Our friend Michela Dai Zovi wrote an awesome review of a burger made out of Buffalo Worms…
Currently, you can buy worm burgers in The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and Switzerland. At this moment worm burgers tend to be only in specialty supermarkets, but Ikea’s research hub Space10 is currently experimenting with making burgers—and even their famous meatballs—out of mealworms.
…I love eating bugs. I love that roasted mealworms have this smoky flavor, and a super delicate crunch. I love that silkworms have a double texture, first the outer skin like a light wrapper, and then juicy, meaty insides. I love crunching on chitinous crickets and grasshoppers, and in fact I didn’t start eating shrimp tails until I started eating bugs, and now the tail is my favorite part of the shrimp—the crunchy cherry on top! I don’t eat bugs to save the world, or reduce my carbon footprint, or increase my protein and other nutrition intake—though those are all valid reasons to eat insects. Honestly, I just like to eat bugs. They offer flavor and texture that is not available with any other food ingredient.
…I’d like to reduce my meat consumption without making my palate suffer, so If I lived in a place where Bugfoundation insect burgers were accessible I would buy them on a regular basis and use them to make meatballs for spaghetti, meatball subs, meatloaf, gyros, and occasionally as burgers, but only when I’m making a huge loaded burger. Because at the end of the day, most of the time when you eat a burger it’s not really about the beef but more about the sum of its parts—the cheese, the onions, the tomatoes, the mushrooms, the bacon, the avocado (this is sounding like a really amazing burger)…
Click here to read the full article “What Do Worm Burgers Taste Like?
An Honest Review of Bugfoundation Insect Burgers” by Michela Dai Zovi.
Michela Dai Zovi is the editor of the Bugs 4 Beginners Cookbook and is also one of our sponsors, but we would have posted this anyway 🙂
