The Serious Eats team pulled together nine brands of potato chips (everything from Lay’s to Wise to Kettle brand and more) you're likely to find in your local supermarket and methodically, empirically, scientifically! tasted its way through them all in a quest to identify the very best.
When’s the last time you chose your potato chips? The answer is: never! You don’t choose potato chips! Potato chips choose you. They come for you at some point around the first of your grandma’s annual Labor Day barbecues that you remember and then you’re drawn, moth to flame, to the same each time you find yourself in the chip aisle.It doesn’t have to be this way... The world of potato chips is vast and nuanced.
You unwittingly slap at a pile of napkins after chip four to clear that delicious afterthought of grease.Anyway! To level the playing field of ALL AVAILABLE CHIPS, we zeroed in on original flavor, non-ridged potato-only chips. No other veggies, no other flavors—just potatoes and just salt . If you end up liking this particular batch of nonsense, we will move on to other flavors and textures.
Our first heavy-weight contender! These chips, also kettle-cooked, didn’t melt after the first snap–they were substantial enough that you had to chew a little bit. They were appropriately salty, impressively crispy, and, again, pretty thick . Even still: This was thePotatoes, vegetable oil , sea saltDistinctly savory, these morsels!! Like, to the point that “They barely remind me of a potato?” Kelli wrote.
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