These £2.49 supermarket brand roast potatoes just beat Aunt Bessie’s as UK’s best

Forget the turkey oregon Brussels sprouts, everyone knows roast potatoes are the main lawsuit astatine immoderate Christmas dinner. 

But if you haven’t rather perfected the look for delicious crispy and fluffy spuds, don’t worry, supermarkets person got you covered. 

With the festive play conscionable astir the corner, Which? has unveiled the champion frozen supermarket spuds, pitting large brands McCain and Aunt Bessie against own-brand rivals. 

And, shockingly, 2 supermarkets’ roasties person beaten retired Aunt Bessie’s iconic potatoes successful a unsighted sensation test. 

Who came retired connected top, we perceive you ask?

Well, determination was a associated victor this year, and they travel from either extremity of the supermarket spectrum.

Aldi’s Specially Selected Beef Dripping Roast Potatoes and M&S Maris Piper Roast Potatoes were some praised arsenic ‘good-looking potatoes’ that ‘had a flavour that pleased astir of our testers’, according to Which?.

They each scored 74%, with testers praising some for their fluffy insides and crispy outsides. This is really the 2nd twelvemonth moving that Aldi has been successful the apical spot.

At conscionable £2.49 for 1kg, you unsurprisingly get the astir bang for your subordinate with Aldi, which is regularly named arsenic the UK’s cheapest supermarket, portion M&S’ offering is £3 for 800g.

Each murphy was rated by a sheet of 65 radical who judged them blindly based connected taste, texture, aroma and appearance, sharing with the user radical what they liked and disliked. 

Here’s the champion of the rest…

2. Aunt Bessie’s 

Aunt Bessie’s Duck Fat Roast Potatoes (£4.50 for 700g) scored 72%, but 80% loved the ‘appetising colour of these roast potatoes’. 

Which? said testers loved the crunchy extracurricular and bully consistency of the wrong the most, but the flavour was little enjoyable than the apical picks.

Nearly fractional liked it, but a 3rd said it was excessively anemic and 42% claimed that the insides were a spot connected the adust side. 

Unlike each the different potatoes tested that usage beef fat, Aunt Bessie’s uses duck fat. They’re besides the astir costly connected test.

3. Morrison’s, Sainsbury’s, & Tesco 

Tying for 3rd spot was Morrison’s Best Beef Fat Roast Potatoes (£2.75 for 800g),  Sainsbury’s Maris Piper Roast Potatoes with Beef Dripping (£2.95 for 1kg), and Tesco’s Finest Beef Dripping Roast Potatoes (£3 for 800g), each scoring 71%.

Two-thirds enjoyed the texture of the Morrison’s potatoes and a fractional recovered the crispy extracurricular conscionable right, according to Which?. A ‘crunchier bite’ and a ‘stronger flavour’ would’ve upped their score, however. 

Sainsbury’s, meantime were described arsenic ‘nice-looking potatoes with a mostly liked texture, wrong and out’. While a small nether fractional felt the flavour was right, 43% wanted a stronger taste. 

And Tesco potatoes were described arsenic ‘a bully all-rounder’. According to Which? much than fractional enjoyed the flavour and crispy outsides, and astir two-thirds liked the texture of the insides, but the flavour was recovered a small lacking by 38%.

4. Co-op & Waitrose 

Co-op Irresitable Beef Dripping Roast Potatoes (£3.40 for 750g) Waitrose Frozen Roast Potatoes successful Beef Fat (2.75 for 800g) came associated 5th successful the trial scoring 70%. 

Which? said 60% of their sheet rated the flavour of Co-op’s ‘good-looking’ spuds, portion a akin proportionality enjoyed the texture of the inside. Although 54% liked the crispy outsides, 38% felt they could bash with much of a crunch. 

Two-thirds of those who tried Waitrose spuds enjoyed the texture, but the extracurricular was little popular, with 45% wanting it to beryllium crispier and 38% having done with a stronger flavour.

5. Asda

Which? Describes Asda Extra Special Beef Dripping Roast Potatoes (£2.75 for 800g) arsenic ‘lacklustre compared with different potatoes connected test’. 

The spud scored 68% wide and portion the texture of the wrong was enjoyed by much than half, a akin proportionality recovered the outsides lacked crispiness, and astir fractional wanted a stronger flavour.

6. McCain 

McCain Triple Cooked Roasts (£3 for 700g) ranked past with 60% overall. ‘Unappetizingly airy looks and too-weak flavour dragged these potatoes down,’ according to Which?. 

More than fractional liked the archetypal crunch, but 43% said they weren’t crispy enough.

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