Beans work thus:
1) Branston: bloody lovely
2) Heinz: nice, sauce is thick and tasty, but lacks the zing of Branston beans
3) Supermarket own: generally acceptable, but you'll only be eating them to save money and won't really be enjoying them; sauce is thin, slightly sweet
4) Budget: utterly inedible, unless breaking your teeth doesn't upset you.; no sauce, just red water
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Sun 13 Nov 2011, 19:23, 1 reply)

Which report
Branston - 73% at 63p
Asda - 72% at 44p
Morrisons - 71% at 44p
Heinz - 70% at 64p
Morrisons value - 70% at 29p

Aldi Corale beans were due to rank #2 but they were changing their formulation soon after so Which disqualified them.

So unless you give a damn about 1-2% of a mark you can save 30% of the cost over a brand by shopping at Asda or Morrisons.

Point being people get very protective of Heinz but objectively they're nothing special scoring only the same as Morrison's value beans.
(MagicMoose, Sun 13 Nov 2011, 21:47, closed)

Why would Which? write a report on this?
White goods, IT, service providers, all fair enough, as I'm unlikely to want to buy one on the off chance that it might be OK. If I'm not in a position to splurge 63p on a can of beans, just to see what they're like, I'm not ever going to be buying them.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Sun 13 Nov 2011, 22:41, closed)

I have no idea
Which writes stuff like this to justify their existence. People pay to read their reports. My mum has an account so I went to look it up for this and the washing up liquid someone else mentioned. Personally I'd have no interest in subscribing but I suppose its been useful on this thread.
(MagicMoose, Mon 14 Nov 2011, 18:37, closed)