Beef

Did Steve Jobs Harass Spotify’s CEO With Weird, Breathy Phone Calls?

It’s no secret that Spotify and Apple have beef. But according to a Variety interview with the authors of a new book, Spotify Untold, that beef dates all the way back to 2010 when Steve Jobs would purportedly prank call Spotify CEO Daniel Ek… and just breathe deeply into the phone. What? For context, at…

Tyson Launches Its First Plant-Based Protein Brand to Compete With Beyond Meat

Tyson Foods is launching the company’s first plant-based protein brand, called Raised & Rooted, that will feature vegetarian nuggets that taste like chicken and blended burgers that still contain beef but are arguably more healthy. Tyson’s new brand will compete with Beyond Meat, one of the first companies along with Impossible Foods to make a…

Cattle Ranchers Are Trying to Get the Word ‘Meat’ Taken Off the Labels of Meat Substitutes

The rise of Impossible Foods and its signature Impossible Burger, the plant-based burger brand that is all the rage lately, and their faux-meat ilk has apparently rattled some in the cattle business. The New York Times reported this weekend on a spate of state laws aiming to outlaw the use of the word “meat” on…

The New Impossible Burger Is Stupid Delicious

To many meat-eaters, the Impossible Burger is a rude idea. This plant-based beef substitute is designed to look like meat, grill like meat, and taste like meat. As someone who recently tasted an Impossible Burger for the first time, I can safely say that these claims aren’t true. Then, at a buzzy event in Las…

New Test Can Detect Traces of Horse Meat in Your Beef

As a species, we have largely categorized animals as Too Cute To Eat, Too Weird To Eat, or Meat. I do not understand these rules, because I think bugs, normally in the Too Weird category, and rabbit, normally in the Too Cute category, taste very good, while chickens (“Meat”) are terrifying salmonella dinosaurs. However, it…

Will Your Next Taco Contain This Secret Ingredient? 

There’s some crazy meat industry propaganda video waiting to be made where an All-American jock takes a bite out of a hamburger served by a polite waiter, who then rips off a mask to reveal the demented face of someone from the mushroom industry shouting “that burger is 50 percent mushrooms,” after which the customer…

Americans Have Somehow Helped the Environment Without Even Trying

Climate change is bad, beef is bad, everything is bad, yadda yadda. But Americans ate less beef between 2005 and 2014, which kept a lot of greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere, according to a new study. Maybe cutting back on those hamburgers is actually doing something good for the environment. The Natural Resource Defense…

Why Beef Is About to Get Cheaper

Fire up the grill and invite me over, friend. Today, we feast in celebration. The latest USDA meat production projections are out, and they predict that, after years of domination by chicken, beef will become the fastest growing meat category over the course of the next decade. Beef isn’t just going to be more available,…

Don’t Waste Your Time on VR Marketing Ploys

If you haven’t heard, virtual reality is finally happening. Like, for real this time. And everyone wants a piece of the action: CNN, NBA, Sports Illustrated, Showtime Boxing, and TED to name a few. All of these companies have recently used VR as a marketing ploy, and quite frankly, the “experiences” they’ve created are all…

How to cook a steak perfectly

If you want to treat a delicious hunk of meat in the best most perfectest way possible, you shouldn’t just throw it on a pan. Instead, you should utilize all the techniques used in this video by How To You: make sure you get a good, thick cut, salt and pepper the hell out of…

Study Finds 20 Percent of Ground Meat Isn’t What It Says On the Label

Once it’s been processed and pulped, most red meat looks more or less the same. This seems to be helping unscrupulous meat suppliers: according to a new survey, 20% of ground meat contains more than what’s just on the label. Correction: A previous version of this article mistakenly said that ground beef was one of…

Why Is Beef So Expensive This Year?

You may have noticed something a little odd happening at your meat counter. Most meat prices, especially for chicken and pork, are down—but beef prices are surging. Just what’s going on here? Part of it is the rise around the world of people buying beef. But that’s also been paired with a curious trend: In…

Video: Meat glue turns cheap cuts of beef into a fake ribeye steak

Meat glue is always going to be totally weird sounding but we’ve all eaten it before (if you eat at fast food restaurants, at least). It’s derived from blood and is a clotting agent that allows different types of meat to stick to each other, hence the name. You can do a lot of weird,…

How The Amount of Meat We Eat Changed In The Last 40 Years, Charted​

As a planet, we’re producing and eating more meat than we used to. But just what does that look like in terms of our plates 40 years ago versus today? This chart shows us exactly. The chart, via the FAO’s statistics office, shows how much meat is in the world supply per capita, today versus…

The Anatomy of Steak Cuts Explained in Two Minutes

If you’ve ever wondered what the difference between a Kansas City Strip and a Sirloin was, or where the hell the T in your T-bone came from, this video will help. The best kind of anatomy lesson, this clip by Eater explains where all the most important cuts of steak come from—as well as telling…

The new Double Down burger is even more ridiculous than the original

Foodbeast found a new KFC Double Down burger that is even more insane than the original: the Zinger Double Down King at KFCs in Korea. Instead of just sandwiching bacon and cheese with two fried chicken filets, this Double Down uses the same fried chicken for buns but adds a sauced up burger patty in…

Are we about to hit “peak meat”? Globally, meat production has skyrocketed since the ’60s. But though our appetite for meat shows no signs of slowing, our ability to devote huge swaths of land, water, and feed to its production may be hitting its limits. Image: Worldwatch Institute

How much does it cost to eat a steak? Over at Science Friday, they’re taking on that question not in terms of dollars but in terms of land and water use. Beef stacks up highest by far among animal proteins in resource consumption, using up 28 times the amount of land than poultry does.

How To Cook A Steak Over A Campfire

If there’s any better feeling than that brought by throwing a steak on a campfire, we don’t want to know what it is. Here’s how to get your meat right every time. What You’ll Need: Steaks (the best quality you can buy). Salt and Pepper. A grill rack (optional). Long, sturdy tongs. Heavy leather gloves,…

Steaklocker Could Let You Dry-Age Delicious Beef Chunks at Home

Dry-aged beef. It’s a phrase that gets fancy steak-lovers’ mouths all drooly. The magic dance of enzymes and moisture reduction creates out-of-this-world flavor and tenderness that, unless you’ve got restaurant-grade equipment, you can’t recreate at home. Steaklocker wants to change that, with a device on Kickstarter that promises to bring that meaty magic to your…