Salted chips Original - LantChips

We found another jewel in the north of Europe. 

The eldest son of the Arnegård-Hansen family had special needs. They dreamed of change and of a life centered around their family. And they created LantChips together, after coming across a small company that sold home-made potato crisps in North America. 

Small chips of authentic potato flavor in a well packaged bag full of history and good reasons. In the front of the bag Mr Alströmer is depicted, not as a Roman hero in laurels, but as the pioneer of the potato culture in Sweden. In the rear some explanations as to why these crisps crunch and taste so delicious only using sunflower oil, salt and a natural production process.

Pretty thick, partly unpeeled and small chips crunch and echo in our mouths, while we cannot avoid our hand wanting to reach the next perfectly cut and salted chip to go the same way as the previous. 

Congratulations!

Features:
The biggest potato crisps is	6.2 cm long
and has a thickness of	1.39 mm *
Crunchiness:	82 dB
Other features:	Small potato slices, solid and thick.
Origin:
Country, region	Sweden
We got them from	a Swedish shop in Germany
Price / gram	1.99 € / 150 g
On-line:	www.lantchips.com

Inside a bag of Svenska LantChips

Xips de verdures - Ve de gust

Today we bring you potatoes of the sweet type. Together with extremely thin slices of yucca, beetroot and platain that complement eachother very well. All are cut flat and carefully fried in sunflower oil. The ensemble provides a crunchy symphony and subtle flavour mix in our palates. Sweet and salty never went along so well. The package transmits purity and luxury.

Features:
The biggest potato crisps is	4,2 cm long
and has a thickness of	? mm
Crunchiness:	95 dB
Other features:	Very thinly sliced sweet potatoes with yucca, beetroot and platain.
Origin:
Country, region	Spain, Catalonia
We got them from	a butcher in Mataró.
Price / gram	4,50 € / 130 g
On-line:	http://www.xipsvedegust.com

Inside a bag of Xips de Verdures of Ve de Gust.

Patatas fritas estilo Churrería - Frit Ravich

Estilo churrería -“frying stall” style - is the name the Frit Ravich's marketing department has chosen for these potato chips. At Crisps&Critics we have tried crisps whose flavour matched better such labeling.

Still, these chips are cut thin and translucent, with some interesting curls and many bubbles. They crunch very nicely in our mouth, feeling light and good. Really. Fried with enough sunflower oil and a bit over salted, we can only guess a well selected potato flavour.

Features:
The biggest potato crisps is	8,5 cm long
and has a thickness of	0,94 mm
Crunchiness:	103 dB
Other features:	Golden yellow colour, thin cut, bubbles...
Origin:
Country, region	Spain, Catalonia
We got them from	a Carrefour supermarket
Price / gram	1.10 € / 150 g
On-line	http://www.fritravich.com

Inside a Churreria Frit Ravich bag

Gourmet - Lay's

Who was first? The Lay's Gourmet potato chips packaging you see in this post looks very similar to Hacendado's Extracrujientes (to compare click on this link). And its taste does not differ that much. 

The Lay's Gourmet uses potatoes that once peeled are cut flat and thick. Then they have been unbelievably bent and slowly baked with sunflower oil.

The flavour is great, gentle and authentic, never too strong. Once in our mouth, crunching the impossible bents of each Lay's Gourmet chips gives and indescribable feel to our palate.

Features:
The biggest potato crisps is	7.1 cm long
and has a thickness of	1.12 mm
Crunchiness:	104 dB
Other features:	Flat cut, many bent chips.
Origin:
Country, region	Spain, Barcelona
We got them from	El Corte Inglés supermarket
Price / gram	1,99 € /180 g
On-line:	http://www.lays.es/productos/lays-gourmet

Inside a bag of Lay's Gourmet

Patatas Fritas Artesanas Papá Daniel - La Santamaría

Made with Spanish potatoes, these crisps are fried with sunflower oil on a pan. This frying method is probably the reason for such a crisps’ varieties of tonalities and shapes. Each chip is unique and all taste authentic. The brown paper bag gives a rustical impression to the product. Inside the paper bag we find two transparent plastic bags of 150g each. Once the bag is open the flavour transports us to a typical Spanish frying stall (“churrería”). Perfectly oiled and salted, these potatoes are a successful pick for any occasion.

