ROBOT SCRUBS UP WELL

Grillbot grill cleaner, £114 (Amazon.co.uk)

AfTer the feast comes the pain of scrubbing burnt-on grease from the grill. This is the barbecue equivalent to the roomba floor-cleaning robot. eight inches wide, the circular device has three rotating wire brushes. But it only works on barbecues with lids you can close — it will fall off the edge of an open grill. i set it to work on my grime-encrusted grill for 20 minutes. The loud clattering as it zoomed up and down inside would put a dampener on a quiet chat. When the alarm went off the grill was clean, though it still needed a bit of manual labour to remove bits that had fallen down the middle. i then popped the robot’s brushes in the dish-washer for next time. not cheap, but certainly more fun than scrubbing the grill myself. 7/10