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The Good Food tinned tomato soup taste test: From thick clots to the red-hot top

The brief: test affordable supermarket tinned tomato soups to see which ones are worth stocking the pantry with over winter. The result? Read on.

  • Bianca Hrovat
Wagon Wheels v Cart Wheels.

Wagon Wheel v Cart Wheel taste test: Are Aldi’s copycats even better than the real thing?

Similar names, similar packaging, but up to half the price. Good Food blind taste-tests popular chocolates against their imitators, with some surprising results.

  • Callan Boys
Diners try the line-up of Coravin wines at Bentley Restaurant & Bar.

Try one of the world’s best wines for half price. But is it really worth $320 a glass?

Good Food puts rare and revered wines to the taste test during the Coravin World Wine Tour.

  • Bianca Hrovat
Good Food’s Callan Boys and Bianca Hrovat taste test crossover snack foods.

Doughnut Twisties and Chupa Chups custard: Do any of these crazy collabs actually taste any good?

‘Look, they’re right out of control.’ Supermarket aisles keep filling with edible mash-ups between major brands – but do any of them actually taste good?

  • Bianca Hrovat and Callan Boys
Arnott’s Pizza Shapes hot cross buns.

We taste-tested novelty hot cross buns so you don’t have to (and Pizza Shapes weren’t even the worst)

Supermarkets have unleashed their latest range of hybrid hot cross buns, with mixed results. So which ones win and which should go straight to the bargain bin?

  • Bianca Hrovat
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Camberbert cheese

Supermarket brie tasted and rated: From the dreamy and creamy to the ‘deeply unsettling’

Is it possible to find a dreamy slab of delicious soft Aussie-made cheese for $5 or less from a supermarket? You better brie-lieve it.

  • Bianca Hrovat
Good Food’s Christmas Hams of the Year, 2023.

Tasted and ranked: The Good Food guide to supermarket Christmas hams

From wet flops to showstoppers, which leg hams make it onto Santa’s “nice” list after our blind taste-test?

  • Bianca Hrovat
Which party pie wins the prize?

Taste test: Which popular party pie is the best grand final half-time snack?

We ate all the supermarket party pies so that you don’t have to, just in time for pastry-based footy finals festivities.

  • Bianca Hrovat
Fresh tortellini pasta

Restaurant quality or flop? Fresh, fancy supermarket pastas ranked from the sloppy to the top

Have you noticed an explosion of fresh packet pastas in the supermarket recently? Good Food tastes and rates them for flavour and value, with mixed results.

  • Bianca Hrovat
Which supermarket chicken rules the roost?

Battle of the bachelor’s handbags: Six supermarket roast chickens put to the taste test

Coles, Woolworths or Costco: which cooked chook rules the roost?

  • Bianca Hrovat