tofu until last year and how long has that been around? Maybe someday.

If you're ever in the DC area, let me know .

I haven't seen it in any markets around here. Like all new products it comes with mixed reviews.
http://www.quorn.com/
http://www.cspinet.org/quorn/ http://www.hoovers.com/free/co/factsheet.xhtml? COID=106359

Chris Braun wrote

Thanks - I promise I will! It would be fun.

"determined" wrote

Just an observation - Since you're not worried about mad cow disease, I find myself amused that you don't want burger because it *possibly* has spinal cord and brain yet fungus doesn't deter you. I don't really have an ick factor over any food. I'll try anything once as long as I know it's been prepared properly. I'm still looking for someone to take me for good sushi.

I use Quorn a lot in my WOE - like you say, high protein, low fat and as long as you cook it *in* something like chilli it's fantastic - takes on the taste of whatever you put it in.

I don't eat mushrooms at all - except for Quorn - I simply don't like the texture or taste - but I've used Quorn in many menus and not even hardened carnivores have been able to tell the difference.

In the UK there are lots of Quorn products, slices, sausages, burgers etc but I tend to stick to the minced stuff - it's less processed and has fewer things added.

if its hidden away somewhere like a burger and you cant tell its quorn then good for you .... but other than that ..... eeewwwwww is all i have to say on the subject

apart from maybe ... quorn ... yak!

Yeah, that's what I got. and I had no idea that it was a fungus! WOW!
That's what you get from not reading the label. Not that it bothers me that it's a fungus, just feel really ignorant right now for making an assumption.
Anyways, I loved it... High in fiber and protein, low in calories, good taste - it's not often I find something that is good for me AND tastes good!