Tough job this one… but thankfully, none of the supermarket steaks I tried were even approaching tough. I tried 13 sirloins ranging in price from £23.03/kg to £60.87/kg. Those I really enjoyed started around the £30/kg mark and are well worth the extra pennies.
I asked Richard Turner, co-founder of the butcher Turner & George, to tell me about the cut. Turner knows his meat. He’s one of the UK’s foremost meat experts and chefs and has been involved with some of the UK’s best steakhouses as well as bringing BBQ festival Meatopia to the UK.
He recommends cooking sirloin medium to medium rare. “But due to its leanness it’s one of the few cuts I’ll countenance cooking on the rarer side,” he says. What’s on the side? “Beef-dripping triple-cooked chips of course! And Malbec is the steak wine.”
“As its name suggests, sirloin is from the loin part of the middle of the animal, between the rump and forerib,” he explains. “The name itself comes from the Middle English surloine, which is derived from old French word surloigne. There’s some nonsense about a king loving it so much he knighted it, Sir Loin, but I think we can ignore that tale.”
I most often buy ribeye but am so impressed by the supermarket sirloins that I may be switching allegiance. Turner explains that sirloin is a better cut if you enjoy a rare steak, as I do, because it has less fat. He also suggests it has become better value as other cuts, including ribeye, have become more expensive.
As beef prices have gone up – the Office for National Statistics puts the rise at 52% between 2020 and 2025 – sirloin has turned out to be a good-value cut, though it is still an indulgence.
Many of the sirloins I try are dry-aged. “Dry-aging on the carcass tenderises meat and intensifies flavour by evaporation, to an extent,” says Turner. “Contrary to what many will tell you, it’s best kept to five or six weeks. After that, the funkier, slightly cheesy flavours start to appear which mask the true flavours of great beef”.
I cooked all the steaks in a pan, medium rare, to packet instructions. I enjoyed them all, but some have lower marks because there was a range in quality. What really stood out are the high-performing steaks in the middle of the price range, such as those from Co-op, Tesco Finest and Lidl Deluxe.
M&S Collection British Aberdeen Angus Gold Salt Dry-Aged Sirloin
£16.78/329g or £51/kg
Exceptionally tasty and tender, this 36-day aged sirloin really delivers, which you’d expect for the price. The cooking instructions direct a quick sear in a hot pan before moving to the oven, resulting in a delicious caramelised crust and melt-in-the-mouth pink insides. Each steak is fully traceable to both the farm and animal it came from. This is the only steak I try that recommends oven-cooking, which is the preferred method of many chefs.
5/5
Aldi Specially Selected 100% British Beef Wagyu Sirloin Steak; Sainsbury’s British or Irish 21 Day Matured Thick cut sirloin steak; M&S Collection British Aberdeen Angus Gold Salt Dry Aged Sirloin; Tesco Finest 30-Day Aged Two Sirloin SteaksWaitrose No. 1 30–day Dry-Aged Sirloin Steak
£14/230g or £60.87/kg
A stunning product. The flavour hits from a moment before it’s in my mouth, even: salty, umami, beefy and exquisitely tender. I want to keep on eating and eating, and eat more than is probably wise given the very many steaks I have to try. Great illustration of a cow and the different cuts on the box.
5/5
Daylesford Organic Grass-Fed Dry-Aged British Sirloin Steak
£9.20/230g or £40/kg from Ocado
A great-looking steak and not as expensive as I’d expect from Lady Bamford’s fancy farm Daylesford Organic. The flavour is wonderfully beefy, not in a blokey upfront way, rather it’s softly spoken and almost caramel-like. The texture is molten and delicious. The cashmere of sirloin, perhaps.
4.5/5
Waitrose Duchy Organic British Beef Sirloin Steak
£10.40/230g or £46/kg
A beautifully flavoursome sirloin that tastes sweet and grassy with a caramelly seared crust. The Duchy Organic range has award-winning welfare standards and sales contribute to the King’s Charitable Fund.
4.5/5
Co-op Irresistible British Aberdeen Angus Thick Cut Sirloin Steak
£11.00/300g or £36.67/kg
This one wins the beauty contest, coming out of the pan with a deep burnished outer and brilliant pink inside. It is also incredibly tasty and tender, with a lovely shoulder of fat. Cooking instructions are helpful, too, with varying times given for rare, medium or well-done steaks.
4/5
Waitrose No. 1 30–day Dry Aged Sirloin Steak; Morrison’s Market Street British Sirloin Steak; Waitrose Duchy Organic British Beef Sirloin SteakM&S 30-Day Aged British Sirloin
£7.75/227g or £34.10/kg
If you can’t stretch to the pricier M&S sirloin, this is a brilliant alternative. Taste-wise, it’s somewhat milder but still delicious, with impressive tenderness, too.
4/5
Aldi Specially Selected 100% British Beef Wagyu Sirloin Steak
£8.49/230g or £37.40/kg
A great example of British Wagyu, this sirloin has a rich flavour and it’s incredibly tender, too. It’s the only Wagyu I try, and is noticeably fattier than the others. As with the Lidl steak, the packaging gives brilliant cooking advice. I think this is a really smart way of helping shoppers feel confident they’ll do their purchase justice and not waste any money.
4/5
Tesco Finest 30-Day Aged Two Sirloin Steaks
£14.40/454g or £31.72/kg
Looks and tastes delicious with a strong umami crust and loads of beefy flavour. The texture is good, not quite melt-in-the-mouth but supple enough. I’m a fan. I often buy one steak to slice up and share given the price, but at £14.40 for two large steaks, these are definitely worth splashing out on, and a single steak is £6.50 with a Clubcard until 06 October.
3.5/5
Lidl Deluxe Dry-Aged Aberdeen Angus Sirloin Steak
£7.29/255g or £28.58/kg
I’m a big fan of the packaging on this Lidl steak. The plastic cover comes off easily and the cardboard box has step by step illustrations and instructions, which are really valuable when you want to treat a decent piece of meat well. The result is tender and flavourful; all in all a great product that I’d buy again, and one of the best value.
3.5/5
Co-op Irresistible British Aberdeen Angus Thick Cut Sirloin Steak; LIDL Deluxe Dry Aged Aberdeen Angus Sirloin Steak; ALDI Ashfields 21-day Matured British Sirloin Steak; M&S 30-Day Aged British SirloinOcado 21-Day Matured Two Beef Sirloin Steaks
£11.80/400g or £29.50/kg
This is a really fat steak and while the cooking instructions say 2-3 minutes for rare and 3-6 for medium, I give it 6 for medium-rare. It comes out of the pan with a lovely looking char and slices easily. The taste is there, rich and beefy, but the texture isn’t unfortunately.
3/5
Sainsbury’s British or Irish 21-Day Matured Thick Cut Sirloin Steak
£6/225g or £26.67/kg
This is a great-value steak. While it doesn’t look as appealing as most of the others when it comes out of the pan, it has a bit of colour and a nicely pink middle. Texture-wise, it isn’t as tender as I’d like and the fibres collapse into each other somewhat, but the flavour is impressive.
2.5/5
Morrison’s Market Street British Sirloin Steak
£7.35/227g or £32.38/kg
The taste isn’t there for me on this one, and while the meat isn’t exactly tough, the fibres do cling together and turn powdery, which can be a sign of overcooking but that’s not the case here.
2/5
Aldi Ashfields 21-day Matured British Sirloin Steak
£4.49/200g or £23.03/kg
As mentioned, I didn’t hate any of the steaks that I tried and this is by far the cheapest of the lot. This one sears nicely but is lacking in flavour overall and has turned powdery inside.
2/5
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