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Soy sauce is vegan though?

What do you mean soy sauce isn't vegan? Ingredients water, soybeans, wheat, salt.

The Fee Foam cocktail foam is legitimately much less hassle than egg whites. I'm vegan so I don't know if it tastes better (both are bad in large amounts) but I hear that it's caught on at bars.

Bean burger.

It's specific, but Quorn nuggets are objectively superior to chicken nuggets in every way.

Better taste, better texture, no gristle, easier to cook all the way through, zero (well okay, much less) chance of food poisoning.

Even if you're not a vegetarian there's simply no reason to eat chicken nuggets any more, they're fully obsolete.

Not sure if this is what you were looking for but a friend who was a chef at some high end restaurants told me these taste better than actual breaded fish fillets.

Oat milk.

nooch is much better than the dairy analogues closest to it, like shelf stable super dessicated cheese-dairy things like chip coverings, kraft 'parmesan'. very firmly believe that doritos would be better with nooch than their actual cheese based recipe.

I love seitan so so so much more than meat. I always was uncomfortable with meat, especially preparing it, and once I found that there were viable alternatives that I could simply replace meat with in pretty much every recipe I already knew was life changing and I legitimately never looked back.

not sure for individual ingredients but I prefer vegan chili, with lentils &

"Better tasting" is highly subjective. For me, I hardly remember what animal flesh and secretions taste like. If I eat a food imitating one that's normally made with flesh, I don't even judge it as an "alternative" anymore. I judge it based on whether or not it tastes good on its own. That's a good enough metric for me, regardless of how close it comes to the "original," and like I said, it's highly subjective. Since I don't interpret animal-derived things as food anymore, I personally have nothing to compare the alternatives to considering the way my mind operates now.

It's also worth noting that these alternatives can be prepared in a wide variety of ways. If you're thinking about particular brands for plant-based alternatives, there are a variety of different ingredients used as bases. One brand of plant-based nuggets may use soy as a base, another may be made of gluten, and some even use pea protein or jackfruit. I generally find soy-based things very tasty to me, except in the case of non-dairy cheese. I'd rather them be some kind of nut-based, usually cashew-based, and it's great to make these plant-based cheeses at home if you have a blender.

Also, to second @EndMilkInCrisps@hexbear.net, soy sauce is already vegan. The source you got that from probably mixed it up with fish sauce or something of the sort, or they might've been thinking about the fact that soy sauce isn't gluten-free instead, which is a lot more of a common mix-up than one might think.

As much as I love sour cream, there are some instances where a vegan cream tastes better, usually due to the butteriness of cashews. I also prefer oat milk over regular, but sadly oat ice cream can't quite compete with frozen custard in terms of flavor. Maybe if it was some sort of coconut cream and agar combination.... 🤔

I don't super like coconut animos. They're fine, but too sweet imo. But, Tamari is good as well, and I do really like this vegan 'fish sauce' my local asian mart sells, made from fermented pinapple.

Oat milk is the big one to me. I think its so much tastier than dairy milk.

While I'm not a vegan or vegetarian, personally NotMilk is what came to mind- it genuinely tastes so incredibly like milk, I was shocked- yet it also has that subtle pineapple flavor (part of what they used to imitate milk, I guess) making it even better. I don't tend to consider other plant-based milks a replacement but rather their own separate drinks- but NotMilk really hit the spot.

Other than that, while it's subjective... I've tried Chinese mock duck and other mock meats (generally gluten and tofu based) prepared in ways that were really tasty and could more than replace certain kinds of dishes.

Anything that uses ground beef, I substitute firm tofu. It soaks up the flavors so much better. You can do it any style. I make Asian "beef" bowls and Mexican taco meat like this.

How is soy sauce not vegan? There's only soybeans, wheat, water, and salt in it.

Anyway, tofu is pretty good and may be better than chicken in some recipes. I recommend buying the good stuff (fresh tofu from any Asian grocery store should do, don't buy western discounter brands). Maangchi has great recipes, this home style tofu is great too. Easy as well.

Honestly I haven't been too motivated to cook vegan in a long time but this site makes me remember it was good.

• sheppard's pie with whole mung beans for the filling

• vegan cheese sauce ("nooge"): blend silken tofu with nutritional yeast flakes. Seasoning e.g. black pepper, paprika, tiny amount ground mustard seed or prepared mustard.

• chai with almond milk

if you can find it, chicken of the woods mushrooms work as a damn good substitute for not just chicken but pretty much any kind of meat depending on how you prepare it

i like to blend it and season it with cumin (and other things you'd use for taco seasoning) for tacos, and it's honestly a lot better than ground beef ever could be