3 Dutch Farmers Crisps - Hoekschechips

Have you ever seen crisps tulips? Have a look at the plastic bag on today's post. A simple and excellent eyewink to these potato crisps' origin: The Netherlands. We like the creativity and original packaging design, and not only for the tulips, keep on reading: 

Gerrik, Henk and René, the 3 Dutch farmers, started growing and cooking their own potatoes in 2004 from a Dutch national landscape named "The Hoeksche Waard", The Netherlands. And despite their relatively short experience, they are doing really well.

Selling for the international traveller under the name "3 Dutch farmers", local stores in Holland offer them as "Hoeksche Chips".

The transparent foil bag let's us see what we are buying. No catches, no tricks.  A good sunflower oil aroma is felt when opening the bag.

Crisps&Critics tasted these delicious crisps, personally hand-baked by Astrid (see her name printed on the package). Once washed and cut, the potatoes are cooked in pure sunflower oil with its own skin what probably gives a slight, yet pleasant, bitter taste.

An unanimous opinion at Crisps&Critics on the quantity of salt: a tiny pinch of sea salt that empowers an authentic potato flavour.

Features:
The biggest potato crisps is	8.5 cm long
and has a thickness of	1.50 mm
Crunchiness:	101 dB
Other features:	Nice packaging
Origin:
Country, region	The Netherlands, Zuid-Holland
We got them from	a Crisps&Critics reader in transit at Schiphol Airport (Amsterdam)
Price / gram	? € / 75 g
On-line:	http://www.3dutchfarmers.nl/

Inside a 3 Dutch Farmers Crisps bag

Nature chips - Spar Premium

These Nature chips of Spar Premium can be considered to be family relatives with the already reviewed Nature&Blue chips.  

As it happened with the "coloured" review, when we opened the bag, we smelt nothing. And this has an unadverted effect on the flavour. 

Flavour is not the same as taste. Flavour is understood as a combination of at least the following senses: taste, smell, touch... And if the smell is missing, the flavour feels weird. Is the lack of smell the price to pay for a low-fat product? 

These swiss potatoes have been baked underpressure, allowing frying at a lower temperature. The result: yellow pale colour potatoes with a hard crust. When chewing them we feel a good crunch and then have a dry sensation which some relate to a "healthy-food" feeling.  The slices are cut super thick, probably the thickest potato chips we have tasted so far.

Features:
The biggest potato crisps is	5.5 cm long
and has a thickness of	1.84 mm
Crunchiness:	101 dB
Other features:	Flat thick cut, pale yellow
Origin:
Country, region	Switzerland
We got them from	a Spar supermarket in Salzburg, Austria.
Price / gram	1.69 €/ 100 g
On-line	www.spar.at

Inside a Nature chips bag