'Aldi's £30 kitchen gadget makes such nice food, I'll never buy McDonald's again'

Earlier this week, Aldi released a £30 kitchen SpecialBuy that promises to make a breakfast McMuffin that rivals McDonald's in a matter of minutes. A McDonald's sausage and egg McMuffin costs £3.79 on its own. In comparison, Aldi’s Breakfast Muffin Maker promises to recreate popular McDonald’s McMuffins at home for just 78p per serving.

In theory Aldi's £30 breakfast sandwich maker could save fast food fans a significant amount of money in the long-run. Aldi's Drew and Cole breakfast sandwich maker costs £29.99 - £10 cheaper than at Currys and Amazon .

The Drew and Cole breakfast sandwich maker is currently out of stock on the Aldi website, but became available in stores on May 7. So if you're in luck, you'll still be able to find one.

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But is it any good? Bethan Shufflebotham, a writer for some of the Manchester Evening News' regional sister brands and self-confessed McDonald's fan, gave the £30 Aldi gadget a go for herself to see if it really could recreate her favourite breakfast McMuffin at home. Here's what Bethan found after trying the Aldi gadget for herself:

Here’s everything I needed to make a DIY breakfast muffin from Aldi:

Village Bakery White Toasting Muffins (4 muffins) – 75p

Everyday Essentials Cheesy Singles (15 cheese slices) – 83p

Oakhurst Breakfast Pork Patties (6 pork patties) – £1.89

Merevale British Free Range Medium Eggs (6 eggs) – £1.29

To make my DIY McMuffin, I shallow fried my pork patties in a pan first to make sure they were properly cooked from frozen, before slicing my muffins, adding half to the lower part of the sandwich maker. To the muffin I added a cheese slice, on top