Mikesell's Potato Chip Factory Tour [4K] - how delicious potato chips are made

How potato chips are made at the Mikesell's Snack Food Company factory in Dayton, Ohio. Learn how fresh potatoes get turned into delicious potato chips in this factory tour video.
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Potato farmers throughout America harvest fresh potatoes for Mikesell's, straight from the field.
A large semi trailer is filled with potatoes and driven to the Mikesell's headquarters, right here in Dayton, Ohio. Early in the morning the truck arrives at the factory and they sample the potatoes to inspect their quality.
If they pass inspection, the truck is backed in and lifted straight up in the air to unload the potatoes.
The potatoes either head off immediately to be processed, or are stored in crates until they are needed later in the day or week.
All potatoes go through a pool of water to rinse off any dirt or rocks left over from the harvest.
The potatoes are then spun around the inside of peelers which are coated with a rough surface. As they spin, this rough surface removes the potato skins.
Once peeled, they head to inspectors who check potato quality and size before going to the slicer.
In the slicer, potatoes are spun against rotating blades which cut them to an exact thickness and style.
After slicing, the potatoes are washed to remove starch and then air dried to remove excess water before heading to the fryer. At Mikesell's they try to use every part of the potato. Starch and other potato scraps throughout the process are stored and then later picked up by farmers for animal feed and by manufacturers to make paper.
The potato slices are sent into a batch of heated premium oil where they are cooked to a average temperature of 330 degrees. This gives their chips that distinctive crunch and taste.
Now these potato slices are officially delicious potato chips. But it's not over yet. They will still need to go through a seasoning tumbler. There, chips are sprinkled with one of Mikesell's distinctive and delicious flavors.
Several times throughout the day chips are pulled from the line and sent to an on-site quality assurance lab. There a technician measures moisture, chip integrity, and fat content to make sure that each batch of Mikesell's potato chips meets the exacting standards of the DW Guarantee.
The flavored chips are put into a store-veyor where they are automatically pulled as needed by the packaging machines. Chip bags are formed and placed under a funnel where the correct amount of chips are measured and then fall into them.
The filled bags head down a conveyor belt and pass over a scale. Any bag that is too heavy or too light is rejected by a blast of air to be recycled.
Most bags are already the correct weight, so they head to the automatic case packer. To help save the environment, Mikesell's reuses their cardboard shipping boxes for several trips before they are then recycled.
Once packed, the boxes head down a conveyor line to be inspected one last time. They are sent through an x-ray machine to detect any contaminants, therefore ensuring that every chip bag is clean.
Finally the shipping boxes head down another conveyor belt to the warehouse to be loaded onto a delivery truck.
Every week Mikesell's turns 240 thousand pounds of potatoes into delicious potato chips.
Once the delivery trucks are filled, they head out to your local grocery stores and restaurants where we get to enjoy them and make delicious memories together.
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Delay Rock Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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[@kevindonnelly27]

Your Potato chips are sooo good, don't ever change.

[@nwlgeminise3839]

This is great. I have always wondered where our snacks were made. It's good to know.

[@austinbecton5341]

Can't wait to move back to America! I miss Mikesell's!

[@randalllogan5806]

I miss Mike Sells chips and skins. Nothing in th world like them

[@PONGsLifeWithArts]

Wow looks so yummy.. I've never had a taste of mike's since i saw the logo... Never had here in Philippines... I think, buy anyways looks really good 😍 😍😋😋😋

[@rurikko]

My mother brought some home from robinsons supermarket, they're really good!

[@w1ndw4ker95]

Who else came here after the closure announcement today?

[@BobtheTraveler-WD8NVN]

Great Video !!

[@jasonhibbard3649]

Nice vid

[@jacobwarner5601]

Mike sells good n hot best chip ever

[@ArtStoneUS]

Their website is down. So maybe this didn't work out after all

[@blaknoizee]

And now Mikesells is gone. I dont know what to do to replace the taste of Good n Hot :(

[@JaredOLantern]

Not sure how I got here, but the first 40 seconds of this video is the cringiest thing ever.

[@Chamelionroses]

I will miss your chips better than Lays

[@karlaharrison2435]

Mike Sell need to make chicken chips! When I go to GA I have to go to a lot of gas station for Kim's chicken skins.

[@TheCampbell254bme]

Love the dude who just walks right onto the pile of potatoes lmfao so what do you do if he stepped in a giant pile of dog shit? I mean I know their deep fried and it kills germs but damn....

[@t.j.7789]

You'll die when you hear that a certain salad company washes your healthy salad in BLEACH!!!! YEP!!! Bleach! The skins are shaved off anyway.

[@jadingle]

Only Reason i'm Here is Because my Last name is Mikesell

[@coryrudy98]

You could have found some better actors for the first 40 seconds. Also, if you're going to put a kid in a video, make sure you clean his face off of the crusties first.

[@zebunker]

They forgot to add in where one bag costs more than 10lbs of potatoes or 50lb did buying bulk. They also forgot to mention low pay workers and slave wage farmers, Monsanto and the human condition. Also they forgot msg and cooked potatoes can cause cancer according to research. But what a video.

[@ckelley63]

You need to get a life!

[@MegaHugro]

Get back in mommies basement bunker Ze.

[@PRmoustache88]

But they have electrolytes.