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Eating vegan doesn’t mean missing out on the flavour, texture and diversity of food that meat eaters love. Armed with this book, you’ll discover how to create the perfect plant-based meats – sure to sate the most dedicated carnivore.

From soybeans to seitan, konjaku to mushrooms, there is little that can’t be achieved using plant-based ingredients, and the Vegan Butcher – aka Zacchary Bird – is here to show you how.

Learn how to create meaty textures through the power of freezing tofu, transform a bag of flour into chewy seitan that will trick even the most diehard chicken fans, or play mad scientist with methylcellulose to make the perfect plant-based burgers. With step-by-step visual guides and more than 130 killer recipes, The Vegan Butcher will completely change the way you think about vegan food.

Apologies to those OzBargainers who are triggered by cookbooks. :)

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  • +13

    The Vegan Butcher

    Is this the sequel to "The Vegetable Killer" ?

  • +35

    I tried to go vegan. It made me realise I love meat. It was a big missed steak.

    • It was a big missed steak.

      I saw that big missed steak and ate it on your behalf.

      • Username checks out. :)

        • +1

          Oh yeah, forgot to mention it was a pork steak.

    • +1

      Did you say Steak? - Fluisa 1999

      • +1

        Oof you really butchered the timing on that

    • -1

      I have a vegan friend who's always trying to convert me. I told her I don't think I could give up meat, but I'd be willing to meet her halfway and eat my vegetables with a side of bacon!

  • +10

    Came for the comments…..

  • +2

    Too busy to read even free books from my virtual library collection.

    • +10

      Spamming Airjo posts with pro ALDI coffee rhetoric doesn't count as being "busy", FYI.

        • +4

          If you spray your arse with Mortein it might get rid of the bug that appears to be permanently stuck up there.

    • +1

      You've got to be more deliberate when adding books to your collection even if they're free.

      I recently cleaned my Amazon library - quite the nightmare.

      • I recently cleaned my Amazon library

        … but why??

        • +8

          Clutter is clutter - physical or otherwise.

  • +10

    If you like vegetables why make them taste and look like meat? Seems like a waste of time and money.

    • -5

      Free? lol maybe all that meat is doing something to your reading comprehension.

      • What's free?

        • +4

          Originally the comment said something like "no wonder it's free"

      • +1

        Yes because you made such an insightful comment.

      • +15

        ^ Imagine living obsessed like this.

        • Imagine calling a vegan cook book "butchery" to go our of your way to trigger people on purpose.

          • +4

            @Stivo: Imagine being sad all the time, making no jokes, references, get on at even the most banal juxtaposition.

            (Please, let's keep it going!)

      • -1
    • +36

      Because maybe you also like the taste of meat, just not where it comes from?

    • +31

      Lots of vegans still like meat, but just have questions on the ethics and sustainability of the industry, or sometimes peoples dietary requirements change for medical reasons? Isn't it great that there are plenty of options out there? Not everything is for you

      • yeah, but most people LOVE meat, and still like vegetables

    • Exactly what I was thinking!

    • +1

      I like my meat looking and tasting like real meat, that why I grind it up, mix it with spices, shape it like a carrot, stick in a wheat bun, cover it in onion and sauerkraut, drown it in tomato sauce, and add a dash of mustard.

      Mmmmm, pigs arse

      • -2

        Sounds disgusting, I’d rather have a sausage; at least I know it’s full of mystery meat.

        • +5

          they literally just described a sausage.

      • Sounds like a tasty recipe. But do you go around calling it fake vegetarian food? I mean its processed to all hell and has plenty of veggies mixed in.

        • +2

          No, vegetarians don't have a sook about what processed food is called…

          It tends to be meat eaters who screech "you can't call it a hamburger if it doesn't have any ham in it!", completely oblivious to Hamburer meaning "a sandwich preparedin the style of Hamburg, Austria".

