What are chips? The well-known short and capacious name hides behind itself only fried potato slices. Almost everyone loves this delicacy. It goes well with beer and soft drinks. With a bag of chips it's nice to sit at a computer, TV and just in the company of friends. However, you must admit that paying 40, or even all 50 rubles, for a small packet of fried potatoes with spices is still expensive. After all, you can easily and simply make them at home. Just know how to cook. Chips at home are no worse than those sold in stores. I would even say much tastier. And most importantly - much more useful.
Pick up the packaging of any chips and read the composition. Impressive? Where, in fact, is the potato itself? The long list contains solid flavors that are supposedly identical to natural ones, flavor enhancers, emulsifiers, stabilizers and the like. Not only that, most chips are made from potato or corn flour. That is why some of them in jars are flat and the same in shape and size.
How to cook chips at home and will this process become tedious? In order to get as a result an amount of product equal to a large pack of ready-made crispy goodies, you need only an hour and a half time. But the result will exceed all expectations. In addition, it will cost you significantly cheaper. So, here is the easiest recipe for making chips.
Take pieces of 7 or 8 medium potatoes. Better choose varieties with a red peel. Such vegetables have a denser tuber structure and do not become loose when exposed to high temperatures. Rinse and clean. The hardest part about how to make chips is to cut them into very thin slices (no more than 2 millimeters). If you did everything correctly, then through the pieces the towel pattern should shine through, on which they should then be laid. Let the prepared potatoes dry.
Next, you should decide on the choice of dishes in which you will prepare chips. It is not necessary to use a deep frying pan with a non-stick, expensive coating (although this option is most optimal for our case). For cooking, an ordinary aluminum pan will do just fine. The main condition is the thick walls of the dishes.
You will need a lot of vegetable oil to cook potatoes in conditions similar to industrial. The main difference between home-made and purchased chips is that you will not use butter to fry a huge amount of vegetables. On an industrial scale, this rule is often neglected. After all, at a factory on such a scale, hardly anyone is thinking about how to make chips that are safe for humans. As a result, the product is saturated with carcinogens, which can cause negative changes and consequences in the body. It is noted that those people who often ate potato chips purchased are highly susceptible to cancers of the digestive tract.
So, pour oil on the bottom of the selected dishes so that its thickness is about a centimeter and a half. Now, I think that you will not have any special problems with how to cook chips at home. After all, it remains only to heat the oil to a temperature of 200 degrees and put the potatoes in a container. This must be done in 1 layer. Fry one side of the slices for 3 minutes, then turn over and sprinkle with salt and seasonings. As soon as the ends of the pieces begin to bend upward, and the potato itself has acquired a golden color, the product can be removed. Note that each new batch needs to be seasoned much less, since a little in the dish already contains everything you need.
After this, the chips need to be laid out on a plate pre-coated with paper towels. They absorb excess oil draining from the potatoes. Once the chips have cooled, they can be eaten.