Al Roker recently published an article from the today Show about how to make your own McRib. In this article, he starts off with “You can ditch the McRib locator and stop asking “When is the McRib back?” with Al Roker’s DIY McRib”. Ouch Mr. Roker, you don’t hear us talking about ditching the national news meteorologist to instead utilize the weather rock. Dig aside, in the video he does a quick showing of how one could make the McRib at home. The video certainly makes this look easy enough, and his use of Pork shoulder does a good job of mimmicing how the patty is made.

What do you think, are you ready to dive in an try your own or will you stick to the real thing?

Earlier this month Vox reported on a program at the Natick Soldier Center for Research and Development responsible for making food products for feeding troops in combat situations. As part of the research, the team was tasked with coming up with a less expensive steak option. As part of this research, they devised technology to restructure meat products to look more steak like for the soldiers. As is typical of innovations here, it appears the technology found commercial application and the McRib was a later product.

The full story can be read here: The McRib industrial complex: how the Army made the world’s weirdest meat