M.F.K. Fisher’s Potato Chips Recipe (2024)

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M.F.K. Fisher’s Potato Chips Recipe? ›

FDA regulation

In 2017, Mrs. Fisher's was forced to make big changes in its traditional recipe when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a ban on partially hydrogenated oils. Since the ruling, Mrs. Fisher's has been adjusting their chip recipe and customers have noticed a difference.

FDA regulation

In 2017, Mrs. Fisher's was forced to make big changes in its traditional recipe when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a ban on partially hydrogenated oils. Since the ruling, Mrs. Fisher's has been adjusting their chip recipe and customers have noticed a difference.

Best Overall: Cape Cod Original

One of our tasters noted it was the “yummiest and most well-seasoned” of the bunch. While some other chips had excessive amounts of salt and oil that overwhelmed the potato flavor (we're looking at you, Lay's), Cape Cod is just salty and fried enough.

On oil, sunflower and sunseed are very efficient, and many people swear by using groundnut oil. But, if you're after flavour, cooking chips in beef tallow (rendered beef fat you can get from your butcher) gives you better flavour and colour – the choice is yours.

Waxy potatoes like red potatoes are low in starch but high in moisture. The high moisture content leads to soggy chips. So when you're thinking of making chips, go for the starchy potatoes!

The best chips have a certain potatoey-ness to them and taste of more than just oil and salt. A good potato chip should not have any overcooked/burnt flavor, and it needs to have enough (but not too much) salt. By rinsing the chips well, we can eliminate surface sugars that will brown too quickly, or even burn.

Lay's was America's favorite potato chip brand by a wide margin in 2021/2022. Lay's accounted for nearly 41 percent of the potato chip market. The next largest contenders were Ruffles and Pringles, with 18 and 13 percent share of the market, respectively.

A brewery in Sweden claims to have unveiled 'the most expensive chips in the world,' as each box of the potato chips costs $56 (around ₹3,800) and contains five chips. The St Erik's brewery produced a total of 100 boxes, all of which sold out.

It's all about starch

Soaking potatoes in water helps to remove starch, a glucose molecule, from the tubers. Starches are sugars that can create a gummy or sticky effect on your spuds when cooked ― they're also why your hands feel so gritty after you've peeled potatoes.

If you prefer a traditional flavor, you can use lard. Beef fat or lard produces a full-flavored chip and, if cooked properly, the chip will be crisp and brown on the outside and soft within. Chips cooked with vegetable oils do create a similar chip (and have less cholesterol) but have less flavor.

What oil does Lays chips use? ›

Potatoes, Vegetable Oil (Canola, Corn, Soybean, and/or Sunflower Oil), and Salt.

Baked chips are not as crispy as fried ones. They usually have fewer calories and lower fat content than the fried version. But additional ingredients like sugar, cornstarch and soy lecithin are added which are often genetically modified, having been shown to cause tumors and kidney and liver damage in lab rats.

When fats and oils are oxidized they become rancid and their smell and taste changes, which is why, they are flushed with nitrogen gas because nitrogen is an inert gas and prevents the oxidation of the food.

Once you try your own homemade potato chips, you will understand why the effort it totally worth it! There is something so special about them being slightly warm out of the oil instead of grabbing them from a bag you bought at the store! Making potato chips at home couldn't be easier!

But now for the first time in chip existence, something about this Kitchen Cooked process is different. "It's not a new recipe. It's just one of our ingredients, the shortening," says Blackhurst. Because of a new government regulation, companies have to get rid of all trans fat in food starting in June.

Stale or rancid oil, excessive salt, overcooking, burning, or the presence of spoiled or rotten potatoes can make potato chips taste bad.

By cutting potatoes in a crisscross fashion to get the crinkle effect (please don't question the messenger I am just giving you the science) it increases the surface area exposing a larger area in the cooking process. This allows more water vapor to escape and makes the product crisper and possibly tastier.

Karen's favorite chips are Herr's Salt & Vinegar and in a "Grief Counseling" subplot, she and Jim go on a mission to find her a bag of Herr's so she can continue to work, after the break room's vending machine is sold out.