Which Potato Chips Did Our Tasting Panel Rate Highest?



Tasting expert Jack Bishop challenges Bridget to a tasting of potato chips.

Read the full potato chip taste test:

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  1. I'm glad Lays didn't win anything of this…Their chips are like eating a mouth full of grease and salt..I personally really like the Utz, kettle, and wise brands…much better quality and a lot easier to stomach.

  2. ATK's chip tasting should compare at least a dozen brands and varieties. Sampling only four (two from the same brand) is grossly inadequate. A better tasting would try to winnow it down by categories: best traditional, best kettle, best of each of those in low sodium & low fat; also, best vinegar, best BBQ, etc.

  3. I'm from Michigan and I like better made potato chips light or dark and I remember years ago when I was a little girl that there was a brand of Chip from Michigan called New Era potato chips that got bought out by better made.

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    They know exactly what to add to their chemical crackers to keep you ticking, spending billions in research to figure out how to make you and your family resemble rats on cocaine. No wonder why their ground up corn, rice and sugar is flying off the shelves. When their not spending money brainwashing you and your kids into thinking there’s virtual bags of waist products should be part of your diet, they spend it on lobbying and lobbyists to prevent you from actually knowing what’s in the food they trained you to buy or pay researches to claim their products don’t cause childhood obesity.
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  5. With traditional potato chips, I only care that they're crispy, and have flavor. I have a preference towards crinkle cut, but will eat traditional cut too. They need to be at least lightly salted. For other flavors, barbecue. As for cheese flavor, the only brand I can find that is just cheese flavor, is Vitners. Lays and Jay's are cheddar and sour cream. I hate sour cream. I grew up on Jay's Potato Chips. Since they're now part of Snyder Lance, they don't taste the same.

    As for kettle cooked potato chips, no amount of salt will make them taste good. I find so far, only barbecue flavor gets me to eat kettle cooked. Lays and Jay's are so far the only 2 brands I'll eat kettle cooked potato chips, as long as they're barbecue flavor.

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