Loetje comes with plant-based steak

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Big news from steak restaurant Loetje. Starting today, there is a plant-based steak on the menu: Loetje's Steak Bali 0.0. And just like all steaks from Loetje, the Steak Bali 0.0 is served with the famous sambal sauce and white bread.

This fake meat actually comes from the printer. Yes, you read that right: meat 2.0: a steak from the printer. The Israeli company Redefine Meat has spent endless time diving into the deepest details of meat and understanding the interactions that take place.

Layers of fake muscle, fake fat, and fake blood
Based on that, fake meat is now being built layer by layer using state-of-the-art printers from soy, chickpeas, and flavorings. Thus, a steak, T-bone or a ribeye is recreated piece by piece until it is indistinguishable from real.

Recently, I tasted the ‘Lamb’ Wellington and Redefine Beef with pan de cristal at Ron’s Gastrobar in Amsterdam. And I must say: I was overwhelmed by the texture and the cooking level (the doneness seemed exactly like real meat). It has the bite of meat, the juiciness of meat, and bizarrely: it is even bloody.

Meat juices
Not only the taste, but also the texture and mouthfeel of the new Loetje Steak Bali 0.0 are of high quality. It sizzles in the pan, ‘meat juices’ run out, and it is caramelized on the outside and pink on the inside. It smells and tastes like steak and combines perfectly with the famous sambal sauce.

Throughout the Netherlands
Loetje's Steak Bali 0.0 costs €26.50 and is available at locations in Amsterdam (Zuidas), Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, Nijmegen, Rotterdam (city center), and Eindhoven. It is expected that the new dish will be on the menu across the Netherlands by the end of this year.