Sirloin steaks
Abel & Cole
500g, £16,www.abel-cole.co.uk
This looks like a real steak - good marbling and solid. It gets a lovely colour when barbecued and it's slightly chewy, which I think a steak should be. Very, very good.
4 stars
Ginger Pig long-horn cattle
1 kg, £19.50, 020 7935 7788
It's an aged piece of meat, which I like. Slightly grainy on the tongue but full-flavoured. A solid piece of meat.
4 stars
Well Hung Meat
1kg, £29.99, www.wellhungmeat.com
Quite flabby-looking, but it goes very solid when cooked. It doesn't have great depth of flavour, but it's very tasty.
3 stars
Tesco finest
1kg, £16.98
It's from a young animal and it's curling at the edges when barbecued, which it shouldn't. It's dry and the only flavour comes from the barbie.
1 star
Ribs
Ginger Pig marinated pork
£4.50 a sheet, 020 7935 7788
Yum, it's lovely! A very nice bit of meat. Lovely pork flavour and a great spicy and smoky marinade.
5 stars
Donald Russell beef back 3x
700g, £18, www.donaldrussell.com
The meat is really nice and it cooks very well on the barbecue. It's got a good, deep flavour.
3 stars
Waitrose Southern style BBQ pork
600g, £2.99
I couldn't really taste the pork, only the marinade, which is too sweet. It's OK.
2 stars
Marks & Spencer
316g, £3.99
It's rubbery and tastes like it's been reformed. There is no bone either, which is quite strange.
No stars
Sausages
Donald Russell premium pork 6
x420g, £25, www.donaldrussell.com
Well spiced and very porky. It's a very decent sausage and it's good on the barbie as it doesn't burn.
4 stars
Waitrose free-range jumbo pork
500g, £2.99
Very pink, but good. Juicy and quite tasty.
2 stars
M&S extra meaty outdoor bred chipolatas
320g, £3.49
These taste of skin rather than sausage meat. Really sweet and the skin is weird.
1 star
Sainsbury's taste the difference with chilli and coriander
400g, £2.19
They taste more of garlic than anything else. They're too spicy on the tongue and a bit grainy.
1 star
Burgers
Well Hung Meat lamb
340g, £3.49, www.wellhungmeat.com
Thin, hard to handle so it could dry up, but it has good flavour of meat that's been hung.
4 stars
M&S Aberdeen Angus
454g, £3.19
It's very peppery and has a good flavour and texture. A little spicy, so not a burger for kids. Tasty though.
4 stars
Donald Russell grand gourmet
16x150g, £28, www.donaldrussell.com
It looks great, but shrinks right down when it's on the barbie to a small disc. It doesn't taste of much either.
1 star
Sainsbury's taste the difference venison
300g, £2.29
Too solid and needs more fat. Too rubbery, it's grey and the flavour isn't good.
No stars
Meat kebabs
Waitrose lamb koftas with green pepper
500g, £4.69
Good flavours and holds together well. Tastes of good minced meat and it's well spiced.
3 stars
M&S with halloumi and red peppers
520g, £7.99
Kebabs look and taste good, but they need different cooking times so don't really work on the barbecue. The ingredients are good quality.
3 stars
Tesco lamb kofta with mint raita
440g, £3.99
Looks like the first one (Waitrose), but tastes completely different. This is just processed meat that tastes like it's been spiced with a paste rather than real herbs.
1 star
Asda extra special Scotch beef and pepper kofte
260g, £1.98
Lots of pepper, which makes it overly sweet. Tastes watery and a little fermented.
No stars
Chicken
M&S red tikka thighs and drumsticks
1.08kg, £3.49
The thigh is nice and spicy and it smells good, too. It's a nice, solid piece of chicken, if a little spicy.
4 stars
Waitrose green Thai kebabs
330g, £4.69
The chicken is very soft and mushy. The classic green curry paste marinade is all right, but the texture is odd - a little bit like fish.
1 star
Asda BBQ British chicken thighs
875g, £2.96
It tastes of fake smoke and the skin is flabby despite cooking.
1 star
Tesco to cook red Thai chicken and lime skewer
360g, £3.99
Odd. The tomatoes and the onions taste fermented and that's the only flavour it's got.
No stars
Vegetarian option
Tesco vegetable roasting bag
300g, £3
It's a novel idea and it actually works. The vegetables taste good and they're nicely seasoned. But you could easily do this yourself.
4 stars
Asda stuffed mushroom
274g, £1.97
It doesn't look very appetising, but it's actually nice. The stuffing is good, the mushroom is juicy and it's well seasoned.
3 stars
Waitrose sweetcorn kebabs with chilli butter
4 halves, £1.99
It tastes like barbecued corn on the cob and that's all. I don't understand the point.
1 star
M&S edamame burgers
300g, £2.99
It sticks to the barbecue, is quite dry and mushy and the flavours are not all that great.
1 star
Seafood
Sainsbury's haddock fishcakes
180g, £1.19
A typical fishcake that works well on the barbecue.
4 stars
Bighams salmon and cherry tomato kebabs
300g, £4.49, available from Waitrose
Good herbs and the salmon tastes good but you could make them yourself.
3 stars
M&S prawn kebab
85g, £3.99
Very nice idea. They look very impressive and they taste fine. The herbs don't match the prawns but that doesn't really matter.
3 stars
Tesco finest BBQ salmon and prawn parcels
480g, £4
They look like they are going to be amazing, but the filling just tastes of fish and sesame seeds.
No stars
