Your Favorite Veggie Burger

[standing_alone]

The only kind of veggie burgers I've had were Boca burgers and I thought they were pretty good. Though I had some kind of tofu hot dogs before (years ago) and those really really sucked.

 

[MaddLlama]

BJ's is a wholesale club like Costco's. But, apparently nobody knows anything about them at that site. =) I would assume they're a "blue" company though, because they're huge in New England, which is generally a "blue" area of the states.

Cool website though, thanks.

 

[lilithu]

All egg is is a binder... I've had delicious vegan muffins and cake, I see no reason for burgers to be any different.

Yes, it's a binder, which is not insignificant. The kind of binder you use greatly affects the texture of the food.

I don't want my burger to have the texture of a muffin. Otherwise, I might as well just put a piece of bread between my bread.

That said, agar is a viable vegan alternative binder to eggs, tho four times as expensive.

 

[FFH]

B. Garden - too grainy, but better than Boca

I've had these and think they are wonderful, but of course expensive so we now buy, in the bulk section of our local health food store, the dry whole wheat veggie burger mix, add hot water, mix and then fry in real butter, yummmm...

Eat them plain or between two slices of whole wheat bread, or whole wheat burger buns, mayonaise and ketchup...

 

[giant space amoeba]

A UK brand: Quorn. Im not a veggie, but this is the nicest kind i've had.

 

[Valjean]

I haven't tried all the brands mentioned, as some aren't strictly vegan, but I do like the regular style Boca burgers.
I found Lilithu's characterization of Boca burgers as "too meaty" kind of amusing. I'd always thought these products were intedned to be imitation beef patties

 

[thewanderer]

There's this store called Trader Joe's which has this this Indian masala veggie burgers and they are so good.

 

[lilithu]

I found Lilithu's characterization of Boca burgers as "too meaty" kind of amusing. I'd always thought these products were intedned to be imitation beef patties

Yeah, I found it amusing too. Nevertheless, I stand by my own judgement. Maybe "meaty" is not the right word but there's something about the texture that bothers me. It's as if they tried to capture the texture of meat and went too far... for my tastes. (Might I also point out that the texture of roast beef makes me literally gag, and I'm not vegetarian, so it's not the idea of meat that bothers me.)

Some veggie burgers try to imitate a meat texture, like Boca and morningstar. And some don't. For example, Dr. Praeger's California style burgers is a mixture of veggies - you can see whole soy beans and other veggie bits in it. No one would mistake it for meat. They're very tasty! (tho I don't know if they're vegan).

 

[KSojourner]

Too bad there is a choice of "all of the above."

 

[Doodlebug02]

I voted for some obscure brand. I ate veggie burgers once before and can't remember what brand they were. Regardless, I didn't like them very well. They tasted too much like vegetables.

 

[Green Gaia]

Truthfully, I buy which ever one is one sale. I don't remember who makes it, Morning, Garden or Boca, but one makes a wonderful Spicy Black Bean burger that I love!

 

[Kungfuzed]

I've never had a veggie burger. How do they compare to the real beef?

 

[Jaymes]

Veggie burgers are generally much less greasy... though the Boca burgers I have can get pretty greasy if I microwave them. Bleh.

I think they have a slightly different taste from the "real thing", depending on what kind you get and what you put on it it may be more or less pronounced, but I vastly prefer them to beef burgers.

 

[Kungfuzed]

I imagine it's something like a wad of spinach compressed into a pattie and held together with something sticky like peanut butter.

 

[Jaymes]

:biglaugh: No, it's nothing like that! I may not have a very vivid memory of exactly what beef burgers tasted like, but I know they didn't taste that different!