Food reviewer Becca decided to put supermarkets against each other as she decided to try to find the best hash browns available in supermarkets, and one was a clear winner in both price and taste
Many would claim that hash browns are an important part in a traditional breakfast, as its crispy outside and fluffy inside makes a great addition to the meal. But where can you get the best ones?
This is what food reviewer Becca, better known as ‘BeccaTriesEverything’, tried to determine as she took to social media to put supermarket and branded hash browns against each other to crown one as the best. The 28-year-old published her video onto her TikTok account, where she has over 494,000 followers, to share her reviews and initial reaction of each hash brown.
“I’ve bought hash browns from every supermarket, so let’s try them and see what they taste like,” she said at the start of her video, before saying she’d just realised she’d forgotten Waitrose so she’d do the taste test without them.
Starting with the branded ones, Becca first tried a hash brown from McCain, but she wasn’t impressed.
“I like the crunch around the outside, reminds me of the same sort of flavour as McDonald’s hash brown,” she said. “The inside, I’m finding it really mushy. They seem to have dulled down the black pepper in this from when I did like a review a couple of years ago. God it was so strong.”
She gave them a score of six out of 10 before moving on to rostis from M&S, which were twice as expensive as they’d cost her £4 for a bag from the shop rather than £2 than the McCain ones had cost.
“I’ve tried a lot of rostis and a lot of hash browns, I’m not getting on with this,” she said. “It’s got like a fish cake consistency. It’s mashed potato essentially. It’s meant to be shredded, but it’s really lost it’s texture,” she added before scoring them a four out of 10.
Next up, she tried the £2.20 hash browns from Sainsburys, which she quickly named the worst ones so far due to the overwhelming taste of the greasy oil. This left them with a score of two and a half out of 10.
Tesco was next up, with the cheapest alternative so far with a pack of their own branded hash browns costing £1.90. In response to her first bite, Becca declared: “It’s a pretty good hash brown.”
Explaining that she was a fan of the consistency and the potato chunks in it, as well as the crunch outside. However, she argued that they’d be even better if they were slightly thinner. In total, Becca scored them seven and a half out of ten, making them the best ones so far.
She then moved on to Aldi’s Breakfast Hash Browns that came in a box of 10 for £1.99. Becca went on to say that while she like the crunch and the texture of the hash brown, she found the aftertaste a bit ‘weird’ that gave it a slight vinegar tang, which bumped its rating down to five out of 10.
As for Co-op’s hash browns, which she’d payed £2 for a bag for, she was quick to compare them to Sainsbury’s hash browns as they had a strong oil flavour, earning them a four and a half out of 10 as their score. Meanwhile, Iceland’s £2 hash browns had Becca saying it’s the kind of hash brown she’d like with a breakfast as it had the right flavour.
“It is a bit greasy. It’s greasier compared to some of the others and I’d like the potato in the centre to be a little bit more refined. But I am taking the price into consideration and I think these are the best so far,” she said, scoring them eight and a half out of 10.
Asda didn’t leave a strong first impression as the £2.02 hash brown was a lot limper than the others in the test. Becca also said they tasted a lot of onion and didn’t have a good crisp, which scored them four and a half out of ten. Meanwhile, Morrison’s £2 bag of hash browns were the first ones were Becca said she could actually taste the potato, saying that they tasted like they’d been freshly made.
“They got a little bit of a weird after taste, almost tastes burnt. I don’t think I’d go back for them,” she said before scoring them six out of 10.
“Then finally, one of the cheapest, it’s Lidl,” she said, holding up the £1.69 bag of hash browns. As she held one up, she stated that it was one of the palest ones out of the line up, however the taste soon made up for it.
“That reminds me of like a really good fluffy chip,” she said, before saying she didn’t have high hopes due to its colour. “It’s got a good crispiness. The potato flavour comes through, there’s salt which many of these are lacking.”
“They’re a nine out of 10,” she said, making it the best tasting and also the cheapest hash browns out of the taste test.