Health grills: How we test health grills

With taste buds, sharp knives and stopwatches at the ready, we got to work putting popular health grills through their paces at our test labs to find the best and worst models.

Health grill cooking tests

Time, taste and texture are important when testing health grills

First we cooked peppers and aubergine slices, which are a real challenge of a health grill's ability, then tried grilling fillets of salmon and chicken.

We timed how long each grill took to warm up and cook the food properly, then tasted each portion to rate the food's appeal.

Taste, texture, smell, appearance and evenness all came under our beady eye.

Health grill usability tests

We rated how easy each grill is to use by going through the entire process of using it, from reading the instruction booklet to setting it up and and using the controls.

We also assessed how easy the models were to clean and pack away for storage in a kitchen cupboard.