Include protein structures in fake meat growing that will contract and relax in response to electrical impulses.

It seems the fake meat business is suffering from a texture problem. My experience is limited to what fast food outlets offered as I have never bought the “raw” product or cooked it at home. The mouth feel was slimy unless overcooked to a granular, non-meat consistency. If there was any juice I couldn’t tell where it came from. Didn’t taste bad, really, but the taste was not the problem. Most fast food burgers don't taste like meat anyway. Never again.

Unless, of course, a way to replicate the grain of a nice strip sirloin, or a skirt steak streaked with fat could be simulated. Tweaked to conduct electricity like those couch-potato exercise belts that induce abdominal seizures, the growing meat culture could flex! The educated fibers could not only provide grain but also hold moisture or fat. There are different exercises and workout schedules for cuts of beef, or turkey leg, or ox tail. The food lab as gymnasium.

This texture problem has been addressed unsuccessfully by extrusion and culture medium structure. Never by electricity.
-- minoradjustments, Jun 03 2025

Turning Gatorade Into Meat https://youtu.be/EJ...si=WLehviiI44zAgA3v
Alternative Meat Primer [minoradjustments, Jun 03 2025]

I think that it might require a resistance to contract against; and so perhaps the most obvious way to do this is to attach the ends of the cultured meat to hinged levers. Since the purchasing public desire different simulated "cuts" such as //sirloin, or a skirt steak//, the levers could be arranged in the shape of an animal skeleton. The meat culture could grow into natural muscle shapes and formations; the mesh of electrical connections like a nervous system; and so the thing twitches and writhes...
-- pocmloc, Jun 03 2025


Doing curls working against the muscle of calf's calf seems oddly appealing, if a little untidy.
-- RayfordSteele, Jun 03 2025


In this day and age it kind of makes sense.

Dr. Ho to the rescue.

"You can stimulate your fake beef to your desired consistency!"
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Jun 04 2025


This is supposed to happen in the kitchen, not the bedroom. But good.
-- minoradjustments, Jun 04 2025



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