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How do you like your burgers grilled?
Hope you like it ‘classic’ grilled because that is how Pringles are doing it
I always get excited when I see a new burger flavoured chip or even a new burger flavoured dehydrated pressed potato snack – I am really interested in the different interpretations out there on how ‘burger flavour’ should taste.
I was legitimately surprised when I put one of these in my mouth – it actually tasted like a hamburger. Most of the other flavours I have tried tasted more like the sh1t that you put on burgers: ketchup or mustard or pickle or onion or a varying combination of preceding ingredients.
But no, this had none of that, maybe a hint of onion or ketchup, but this mostly tasted of grilled, minced beef – like a beef patty. I turned the pringle cylinder around and scanned the ingredients list to see a proudly displayed ‘vegetarian’ tick right up the top, and sure enough there is no beef listed in the ingredients at all!
There is however, yeast. Yeast is a single celled microorganism that we have classed as a fungus and sometimes when food scientists want to create a savoury or umami meaty flavour, instead of starting with oxo cubes beef stock which is totally what I would do, they reach for the yeast.
Inflation ever driving up the price of beef, it just doesn’t make good economic sense to extract all the flavour from perfectly good beef, put it on our potato chips or sh1tty 2 minute noodles and throw out the flavourless and now useless husks of meat.
Enter our hero, yeast. Cheaply produced, yeast is packed full of tasty glutamate that can be combined with other flavourings and sh1t like soy sauce, hydrolyzed protein and malt extract to produce a meaty, beefy flavour without putting a single steak to waste.
This tastes much more like a burger than any other burger chip I have tried, so much so that if you don’t like beef, I suggest you stay away. Ironically, I think I prefer the direction that other burger chips have taken by making it taste like common burger condiments.
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Feast on the Yeast – 6.5/10
Cut the sh1t:
What does Pringles Classic Grilled Burger taste like?
Pringles Classic Grilled Burger potato snacks taste very much like a burger – not just condiments- the meaty flavour of a beef pattie really comes through!
Is Pringles Classic Grilled Burger any good?
yes! In my opinion it is the closest to real beef burger flavour that I have ever tried in a chip.
Is Pringles Classic Grilled Burger Vegetarian?
Yes, Pringles Classic Grilled Burger is Vegetarian. – Despite tasting very much like a delicious meaty burger, it contains no meat products.
Where to buy Pringles Classic Grilled Burger:
It is limited edition so stock is running out as we speak. You might be able to find one in supermarkets, convenience stores, dairys and petrol stations.