          Maybe they're scared they'll pick-up a sweet-potato and pumpkin patty and accidentally reach their 5-a-day.

          Funnily enough, meat eaters have been eating largely soy "meat pies" for decades without noticing:

          Filling (63%) [Water, No Added Hormone Australian Beef (40%), Thickener (1422), Textured Soy Protein, Seasoning (Maltodextrin, Salt, Natural Flavouring, Soy Sauce Powder Soy Sauce [Defatted (Soybean), Wheat, Salt, Water]

          But they haven't noticed because they don't read the packet. So it seems they don't really care what's in it, they're probably just scared of the world changing without them.

          • @besttraveltech: You just created a false identity for me and then argued against it. Clap Clap

            • -1

              @Stivo: Oh so you do know what a strawman is? So you're just ignoring @ihree?

              Anyway, I didn't create an identity for you. The only part that I attributed to was the "having a sook" part. The rest is my experience with others, which was made clear when I said "It tends to be …"

          • @besttraveltech: huh. never heard it was that way tbh

    • +5

      Because of the horrid way animals are treated?

      • You think the vegetable industry is good for animals?

        • +4

          Strawman.

          • -1

            @ihfree: Facts is facts.

            • +3

              @Stivo: Even if, irrelevant. Straw man remains a straw man.

        • Overall, the "vegetable industry" is much better for animals than the "animal slaughtering industry".

          Don't compare best-case animal slaughter with worst-case agriculture with a hypothetical scenario that is irrelevant 99% of the time…

        • +2

          'good' is a subjective term. Is the 'vegetable industry' better for animals than animal agriculture? Clearly yes.

      • +1

        you mean like in the wild.
        like in nature.

        a great documentary to see is the 'alligator's last meal'.

        spoiler: even the non meat eaters eat meat on occasions.
        posibly to supliment their diets.
        huh.. animals dont even want to be vegans.

  • +1

    Well its cheaper than toilet paper bulk packs. Is it soft enough to use though? If not its useless.

  • +22

    I'm not a vegan or vegetarian, but sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who doesn't get so upset about what other people eat.

    • -2

      I feel like I'm the only one who doesn't get so upset about what other people eat.

      Most meat eaters are like that. It is usually the Vegans that get upset.

      Seriously, how many meat eaters do you see protesting outside vegetable farms or vegetarian restaurants?

      • +14

        No they just do it in Ozbargain comments :-)

      • -1

        There is about a billion people in India who have been vegetarian since they were born. You wont see them upset about what other people eat. They keep following it quietly. Its ones who got onboard a week ago.

      • +5

        Seriously, how many meat eaters do you see protesting outside vegetable farms or vegetarian restaurants?

        Personally? I've never seen that. I do though see a flood of people complaining about how much vegans complain whenever something like this is mentioned anywhere on the internet.

        • +3

          I do though see a flood of people complaining about how much vegans complain whenever something like this is mentioned anywhere on the internet.

          True, but the number is miniscule compare to the number of Vegans complaining….

        • +7

          The amount of hate that any vegan-related deal gets on Ozbargain is quite bizarre. I've never seen any vegans jumping into the comments section on cheap meat/dairy deals.

          • +1

            @stingypants: Maybe if the meat/dairy deal where being called Fake Vegetarian food then they would?

      • +3

        As usual jv, you're on the money. This is so true. I keep on seeing these articles about the screaming tomatoes and it's just horrifying to think about the suffering they must endure to end up on a Vegetarian's plate.

        • just horrifying to think about the suffering they must endure

          Well I guess you don't care either way…

      • +2

        Really? I feel like vegans are the one getting stereotyped around here.

        • Really? I feel like vegans are the one getting stereotyped

          In this post, it appears meat eaters are being stereotyped

          • @jv: Beautiful argument, wonderful formatting. True to your reputation, JV.

            Never change please lol.

          • +1

            @jv: Because it's the meat eaters that are complaining that this book exists, as if it affected them or anyone negatively in any way.

