Marks & Spencer doing extreme anything feels like your accountant getting a tattoo. Unexpected, slightly thrilling, and you’re not sure they’ve fully committed to the lifestyle.
But Extreme Ridge Sizzling Steak suggests they have.
The ridges are genuinely extreme. Deep grooves, substantial thickness, structural integrity that budget brands can’t match. These are crisps that fight back when you bite them, providing the resistance and crunch that proper ridged crisps should deliver.
The sizzling steak flavour commits to its concept. There’s char. There’s meatiness. There’s something approaching the Maillard reaction in seasoning form, that caramelised quality that hot metal meeting beef produces. It’s not steak, obviously. But it’s a more convincing tribute than most meat crisps manage.
M&S quality shows in the details. The potato base is better than supermarket equivalents. The seasoning is layered rather than one-note. Someone with actual food knowledge developed this rather than just copying a competitor’s brief.
The M&S premium
You pay more for M&S crisps. Always have, always will. For Extreme Ridge Sizzling Steak, the premium buys genuine quality improvement over cheaper alternatives. The question is whether you’re buying crisps from M&S anyway, in which case these are among the best options available.
