Thursday, March 3, 2011

Potato Chip FAIL

I think I was slightly over-confident when approaching this whole homemade potato chip making process. They did not turn out the way I anticipated…at all! I bought 2 lovely organic potatoes from Whole Foods yesterday. I had some ideas for flavors; rosemary-garlic flavor and sea salt and vinegar with black pepper.

Mistake number 1: I do not have a mandoline. I thought I could use my big hand-held veggie slicer. I tried, but I only got inconsistent chunks of potatoes. FAIL. So I had to slice by hand. I admit I’m a pretty good slicer but it’s so hard to slice them evenly and thin. They were all slightly different thicknesses so they all finished baking at different times.

Mistake number 2: I put too much vinegar and not enough oil on the vinegar/black pepper chips. They all suck to the baking sheet. I could barely scrape them off. FAIL.

Chip FAIL
Mistake number 3: I put way too much salt on the chips. I gagged when I ate one. FAIL. So to say the least I learned a lot from this. I think making baked potato chips could be really easy. I now know (well I think I know) the proper seasonings to use, I just need to get a mandoline.

Stay tuned for more potato chips posts. I will get this right one day!

Salty, but yummy

6 comments:

  1. Good on you for trying. I'm too chicken to try chip...Better luck next time. Let us know!

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  2. cut your potatoes into small chunks ( and I mean smallish) boil them for a few minutes then toss them in oil and over bake with a little paprika.....

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  3. You know, they still look pretty tasty!!

    I've often thought of buying a mandoline. Do you think you might get one?

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  4. John - Thanks! That sounds yummy.

    Natalie - They actually were tasty. Especially the rosemary-garlic ones. If I have time, I'm gonna take a look at mandolines this weekend!

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  5. If you buy one, I wanna see pics on the blog! :)

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  6. Yes! I'm getting one this weekend for sure. And I'll be trying more potato chip recipes! :)

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