I really like fresh shiitake mushroom bacon. The fresh ones, not dried and rehydrated, have an amazing texture. Use your standard marinade, but make sure you use extra oil in it. Then bake it in oven but dust it with nutritional yeast before the oven. Wins over meat eaters every time I make it.
Sauce Stache go for it. I find the finished product looks nothing like bacon but has the fatty chew, flavor, and crispy edges that I loved when I used to eat pork bacon.
you can't "win over" meat eaters with mushrooms XD we already like mushrooms dude XD usualy a great on-the-side for steaks and such, ur just showing us an awesome way to make mushrooms lol now with that said, I've always heard that Shitake was the bacon of mushrooms.
Here is an idea. Layer your diakon with a strip of dry rice paper. Being rice it might absorb the moisture. Then marinate them both with your bacon sauce and cook together.
The desperation to recreate the beloved bacon is heartbreaking. But the determination to annihilate the sacrifice one makes, is wonderfully human. I love this stuff. :>
Ricepaper "bacon" is better when 2 layers are backed on top of each other. Gives a better texture in my expeariance! And you can have all the ingrediances at home at all times!
Yes. When I first started seeing rice paper bacon pop up on RU-vid about a year or so ago, there was a woman who suggested using 2-3 strips of rice paper together after cutting then putting in water to stick together then marinade then cook. It made for a heartier piece of "bacon."
@@cherylynl.tompkins7049, and Tobias, I tried rice paper, but it turned out to have a raw hard texture, and not crispy. How do I figure out what went wrong?
we just tried the Sweet Earth bacon yesterday and I was pleased with the flavor....for texture, yeah it didn't work for me but once it was between the bread slices it didn't matter. Being able to taste something was really important to me (since 2017 I haven't been able to taste or smell much).
I’ve been hoping you’d do this one! Thank you so much for finally doing this showdown! I just started watching but clicked like and commented ‘cause I know how awesome it will be.
Just became a subscriber because of this not a vegetarian or vegan but you won me over with your charisma and I can tell you know what you're talking about.
It should be ok to rinse the salt off the daikon with water, then pay dry. It shouldn't reabsorb water once salt-purged, assuming it acts like other vegetables.
No Morningstar Farms “breakfast strips?” I haven’t tried any of the others that you have here… But I have been eating the MorningStar Farms version for absolute EONS. It was one of the first made I believe (I have been a vegetarian for 30 years and started buying this as soon as I first saw it in the grocery stores) - it is still so satisfying. I have served it to my boyfriend who is a meat eater and he loved it too.
@@mariejustmarie4095 Yeah I know that was true at the time I wrote that remark, but like I said, I’ve only been vegetarian for 30 years, not vegan. I haven’t watched this video in a long time (my comment is over 2 years old), but from the title of it, it didn’t specify that he was comparing strictly vegan bacon substitutes. Anyways, if you’re a vegan, I have good news for you: MorningStar Farms should be fully vegan by now, so you can now eat their products! ☺️ I knew they announced awhile ago that they were going vegan, so I just looked it up to see if it has happened by now, and it should be so because the year is 2022. Some bits from a 2019 article: _Like every other trendy diet follower, Morningstar Farms can’t wait to tell you that it’s vegan now. The Kellogg-owned company behind Chik Patties and fake bacon strips and Spicy Black Bean Burgers announced plans to makes all of its products 100% plant-based (vegan) by 2021._ _Roughly 50% of its portfolio of products have already made the switch to full vegan, and that should increase to about 65% by the end of 2019 and come 2021 all Morningstar Farms foods will be completely plant-based._ _It’s also good news for chickens and the environment, since switching to fully plant-based offerings will reduce the use of over 300 million eggs whites annually, according to Morningstar._ _“This will help us further our commitment to a greener world by helping to reduce the water waste, land usage, and carbon emissions associated with egg production,” said Mel Cash, Kellogg’s head of global marketing for plant-based protein, in a statement._ _To celebrate the good news, Morningstar is also unveiling a new vegan product: The Cheezeburger, which adds plant-based cheddar “cheeze” to the fake Meat Lover’s quarter-pound patty, giving swole vegans a whopping 23 grams of plant-based protein._
I had an overwhelming need for a bacon butty, so I trotted down to the local Co-op and bought a packet of outdoor reared rashers, they are really good, our local shops have not heard of fake bacon, so I left it. My daughter in California eats Facon and loves it, but she is a real veggie, has been her entire life. I am a weaker soul, but look for humanely produced meat products.I was a vegetarian for 20 years, but gave it up when my veg. partner died, I changed newspaper as well.
I like the Benevolent Bacon but as a finishing touch, I add maple syrup to the pan and it will caramelize and harden a little and it gives the bacon a slightly crisp outside (and yummy maple flavor!)
I love the consept of bacon (extremely greasy and salty, warm stuff you can enjoy with many different foods) but I just cant stand the taste or smell of bacon. Same goes with chicken wings & drumsticks: love the consept of unhealthy food mixed with unhealthy sauce, can't stand the taste nor the idea of eating chicken skin. These vegan alternatives are awesome!
I too have been on a quest to find a good fake bacon. Am looking forward to trying daicon! A note- when I make rice paper bacon, I take a bit of the marinade and mix in a bit of a dark balsamic vinegar, more smoked paprika and black pepper. It will be much darker. Then I paint on marbling using this mixture. It gives the color variation we all find appealing!
