Top 8: The best top-end burgers for the barbecue this summer

"Wagyu beef is the current trend for luxury meat, including burgers. This breed of beef cattle originated in Japan (Wa – Japanese, gyu – beef/cattle) and was always highly valued and highly priced due to the limitations of land available in Japan."

There is little room for formality with a bun in your hand stuffed with juicy minced meat, leaking lettuce, opulent onion, melting mustard, and trickling tomato ketchup.

A barbecued burger can be an ideal summer party icebreaker. There is little room for formality with a bun in your hand stuffed with juicy minced meat, leaking lettuce, opulent onion, melting mustard, and trickling tomato ketchup.

Beefburgers should have an appetising savoury taste without added flavouring. The best burgers I ever made were from Kerry beef reared organically and free-range by a friend. It never needed seasoning.