Sam Colbert

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83 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 5 Jun

Sam Colbert’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Yoke a ball, it has that nice gummy, tacky stretch.

Like in bubble tea, right?

Yes, exactly.

So you put those together and you get that nice melt and stretch.

The problem is, as we saw with our pizza, it only melts kind of.

It tends to lock up.

It also isn't very flavorful.

Generally, the final product is pretty bland.

And to recreate artificially the great taste of a nice ripened cheese, that would just be prohibitively expensive.

And it also isn't very healthy, so it's high in saturated fat and has basically no protein, which you might expect in actual cheese.

When you say it would be prohibitively expensive, what's

Some flavors are very easy to replicate.

So the orange flavor in an orange soda is a pretty simple specific flavoring that is cheap to produce.

And in theory, any flavor can be replicated by just recreating the right combinations of molecules.

But cheese flavors are so distinct and varied that to recreate that combination of flavor molecules.

But

Yes, and uh a lot of Silicon Valley types have tried, and there was a real heyday for this kind of effort.

So five, ten years ago, there was a boom in plant-based foods.

Companies like Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods had these enormous valuations and celebrity backers lined up to invest in them.

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