I have heard of carrot bacon and now radish bacon... I want to try this myself so badly. Rice paper bacon is surprising and creative! And it actually looks beautiful when it's done XD I'm so happy that vegans/vegetarians can still eat grains. I wish they had more to choose from to be able to eat.
I don't really eat bacon (substitutes) alone, just as years ago I didn't really like eating bacon plain. But I really really love (fake)BLTs. I've always really liked the Lightlife for that. It works really well. I might have to try the homemade ones, they look fun!
Something a local vegan donut shop does are these maple bacon donuts, where they use smoked coconut as a replacement. I don't know how they get it that chewy, but it's fantastic.
I think freezing the Sweet Earth bacon might have messed up its texture. I always buy it refrigerated and have never had the texture issue you seemed to encounter!
Glad I’m not the only carnivore that enjoys these videos. It’s absolutely fascinating absolutely awesome! And want to try so many of these recipes! Especially bacon! I want to try one of these substitutes to see how it tastes! Bacon for me is one of those things I don’t have an off switch on I could eat my weight in it! So if there’s even a healthier option out there I’m so curious!!
Now if you really wanted to make it look like bacon you could take some of the rice paper and cut it up and somehow intertwine it with the daikon to make it look like curled bacon more. Or you could just eat them
I had just picked up the Sweet Earth bacon before seeing this and so glad we agree! So many folks were all about it that I thought maybe something was wrong lol The smell was incredible though but other than that: meh. Gonna check out the All Vegetarian Inc! Thank you!
For your bacon made out of rice paper...I just tried this and it makes for a better texture,don't cut the rice paper.role it on to itself trapping some flavor in it. Fry it in a pan with a neutral oil as if real bacon, it will bubble more but simply pop them flat,let it crisp on both sides and voila. Better texture rice paper bacon.
I don't eat anything with soy so the rice paper and daikon versions are great. I've also made carrot "bacon" before. Came out really good from the marinade I used then baked. You should try that and eggplant "bacon." Also, I originally spotted being making rice paper "bacon" on RU-vid about a year or so ago. One of the people who did it used 2-3 strips of paper that meld together by placing the 2-3 strips together before putting in water then marinade. It produced heartier, thicker pieces.
As my son-in-law said, ANYTHING would taste great marinated in that bacon marinade. By the way, my son-in-law (and daughter and most of their friends) are vegetarians but my husband and I are not and tonight I'm making daikon bacon for the second time but with less oil because I'm on WW and without the oil it is a zero point food and it tastes good. Extra yum.
Nutrition wise I think sweat Earth is the best, especially for the protein to calorie ratio, still would love to try your bacon coz it looks like it nails the flavore better. Also you should call it the radish rasher.
Love your videos, was wondering/hoping if you had plans or ideas of how to turn your jackfruit chicken wings/drumsticks into turkey for thanksgiving? Also, as a fellow Central Floridian, hoping maybe for some Dixie Dharma copycat recipes!
I haven't tried it, but Gaz Oakley (aka Avantgardevegan) uses coconut flakes to make "bacon" pieces for his Caesar Salad (basically the same recipe as the rice paper or daikon).
I love the videos. I want to try the all vegetarian inc bacon. That looks good but I cannot find where to buy it. I would love to try that bacon with your plant burger video. Make a vegan bacon burger.
My husband warned me not to watch the videos about the pigs three years ago. I was a vegetarian but after seeing the way pigs were treated I had to stop eating all animal products. My husband thinks its fine to eat milk, even though I explained about the boy cows. My family had a veal calf barn for a few months the suffering of these calves was intolerable. I don't think when you eat bacon you think of the video but I do. I really don't want fake bacon but something better.
I love the All Vegetarian Inc. “Baecon”. But I haven’t found it in stores yet … only at our fav Vegan restaurant The Cozy Plum in Santa Rosa… they keep saying that Vegetarian Inc only sells to restaurants so far… I love experimenting and making my own, and have come up with a Seiten recipe that all of my Meat eating friends ask for repeatedly. I saw your seiten recipe recently and am going to give it a try. I was surprised that you didn’t cook the seiten just refrigerated it and then sliced it … thank you for sharing your creativity!!!
Ima a new to this plant based diet it’s about 3 weeks and I should have watched this before I bought that benevolent bacon. It smelled and tasted like dog food. I can’t wait to make the other alternatives
For someone who eats meat. It would be interesting to have them try a whole bunch of non meat bacon and actul bacon be mixed in and ask them which was closet to bacon and not tell them one is bacon. And see if they think the actull bacon taste like bacon to them without knowing it lol
Not a huge fan of seitan bacon but if you try the Gaz Oakley bacon recipe (I added some extra smoky and maple like flavors) and then fry it up, it has the texture of almost undercooked bacon...the more chewy kind. It’s pretty bomb.
When I make fake bacon, I make sure to twist them like twizzlers a bit right out of the pan, it add a bit of that wavy texture, twist both ways, randomly and lay them out with a slight curl
If you'd like to mimic "the curl factor", throw some chopsticks across the board you let the bacon dry off on.. Might not be quite the same but helps add a bit of shape, i can imagine
I have watch your videos so many times and I'm trying to curve myself over to a plant-based diet and I just found the lightlife bacon and it is really good so thank you for the review even my granddaughter likes it was a big bacon fan so that's a big plus
I absolutely agree about Sweet Earth. I was thoroughly disappointed with that bacon for pretty much all the reasons you stated. Plus how messy it is. I’d give it negative stars if I could. I want to try the daikon bacon.
