I’ve been excited to try the vegan Impossible Burger. These days I’m very selective about any ground beef that I will eat and there are no ground beef worries with the Impossible Burger.  I found that The Cuff Restaurant in Old Town Glendale now offers many Vegan items now and one is the Impossible Burger. The Impossible burger gets it’s meat like quality from something they call heme that comes from soy roots. The heme is also suppose to make the vegan burger patty bleed. Heme is also a protein that most people on a vegan diet don’t get so this burger in moderation can be beneficial to people on vegan diets.

At The Cuff you have the choice to go completely vegan with vegan cheese. I went vegetarian with real cheese that was cheddar. The burger was what I was going for here.

My burger arrived open faced and was topped with a slice of cheddar and caramelized onions. On the top bun half was mixed greens, tomato and a particularly good pickle chip. I cut my burger in half hoping for vegetable blood like on the Table tent photo.

 

It’s a little dry and crumbly but does have a nice sear.

It crumbles more when I break some off for my husband to try.

I put it together to try the way it’s meant to be eaten.

It’s not bad…….It’s almost like meat but with something textural wise I’m missing and more crumbly. The pickle and ketchup cover up a lot of the Impossible burger’s taste. I get a weird butter-like after taste that I’m not found of but I’m not sure if that taste comes from the cooking process of the burger, cheese or the bun. I think it taste something like margarine…..or an imitation butter.

It seemed like my Impossible Burger might have been over cooked?????

Maybe the Impossible Burger is Impossible to cook correctly?……… I don’t know?….

As luck would have it I found another Impossible Burger at PNPK in North Scottsdale so I decided to give that one a try and see if it differed any……and I was also hoping for blood….VEGETABLE Blood that is….

This impossible burger is offered as a slider. Both Impossible Burgers came with Impossible Flags on them. You have your choice of many different toppings. I tried mine with Brie and Mushrooms.

I’m going in for a bite and ……in a Vampire Voice like in a classic Bela Lugosi ….”I’m hoping for Blood…Blah Blah Blah Vegetable blood!”…….

No blood here either but this one does have juice and isn’t crumbly like the last one. It does have a texture that might be confused for meat.  This one really does feel like meat in my mouth. It’s very close to meat.  I think if I was a vegetarian I might fear that I was eating meat and be grossed out. This one taste better and I’m not getting that imitation butter flavor that the last one had…..My husband refuses to try this one after trying the last one……. He said maybe you can find some Impossible Meat at the store and make it into something better…..

I’m thinking maybe the Impossible Taco, Burrito or Meatball is next?

Who Knows?

Those were my FORKING Thoughts on trying two Vegan Impossible Burgers in Metro Phoenix AZ.

Everything is SUBJECT TO CHANGE and your experience may or may NOT differ.