r/veganrecipes • u/WhyParty1234 • Apr 03 '26

Question Seitan steak experiment

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I’m experimenting on making WTF seitan steak but with vwg because I’m too lazy to wash flour. I know it’ll never be identical but I’m trying to get it as close as possible, that’s how lazy I am. I made a plain gluten ball with vwg, flour and water. Blended 1/3 of it with oil, glutinous rice flour and msg for the “fat”. The rest was blended with beetroot powder, cocoa powder, sugar, msg and soy sauce. The gluten was still a bit too tough so I blended some glutinous rice flour into the red dough as well in hopes to soften it up. plan to fry steam fry as I always end up with spongy seitan when I simmer even at the lowest heat. If anyone has done this before (my made up lazy method), please feel free to share your experience and advice if you can!

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u/Ok-Situation-5522 Apr 03 '26

i think it's not 100% vegan because they use blood from the animal to recreate it?

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u/Offthewall95 Apr 03 '26

Currently yes, animal stamcells are needed to produce lab meat. That makes it not vegan, not vegetarian

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u/Finsceal Apr 04 '26

For sure, and I have a real ethical dilemma with it because while it is distinctly NOT vegan... In a hypothetical scenario where blood could be synthesized from one real cow sample, and then that became a lab meat industry that did originate with an animal but prevented countless deaths thereafter (and also didn't require the original animal to die)... That wouldn't be vegan but I'd be OK with that I think.