VIDEO. The first "test-tube hamburger" tasted in London - Le Parisien

250,000 euros. This was the first burger cost in vitro created from stem cells from cows, two duly sworn tasters had the privilege of tasting this Monday in London at a large marquee celebrating a potentially revolutionary experience.

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“researcher culinary trends” Austrian and American author of a book on “the taste of tomorrow”, were given the honor of being the first to eat in public, steak created all Parts laboratory cooked before their eyes by its creator, a Dutch scientist at the University of Maastricht, Mark Post.

Verdict? A “taste pretty intense,” the “same texture” and a general profile “near meat” despite a “lack of fat”, both have decided tasters who have not finished their meal, however, despite its prohibitive cost.

Six weeks to make the “Frankenburger”

Mark Post, who himself tasted a small piece in this presentation public and posted on the Internet, has still found a “good start” for his burger, once nicknamed “Frankenburger” by the British press.

With his team, he took six weeks to make this steak from cow stem cells grown in the laboratory. They added bread crumbs, salt, powdered egg and beet juice and saffron for color.

Chef Richard McGowan said during the broadcast that he prepared the steak “business as usual” with sunflower oil and butter in a pan.

If for the moment the complicated manufacturing process makes the company particularly long and costly technology is expected to provide future solutions to the same set of “major problems for the planet.”

VIDEO. The first “test-tube hamburger” tasted
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