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Posted on 03/16/2022 12:41:42 PM PDT by mylife
Snack companies are always scrambling to figure out what the next hot flavor is, because The Market demands ever-changing options even though the perfection of sour cream and onion is right there. Chip and pretzel and puff makers experiment with making things pickle-y, or spicy, or putting spice on top of the other flavors, or making snacks taste like completely other meals, like pizza. But the latest trend isn’t a flavor at all. It’s a method, which in many ways leads to the absence of flavor, but which also is for many exactly the point. Get excited to buy burnt chips.
A few brands have made inroads into the overcooked market, to the thrill of anyone who explicitly scours a bag of potato chips to find the burnt bits at the bottom. Better Made may have started the trend with its “Rainbow” chips, which it first started mass-producing in 2005. The first potato chips, it says, used to look a lot more like Rainbow chips, but as potatoes with less sugar content became favored in chip production, the dark, caramelized color became rarer. “Better Made would collect the rejected dark chips and package them as ‘Rainbows’ but the supply was very limited and we were unable to meet the demand for them,” the company says in its product description. Eventually, it worked with farmers to develop a potato that would create a darker chip.
Herrs, Utz and Cape Cod have all introduced (or re-released) “dark” russet kettle chips Utz has also made “extra dark” pretzels, as has Unique. “We left our classic special sourdough pretzels to cook just a little bit longer for all our dark pretzel fans,”
Cheez-It introduced an “Extra Toasty” line of snacks “after years of fan requests.”
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sounds good
So we ran it through the oven twice.
now I demand chex mix with more woostersirsire sauce!
You mean Better Made from Detroit?
you’d love my pizza place, if she over cooks it it’s free
yup
You ain’t 313 are you? Belle Isle to 7 mile?
Oh I know and am just pointing out the issue. Personally I’m a smoker who eats lots of bacon indulge in plenty of other forbidden things myself, and think people can and should make their own decisions regarding risk.
no, down in Ohio
Man, if I was back in Ohio I’d be eating Mike Selles tater chips. That there is a good chip
snyders, wise, hanovers... all good.
I’ve deep fried them myself. Two things I did wrong-
1. Didn’t have a mandolin, had to cut them by hand. Took me forever.
2. Put too much salt on them.
Mermite crisps,are great. Kind of taste like slightly overcooked potatoes chip.
my bud in tx is from mi and used to get us better made
It means you can enjoy the chips with Mare Pete and getcha a sore bum.
My wife put herself through college working at Buckeye Chips. She smelled so good after a shift.
yipes!
Cone hither, my little Chipadee...
Not THAT rainbow.
You know the chip that you get out of a bag of Lays once in a great while that is fried darker than the rest?
Well, this is a whole bag of 'em. No, they're not burned, but they're made from a different variety of potato that has a higher sugar content so they get darker when they're fried.
They are yum!
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