Features:
The biggest potato crisps is	9.2 cm long
and has a thickness of	1.27 mm
Crunchiness:	103 dB
Other features:	Flat cut. Yellow colour with a huge gradient: from brown to pale yellow. Very diverse shapes and curls.
Origin:
Country, region	Spain, Pinto (Madrid)
We got them from	Käfer shop at Schrannenhalle, Munich (Germany)
Price / gram	3,40 € / 300 g (2x150g)
On-line:	http://www.productoslasantamaria.es/productos

Inside a bag of Papá Daniel chips

Da Vinci Chips - Pata Patatine

Named after the universal genius Leonardo Da Vinci these potato chips come in a package with his self-portrait. Leonardo Da Vinci was capable of creatively interconnect completely unrelated elements. Allegedly a vegetarian, we wonder if he would have liked to interconnect and taste sliced potatoes of South American origin, baked in Mediterranian olive oil and spiced with salt from Himalaya...

First, Pata Patatine cuts Italian potatoes to later fry them on a mix of olive oil (6%) and sunflower oil (17%). Finally the chips are salted with pink himalayan salt (1%). Himalayan salt is a type of rock salt, halite, from Pakistan. It has a a reddish or pink tone with some crystals having an off-white to transparent colour.

Many chips have bubbles and all of them have a hard crust. In our mouth, the crunch feeling multiplies beyond the measurement. Every small bit crunches again and again: No matter how small the bit is, it keeps its hardness and keeps crunching. The flavour is good, with a very soft olive oil scent.

Features:
The biggest potato crisps is	5.4 cm long
and has a thickness of	1.08 mm
Crunchiness:	94 dB
Other features:	Hard crust, pink salt, partially unpeeled potatoes.
Origin:
Country, region	Italy, Lombardy
We got them from	Bennet supermarket in Como.
Price / gram	2.45 € / 140 g
On-line:	http://www.pata.it

Inside a bag of "Da Vinci"

Sunland Farm - Kelly's

The first review from Austria goes to the Sunland Farm Naturally Salted Chips, from Kelly's. 

It passed our review with honours. We had to read again and again at the ingredients list behind the bag to confirm that the excellent potato flavour of these chips is really authentic: no added flavours. 

Each chip has consistency and is crunchy hard: is it due to the Saratoga Springs original recipe? First, unpeeled Austrian potatoes go on a salty bath. Afterwards the chips are cooked on sunflower oil. Of course, the salt comes also from the Austrian Alps.

Special mention to another very well packed product: the Kelly's Airpack keeps the chips fresh and unbroken. 

Features:
The biggest potato crisps is	7.5 cm long
and has a thickness of	1.14 mm
Crunchiness:	104 dB
Other features:	Unpeeled potatoes
Origin:
Country, region	Austria, Salzburg
We got them from	Spar supermarket
Price / gram	1.69 € / 100 g
On-line:	www.kellys.eu

Inside a Sunland Farm's bag

Boxerchips - Savagely Salted but not indecently so

Definitely a plus point for the Boxerchips: The original and patented cardboard packaging keeps all chips unbroken. Additionally the packaging can be used as a tray, very practical for sharing the snack with others. However, the cardboard’s smell mixes a bit with the crisps flavour, what can be weird for those that like us, at Crisps&Critics, open the potato bag and take a deep breath...

Boxerchips thickness and curl is very varied. We also find chips partly unpeeled. It gives the impression the potatoes have been manually processed.

Positively surprised, and contrary to expectations (packaging reading “Savagely Salted”), these crisps are just right salted with marine salt, allowing us to enjoy the great taste of these selected potatoes fried with sunflower oil.

Features:
The biggest potato crisps is	5 cm long
and has a thickness of	1.42 mm
Crunchiness:	104 dB
Other features:	Flat cut potatoes. Packaging is patented under: EP2358595
Origin:
country, region	UK, England
We got them from	Easyjet flight GWA - BCN
Price / gram	1,80 £ pounds / 40 grams
On-line:	http://www.boxerchips.com/pages/where-can-i-buy

Boxerchips open package

Patatas fritas Extra Crujientes - Hacendado

We would have never thought an own brand generalist supermarket crisps could taste that good. These potatoes have been fried on sunflower oil (28%) after being cut flat and thick. Such a thickness together to the huge proportion of bent, double and curled chips not only result in a quite high crunchiness score (106dB): the crunchiness perception at every bite multiplies in our mouth. 

The price/quality ratio is more than acceptable. The only thing we miss is a bit of a "frying stall" flavour to make these potatoes perfect. All in all, these crisps do really make honours to its label: "extra crujientes" (extra crunchy) and place clearly above average.

Features:
The biggest potato crisps is	7 cm long
and has a thickness of	1.10 mm
Crunchiness:	106 dB
Other features:	Flat cut, many bent chips.
Origin:
Country, region	Spain, Castilla y León
We got them from	Mercadona supermarket
Price / gram	1,55 € /180 g
On-line:	http://www.informacionmercadona.es/patatas-fritas-hacendado/

Inside a bag of "Patatas fritas extra crujientes Hacendado"