It was perfectly salted, and though it lacked snap (you have to remove the plastic casing before cooking), even after cooking for a few minutes in a cast-iron pan it had a smooth, hot-dog-like internal texture that’s difficult to accomplish with veggie dogs. It has a balanced garlicky, spicy flavor, with a light dose of paprika and a strong but not overpowering smokiness. It will appeal to some meat eaters looking to veg up their palates and vegetarians or vegans who can’t bear the taste of meat. Though this hot dog doesn’t taste exactly like a real beef or pork hot dog, it comes much closer than the other two hot dogs. I would love to roast it (or grill it, if I were blessed with a grill) alongside cauliflower and onions sprinkled with cumin, topping it with fresh parsley and a dollop of labneh. This is also a good choice for a wide variety of sausage needs. “Perfect, uniform, not overly processed, crispy as heck.” I found that it browned beautifully and tasted delicious in a bun, holding its own against a heap of toppings. “It’s unreal I can’t believe it’s not meat,” he said. While it was a little dryer than the Beyond brat, it didn’t affect how much Paul loved this sausage. Paul grilled one for 12 minutes, turning it occasionally, and roasted another, rotating halfway through a 16-minute cooking time. Impossible recommends grilling, pan-frying, or roasting these brats, so I elected to pan-fry, popping them in the pan with a little oil for 12 minutes. “This is the best veggie sausage of all of them,” he said, noting that if nobody told him what he was eating, he’d assume it was a pretty damn good chicken sausage, which is to say, maybe a bit lighter in flavor than a pork or beef brat but nevertheless juicy, complex, and overall delicious. It came down to my husband, an unofficial evaluator, to break the tie: He preferred the Impossible. We wanted to see if the plant-based meat greats, Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat, were able to match the taste and texture of a real meat brat more closely.īelow, read about which veggie dogs and bratwurst we loved-and which, well, aren’t quite ready for prime time.Ĭhoosing the best vegan sausage was very, very difficult because Paul and I loved both the Impossible and the Beyond bratwursts. In my experience before writing this article, vegan hot dogs often have an odd, unpleasant texture: too dense, spongy, and limp. They’re often fresh, with a coarser grind and thicker casing, and flavored with sage, nutmeg, and other spices. We opted to try bratwurst vegan sausages in addition to hot dogs because, while they differ somewhat from hot dogs, they’re served in a similar fashion, in a bun with mustard and sauerkraut.
“And it’s hysterical because, at 2 a.m., you’ll see a line around the corner for these vegan hot dogs.”
Plant-based dogs have come a long way in the past 10 years, according to Mark Thompson, a food blogger, YouTuber, and author of the book “Making Vegan Meat: The Plant-Based Food Science Cookbook.” “In Orlando, there’s a vegan hot dog cart, which is like the staple of drunken downtown Orlando,” he says.
We tried five vegetarian sausages-three hot dogs and two bratwursts-and while some were so delicious they even convinced my meat-loving husband of their excellence, others tasted more like the vegetarian hot dogs I remember from my youth.
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