Buying meat is hard. Unless you’re a butcher or a chef, it can be difficult to tell what’s what. Does a Boston butt actually come from a cow’s butt? Where is the tenderloin? Smart graphic design can make it a little easier to answer these questions.
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Whether you are pro guns or against them, every American can surely agree that we should all have a beef jerky gun in our homes because… meat!
I’m pretty sure beef jerky snacks are the human equivalent to Beggin’ Strips for dogs. Everyone loves beef jerky. Not just Randy “Macho Man” Savage. This is why you get a beef jerky gun – so you can make your own tasty jerky snack sticks any time you want one. We have the right to bare meat!
Forget that. Didn’t sound right at all. It’s only $27.04(USD) from Amazon and it will keep you in jerky snacks for a long long time. Just load it up with ingredients, pull the trigger and shoot.
[via Smoking Meat Forums and This Is Why I’m Broke]
When it comes to business cards, it is all about making an impression. Sometimes that means a flashy card with great graphics. Sometimes it means a clever card that lights up or turns into a pop-up book or something. But nothing leaves a good impression like a tasty treat.
Meat Cards is doing things right. They’re laser-etching your contact information onto strips of beef jerky. Now you can make an impression by feeding their hunger. The cards are edible for up to a year. The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach after all.
Even if they eat it, they are bound to remember you.
[via TAXI via Gizmodo via That’s Nerdalicious]
Though slowly becoming antiquated, the business card is still the easiest way to make a great first impression with a new contact. Your choice of design, fonts, even paper says a lot about you. So imagine the impression you’ll leave when you hand someone your contact details laser-etched onto a piece of beef jerky—you’ll soar up that corporate ladder.
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If you were Queen Tiye of Egypt’s parents you wouldn’t want to go to the Otherworld just with some bread and beer and wine and jewelry. You would like to eat a good ribeye beef steak, prepared with a mixture of fat, beeswax, and Pistacia resin.
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Like every other major metropolis, New York City has tunnels for people, tunnels for cars, and lots of tunnels for trains. But it also has something rather more unique: tunnels for cows. Or does it? This is the story of New York’s lost, forgotten, or perhaps just mythical subterranean meat infrastructure.
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Smell-o-vision is real, and you can now experience it firsthand with Scentee. In case you haven’t heard about it yet, Scentee is a small smartphone attachment that gives you a whiff of real-world scents and smells at the push of a button (or rather, with a tap on the screen.)
Various scent cartridges for the Scentee already exist, such as coffee, corn soup, apples, and cinnamon rolls.
The latest addition is the Hana Yakiniku, which adds the delicious aromas of grilled short ribs, beef tongue, and buttered potatoes the growing catalog. Just fire up the accompanying app, choose which meat you want to smell, and breathe deep…
Unlike what the promo video suggests, I don’t think this can substitute for eating actual meat. But hey, you’re welcome to follow what they instruct in the video – just let us know how it goes for you.
[via BitRebels]
Ground meat. It’s what’s for dinner. It’s not only tasty, but also highly sculptable. Is that a word? Well, it is now. Just look at that MEAT2-D2, there;s a Death Star and a TIE Fighter too. I hope it’s low in fat. Not because of any diet that I’m on, but because I want to cook this stuff and not have it shrink to like 2-inches-tall.
These amusing meat sculptures come from Epic Grinds who creates movie and video game sculptures out of meat. Yes, that’s a thing. So…meet this meat. Do you like each other? Good. Now eat!
Be sure to check out Epic Grinds’ other meat sculptures. There are Metroid and Pokémon meats among others. I choose to eat you, Pikachu!
[via Kotaku via Laughing Squid]
I love burgers and I love steaks. I love vegetables (some of them) and I love the environment. Unfortunately, you can’t really love all of them at once (with the exception of veggies) because raising cattle is extremely taxing on the environment.
With the goal of producing beef that doesn’t entirely come from cows (yes, perplexing, isn’t it?), Professor Mark Post and his colleagues of Maastricht University set to work.
The results of their research has resulted in the first public tasting of a lab-grown burger that cost $330,000(USD) to make.
Post explains: “That we are trying today is important because I hope it will show cultured beef has the answers to major problems that the world faces. Our burger is made from muscle cells taken from a cow. We haven’t altered them in any way. For it to succeed it has to look, feel and hopefully taste like the real thing.”
So how the meat cultured? Muscle tissues were first taken from cows on an organic farm. These were then cultured in a nutrient solution, where they multiplied to form strands. Over 20,000 of these strands were collected to make a 5-oz burger.
The cultured burger was prepared by chef Richard McGeown. Among the tasters were Chicago-based author Josh Schonwald and Austrian food researcher Hanni Rützle.
On the burger, Schonwald commented: “The burger had a very bland, neutral flavor. The thing that made it most similar to real beef was the texture. When I bit into it, I was impressed with the bite and how it had a kind of density that was familiar.”
Post explains that it might take ten more years or so before cultured meat makes its way onto consumer’s plates.
What do you think? Would you take a bite of cultured meat or will you only eat the real thing?
[via Gizmag]
A couple of tasters, who claim they’re unpaid and impartial, are currently chomping their way through some very expensive artificial flesh at a publicity event in London. According to the BBC’s science correspondent Pallab Ghosh, who is also at the gathering, the main feedback so far is that the meat — which is presented as a burger — isn’t as juicy or tasty as the real thing, mainly because it’s totally lean. The substance was grown by a team at the University of Maastricht, with a spot of funding from none other than Google visionary Sergey Brin, who believes the technology is on the “cusp of viability” as a solution to animal welfare issues. Lead researcher Prof. Mark Post doesn’t seem too disheartened by the tasters’ comments, but says he’s working to improve flavor. At a current cost of $325,000 per patty, people are going to expect something special regardless of the ethical or ecological arguments — and some cajun spices probably won’t cut it.
Filed under: Misc, Science, Alt
Source: @BBCPallab (Twitter)
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