Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board
Simply Beef & Lamb — How to guides: grilling lamb
What this source is
- Authority
- Industry technical body
- Territories
- GB
- Primacy
- primary
- Commercial interest
- none
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-13
- State
- Read and citable
Lamb steaks at 4–6 minutes a side for 2 cm and 6–8 for thicker, chops and cutlets at 6–8 a side, burgers at 4–6. Same publisher as the beef guide, so the two collapse to one voice for independence purposes even though they cover different species — which is the correct behaviour and is worth stating, because two pages on one site feel like corroboration and are not.
What it may be cited for
Culinary practice, Technical, Terminology
- Explicitly not safety: As above: a levy board is not a food-safety authority.
What we recorded from it
AHDB gives 4 to 6 minutes per side for a 2 cm lamb steak from the leg, chump, shoulder or loin.
- Stated for a grill or a barbecue, without distinguishing between them.
- Where it applies:
- United Kingdom. AHDB is the British levy board.
- How it was measured:
- Times are per side, so a total is double unless the cut is turned more than once.
- Thickness:
- 2 cm.
- Leg, chump, shoulder or loin steaks.
AHDB gives 6 to 8 minutes per side for a lamb steak thicker than 2 cm.
- Stated for a grill or a barbecue, without distinguishing between them.
- Where it applies:
- United Kingdom. AHDB is the British levy board.
- How it was measured:
- Times are per side, so a total is double unless the cut is turned more than once.
- Thickness:
- More than 2 cm; no upper bound stated.
AHDB gives 6 to 8 minutes per side for 2 cm lamb loin or chump chops and cutlets.
- Stated for a grill or a barbecue, without distinguishing between them.
- Where it applies:
- United Kingdom. AHDB is the British levy board.
- How it was measured:
- Times are per side, so a total is double unless the cut is turned more than once.
- Thickness:
- 2 cm.
- Loin and chump chops, cutlets.
AHDB gives 4 to 6 minutes per side for a lamb burger 1 to 2 cm thick.
- Stated for a grill or a barbecue, without distinguishing between them.
- Where it applies:
- United Kingdom. AHDB is the British levy board.
- How it was measured:
- Times are per side, so a total is double unless the cut is turned more than once.
- Thickness:
- 1 to 2 cm.