            • @MrTweek:

              Because it's the meat eaters that are complaining that this book exists

              Like who ?

              • +1

                @jv: Some quotes from this thread:

                Seems like a waste of time and money.

                Well its cheaper than toilet paper bulk packs. Is it soft enough to use though? If not its useless.

                all of the marketing terms try to con gullible people into believing that shit they eat has the same taste & texture as animal products

                I appreciate vegans about as much as I appreciate cyclists or those squeezer geezers that harass you in shopping centres

                promotes the concept of having a fake meat chemical slurry as opposed to actual meat as if they're similarly good for you

                MMMMM fermented protein slime. Aerated and kneaded with the addition of thickeners and glutens. […]

                I'm not even bothering going through pages 2 & 3…

                • @MrTweek: That is only 3 people out of 400 who read this post.

                  That is 0.8%.

                  That does not really represent meat eaters.

                  • @jv: You yourself are having go at vegans, hypocrtically claiming "Vegans who can't mind their own business" while inserting yourself on a vegan thread.

                    You are the stereotype.

                    • -1

                      @besttraveltech:

                      You yourself are having go at vegans

                      No, only those individuals that can't mind their own business.

      • They probably could locate either…

      • +1

        What do meat eaters have to protest or take issue with, though?

        • +1

          What do meat eaters have to protest or take issue with, though?

          Vegans who can't mind their own business.

          • @jv: boom tish

          • @jv:

            Vegans who can't mind their own business.

            Read my initial comment.

      • +4

        Why did the vegan cross the road?

        To tell the people on the other side that they're a vegan

      • +1

        I’m vegan and I don’t give a shit what anyone else eats 😂

        • I don’t give a shit

          Try more fibre.

  • +1

    The Vegan Gardener

    • +6

      We should try making meat based plants.

      • Because they can. And it bothers you a lot.

        • Because they can what?

          • @Ham Dragon: sighs They can eg. deduce from provided context, which is the question they asked.

            • @pizzaguy: Egs aren't vegan though?

              • @Ham Dragon: No, they're not considered vegan by any definition. There's no strict definition, btw - it's a concept of not living off other sentient beings, so some people dispute consumption of honey or insects.

                Eggs defs not vegan as they always cause cruelty - even if you have your luxuriously living chooks in the backyard, young roosters have been filtered out and killed to select those hens for you.

                I'm not vegan, but I appreciate the movement.

                • @pizzaguy: I appreciate vegans about as much as I appreciate cyclists or those squeezer geezers that harass you in shopping centres.

                  • @Ham Dragon: Ironically, it's you who parades yelling how you despise what's not in line with thinking or taste, and not vegans bragging about being vegans.

                    Yee-haw, boy! :D

                    • @pizzaguy: What an odd thing to say. Are you feeling OK?

                      • @Ham Dragon: Yes, I'm fine and happy to fulfil your gaslighting needs as long as it keeps your folk safer.

                        You know what I'm saying or do we keep going?

                  • @Ham Dragon: focus bud.

                • @pizzaguy: ive got a doco for you. 'the aligators last meal'

              • @Ham Dragon: or avocados, or homey,… but…oysters are..

                boom tish

  • +2

    Eating vegan doesn’t mean missing out on the flavour, texture and diversity of food that meat eaters love.

    I love meat, but I don't like eating vegan. I am not a cannibal.

  • +2

    I like how the description completely ignores the concept of nutrients. And how it promotes the concept of having a fake meat chemical slurry as opposed to actual meat as if they're similarly good for you.

    • +22

      Yes, these fake meats use notoriously unhealthy ingredients like eggplants, jackfruit, soybeans, wheat and carrots. Maybe read the book before commenting on its content?

      • +1

        unhealthy ingredients like eggplants, jackfruit, soybeans, wheat and carrots.

        plus lots of unhealthy chemicals.

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