The perfect steak? Researchers create lab-grown meat with better taste and made-to-order marbling HAMILTON, Ontario — Usually when you go to a steakhouse, the waiter asks how you’d like your meat cooked. Researchers from McMaster University say they may soon be asking how you’d like your steak “tuned.” The team has developed a new form of lab-grown meat that they say has a more natural taste and texture than other alternative meats. Not only does their creation give more of that “real meat” experience, the study finds this new approach also allows the eater to have the exact amount of fat content and marbling they want in that particular cut of “meat.”