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Taste test

The 21 fishy contenders.

We taste-tested 21 cans of supermarket tuna in oil and Sirena didn’t win

Good Food tin-fluencer Frank Sweet scours the Seven Seas for Australia’s tastiest canned tuna. More than 20 cans, pouches and one stinky office later, here’s how they ranked.

  • Frank Sweet
 Frank Sweet is feeling the squeeze.

Aussies are suckers for yoghurt pouches. We put them to the taste test – with mixed results

Frank Sweet dons the blindfold in a puckering test of lactic endurance to find out which vanilla yoghurt pouches truly suck the most.

  • Frank Sweet
The class of 2026: Aussie supermarkets' Anzac biscuits edition.

Which are the best and worst supermarket Anzac biscuits? We taste-tested them all

We blind taste-tested eight Anzac biscuits and found more flunks than slam dunks. From the crunchy and dry to the gooey and chewy, here’s the way the cookies crumbled.

  • Frank Sweet
Hot chips

We ranked 37 of Sydney’s takeaway hot chips to find the city’s best

From vintage suburban classics dating back to 1971, to the hatted and the hyped, we disregarded our cholesterol in our comprehensive search for deep-fried potato perfection.

  • Good Food team
Good Food tried hot chips from 32 Melbourne venues.

Good Food ranked Melbourne’s best hot chips, and a surprise westside fish and chipper took top spot

From Mount Waverley to Maidstone, chicken shops to burger bars, we tasted 32 different hot chips. These 11 are the ones to know.

  • Good Food team
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Frank Sweet with the perfect chip.

From the bleachy to the bubbly: The ultimate plain-salted crisp taste test

In a quest to find the best, Frank Sweet blind taste-tested 17 plain-salted crisps. Which home-brand supermarket crisps knocked the posh ones off the podium?

  • Frank Sweet
Frank Sweet puts chocolate hot cross buns to the taste test.

‘Slimy undercarriage’: Supermarket choc hot cross buns ranked from worst to best

Not a fan of fruit and spice? Increasingly popular chocolate-filled HXB (plus one cheesy wildcard) bravely hop up to Good Food’s taste test plate.

  • Frank Sweet
The author hard at work.

18 fast-food chips tasted and ranked from worst to best

We taste-tested all the major franchises to find the best, but also found the worst, and discovered sog, salt, surprises and a winner that takes its chips very seriously.

  • Callan Boys
Which supermarket smoked salmon is best?

We put 13 supermarket smoked salmons to the taste test, and the cheapest was the best

Which ones are destined for the platter, and which did we spit into the bin?

  • Dani Valent
Feather and Bone co-owner Grant Hilliard at this Marrickville production facility.

They say happy pigs are tasty pigs. Good Food’s No.1-ranked ham proves that

An independent butcher beat out the supermarkets for this year’s best Christmas ham. Judges found it to be silky and with a delicate balance of smoke and seasoning.

  • Bianca Hrovat