- Everybody loves bacon.
And now you guys can indulge in a kinder way.
Hey guys, my name is Suresh
and on today's episode of EATKINDLY With Me,
we're going to be doing another taste test of vegan bacon.
In case you missed it.
I recently did an episode
of the ultimate vegan cheese taste test, and Oh my God
that cheese was so freaking good.
I've gotten a lot of comments and feedback from that video.
I absolutely for a kid loved bacon, eons ago
when I did eat meat and didn't know any better.
Now that I don't, I have been really really on
the search and look out for some good vegan bacon.
So today we're going to be doing a fry up and taste,
we're going to make BLTs,
and then we're going to do maple vegan bacon cookies.
Very unfortunately, pork is one
of the top four greenhouse gas generating animal products
right after lamb, beef, and cheese.
Americans consume enough bacon a year to
produce 49.6 billion pounds of CO2 emissions
which is the same amount as 4.75 million cars.
So I am absolutely thrilled to share these brands
with you guys today.
And without further ado, let's do this.
All right. so we're going to be trying
out three different types of vegan bacon today.
One from a brand called the Yves
which I know is really popular.
Another one is from one of my favorite brands,
called Upton's Naturals, this is a Bacon Seitan.
And then the third is from Lightlife.
It is one of the most popular vegan bacon.
I feel like everywhere that I go I see
the Eve one is a very salami looking
pepperoni like scent to it,
Upton's Naturals one looks to me the most like bacon
I would say.
That one is you can see just has a very
kind of crumbly thin paper-like texture to it.
And then our last one here by Lightlife it looks almost more
like a ham or like a deli slice ham.
They are very easy to cook up.
The directions are on the package and they fry up just
like bacon, and they sound like bacon,
they smell like bacon.
All right, we have cooked up the bacon and I'm very
very excited to give these a taste.
So let's go ahead and see what these tastes like.
So number one, kind of tears apart, just like
so it's a little bit tougher.
It smells very much like bacon
with like a touch of pepperoni.
Delicious, definitely has more of a pull to it,
it has a nice texture, good body to it.
That was the Yves Veggie cuisine, veggie bacon.
Number two, our Bacon Seitan from Upton's Naturals.
Smells like bacon, looks like bacon.
All right, let's give it a taste bon a petite.
Oh my God, you guys that tastes just like bacon.
It's very crispy,
it's also because it's slices are very thin,
so it crisps up faster.
It has a nice bite to it.
It's definitely lighter than the Yves one.
Okay, and let's give our Lightlife bacon
a taste test as well, bon a petite.
Ooh, so good it legit tastes like bacon.
It handles like bacon, it's not as greasy.
It has a lot more flavor than number two does, who knew?
My favorite of all of them is the Lightlife one.
It has the most texture,
it feels and handles very much like bacon, so good.
All right guys, time for our next round.
We are going to have vegan BLTs.
I am so freaking excited.
I of course use our favorites by Follow Your Heart.
Lots and lots of big organic sliced tomatoes.
Then a little bit of a arugala as well
keeping it simple so we can really taste the bacon
but still giving it a little bit more umph right?
First one we're going to try is the Yves bacon
and that's this one right here.
It smells so delicious, it just looks so delicious.
I love the colors, I love all the textures
bon a petite my mouths watering here we go.
Definitely has that nice chewiness to it
that I remember from the single taste test.
It feels really Hardy in the sandwich.
All right, our second BLT is using the Upton's Natural.
This one of course lacked a little bit
of flavor when I tasted it on its own.
This one looks, I feel like the most like bacon
perhaps Lightlife one as well.
Now that one tastes exactly like bacon you guys,
crunches and crumbles like bacon.
That's very unexpected, I see you Upton's, I see you girl.
Last one We have our Lightlife Bacon,
looks very much like a classic BLT, let's give it a taste.
Oh my God that is so delicious.
Definitely has a very bacony feel to it.
It holds up in the sandwich.
I can smell it, I can taste it in there,
but I have to say the winner of this round
is, our Bacon Seitan from Upton's Naturals.
So fricking good, please give this a shot.
All right guys ,
we are on to my favorite part of the taste test cookies.
I'm going to be making us vegan maple bacon cookies.
And it's a very easy recipe to make.
You'll need two and a quarter cups, all purpose flour,
You'll need half a cup of sugar, half a cup of vegan butter,
half a cup of maple syrup,
one teaspoon of good vanilla extract,
one teaspoon of baking soda, and half a teaspoon of salt.
And of course our magic ingredient is our vegan bacon.
I have a few pieces from all three of our brands.
All right, I have mixed all the ingredients together.
Come up with the beautiful dough.
It's a very crumbly dough.
So that's exactly what you want.
I'm going to start with a bacon number one Yves bacon.
Now this bacon is the one that's quite fleshy,
it's quite thick.
We're going to do bacon number two,
this one is much more crumbly.
So we're going to crumble that this is
of course the Upton's Naturals, Bacon Seitan.
I'm falling more and more in love with this,
the more I see this
and smell this I'm telling you.
All right and then bacon number three
is our Lightlife smart bacon.
I might actually reduce the butter in each
because clearly I did not make enough bacon.
Just kind of take spoonfuls of this into your hand,
form a cookie I do about one to two tablespoons.
So maybe what I'll do is make two of each, some of bacon
number two and onto three.
At this point, I've just abandoned my spoon.
And I'm just rolling this up by hand.
All right so the cookies are on the sheet.
They are all rolled up 10 to 15 minutes at 350
is really all they need.
They want them to golden Brown
on the outside and thin down just a little let's do it.
Cookies are out of the oven, time to taste test
these delicious looking beauties.
I gave them a very light glaze
with some maple syrup as well.
All right, we're going to start off
with our Yves Bacon right here.
The cookie itself,
it's quite moist has a really good chew to it
freaking delicious you guys, oh my God.
Number two is our bacon from Upton's Naturals.
It definitely looks the most like bacon
so let's give this one a shot.
That is so good, oh my God.
Now the flavor of this bacon really is working nicely
with the cookie recipe and I can really
really taste the bacon.
I definitely taste the Upton's Bacon Seitan,
way more in this cookie.
So that is fricking delicious.
Let's give our last cookie a try here.
And this is of course our Lightlife.
God, I love these videos.
I will say all three of the Bacon's
held up quite nicely in the oven.
They didn't dry out, they didn't lose their flavor.
So I would say the winner
of this bacon taste test round is our bacon
number two, the Upton's Naturals Bacon Seitan.
The salty bite really comes
through taste very much like bacon.
Oh my God you guys,
you have to give this a shot.
All right guys,
so that wraps up another taste test with Suresh.
I swear to you just
like in the cheese video, these were legit.
Let me know in the comments down below.
If you have tried it
if you're going to try it,
give me the deeds guys I want to know
also let me know what you guys
would like me to taste test next.
Maybe vegan ice cream
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I hope you guys are having a fantastic day
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Okay. Bye.