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A potato chip (NAmE and AuE; often just chip) or crisp (BrE and IrE) is a thin slice of potato (or a thin deposit of potato paste) that has been deep fried, baked, or air fried until crunchy. They are commonly served as a snack , side dish , or appetizer .
In the early days, potato chips were distributed in bulk from barrels or glass display cases, [8] or tins, which left chips at the bottom stale and crumbled. [9] Laura Scudder started having her workers to take home sheets of wax paper and iron them into the form of bags, which were filled with chips at her factory the next day.
The origin of the crisp (also known as potato chip) is attributed to Kitchiner, with The Cook's Oracle including the earliest known recipe. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Unlike most food writers of the time he cooked the food himself, washed up afterwards, and performed all the household tasks he wrote about.
The US Food and Drug Administration weighed in on the matter, and in 1975 they ruled Pringles could only use the word "chip" in their product name within the phrase: "potato chips made from dried potatoes". [16] Faced with such a lengthy and unpalatable appellation, Pringles eventually renamed their product potato "crisps", instead of chips.
Wise Foods was founded in 1921 in Berwick, Pennsylvania by Earl Wise and was initially called the 'Wise Potato Chip Company. [2] Wise owned Wise Delicatessen and began making potato chips as a way to make use of excess potatoes, [2] initially cooking them in his mother's kitchen, [2] and then selling them to customers in brown paper bags.
The chips go into the oven for a few minutes (Nicolle says 5 to 8 minutes) so the cheese can melt. When they emerge from the oven, top them with dollops of fig jam and some fresh thyme leaves.
The humble potato is serious business for the 74-year-old snack maker. The Tokyo-based firm uses hundreds of thousands of tons of the vegetable annually to make chips in a variety of flavors, from ...
The company was founded by Cameron Healy in 1978 as the "N.S. Khalsa Company"; it produced its first potato chips in 1982. [4]In 1988, following a motorcycle trip taken by the company's founder and his son, Kettle Foods established a UK branch in a converted shoe factory in Norwich, Norfolk, England; the branch moved five years later to its current UK home, a newly built factory on the ...