Just wondering what the consensus would be. Is it good and fine (if you like the taste, of course) because it is truly 100% vegan? Or would y’all consider it a horrifying simulacrum of a product of cruelty towards animals?

I am asking because I’m a vegan chef and I was excited to find out that they’re making animal-free “dairy” milk through bacterial/fungal fermentation, because plant based “milks” don’t really work the same as cow milk does. And theoretically if it has the right proteins/fats it could be used to make vegan cheese that has the actual properties of cheese? So like I think it’s very exciting personally. But I’d like to know what others think before I suggest we try to order some, since it’d be a waste if nobody actually wanted to eat anything made with it.

  • AmericaDelendaEst [comrade/them]@hexbear.netOP
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    I made a “cheese” sauce out of potato/onion and nutritional yeast and stuff and like it tasted good but it still doesn’t really taste like cheese, it’s kinda like it’s own thing yknow?

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      Something I’ve tried but never got entirely how I wanted was adding more potato starch to that cheese sauce and a bit of flower so it’s a bit thicker and then you can label a bit onto a flat top and cook it into a vegan kraft single. It was at my old job and covid got in the way of scientific progress, but it’s for sure something that could be done