AUDIENCE: Polite smiles on faces when Bridget jokes about CHiP and Eric Estrada. ME: Not a single person in there under 30 understood the reference. And if you’re wondering why I spelled “CHiP” this way, then you didn’t get the reference either.
Ok I’m gonna start buying reduced fat potato chips from now on. Good to know and it makes perfect sense since you can’t make potato chips without oil and reducing the oil won’t do anything UPDATE: there’s only 4 supermarkets in my city that sell reduced fat utz kettle chips. i found them and they taste exactly the same as the regular utz kettle chips.
Nabor Sabor I agree. I still don't know why lays is in business. Pennsylvania is know for some of the best potato chips like Snyder of Berlin or Utz...
Utz Potato Chips are the absolute best. I live down the street from the factory. Nothing like going to the factory and buying a fresh bag of Utz Chips.
@@modus_operandi2508 just because something's been happening for a long time doesn't mean it's not weird. i don't mind it, but it doesn't really add anything.
The cape cod potato chips aren’t reliable. The flavor is so inconsistent. Sometimes they’re cooked properly, sometimes they’re too crispy, and sometimes they’re just too dry.
Tested Cape Cod vinegar, Cape Cod vinegar light,Lay's Kettle vinegar.. my choice is overwhelmingly the Lay's... second is Cape Cod light ,which has better flavor than their regular,which is the most tasteless .. it doesn't even have recognizable potato flavor...this is only the vinegar flavors I am referring to,...I don't bother with other flavors generally..
I know. How could they not include Better Made. Not because I was born and raised in michigan , not far from Detroit and still reside. I personally think they're the best and at 66 I've eaten a lot of different chips.
Its why Detroit was the #1 consumer of chips in the nation. I do not know if that is still the case but Yeah, Better Made!!! And Germack for pistachios.
I once ate a chip that had such a wonderfully potatoey flavor. I had tossed out the bag and forgot the brand. They had been on sale. I have been trying to find them ever since. It's the delicious potatoey flavor that made all the difference.
2:49 “The good news is you can eat 40% more potato chips.” Well, Bridget _can_ but the _better_ news is she can eat *66%* more potato chips if she’s looking to just about equal the fat content of the non-reduced fat variety.
I like the Kettle brand *because* they're so crunchy. I love my tater chips to fight back a bit. The delicate ones just make a mess in my mouth by collapsing too easily into mush.
@Kylem I'd love to try the brand but have never heard of it before. I once got hold of some obscure kosher specialty chips (NYC address and a Hebrew name is all I recall) for cheap at a discount store. They were quite tasty but I've never seen them again. The supermarkets seem to just carry brands owned by the mega food corporations plus their own store brands now where I live. I used to see Herr's at one place many years ago.
Great point. Same concept as the stock market. If the market drops value by half or 50%. You $100 is now worth $50. The market needs to rally 100% just to get you back to where you started. Though in her defense, she didn’t say 40% more of what type of chips. Maybe she meant she eats the same amount of low fat chips, but indulges on 40% of the regular chips. .......No? Ok, me neither.
I very seldom eat Potato Chips...but when I do, I LOVE to use Cottage Cheese as a Dip, and by far the Kettle Brand stands up to the scooping up of the Cottage Cheese. I grew up in a town that had a Laura Scudder's potato chip factory, EVERYBODY would roll down the car windows when you got close to the plant, the smell was AWESOME.
Always loved Lays but lately every chip is blemished/burned at the edges. Also a lot of the chips look like they were made with inferior potatoes with notable brown spots .Lays has lowered their quality . Check it out for yourself.
You are absolutely right! I have been seeing the same things as you, brown spots, burnt edges, etc. I was thinking the quality of the potatoes they used for the chips must be sub-par! I almost contacted the company regarding this!
From Michigan: Better Made Rainbow old fashioned Dark potato chips. I am a 80yo woman who remembers when chips came light and dark in one bag. I would pick out the dark. Now I can buy all dark in one bag. There is no other flavor for me.
Thank you for teaching me about these chips! I'm definitely going to buy them to try now. I read more about them and they sound unbelievably delicious 💗💗💗💗
@@sandrah7512 they're disorganized and the title of video should be kettle chips ... it was stupid to display both types , talk about both, then only taste one type in the video.
Cape Cod chips are by far the best of all. I am almost 60 and have been a big chip fan since my first crunch. On a camp out I was introduced to Cape Cod and fell in love with them. CAPE COD RULES THEM ALL!
The best chips ever made were Cape Cod "Robust Russet." All the chips were like the over-browned chips you may find in a regular bag of chips. They were so-o-o flavorful. For some reason, they are no longer available. A close second were Costco's Kirkland brand Tri-colored chips made from purp,le, red and regular potatoes which are also not longer available. No other chips come close to these, IMO. Sure wish they would come back on the market.
I had them, they were so good. Loads of potato flavor so you did not need to eat as many to curb your craving. They also sold a style with a very unique seasoning that you could almost call plain as it was not a like a BBQ or ranch. Renee you should try UTZs Chesapeake bay crab seasoning chips and their Carolina BBQ. Sadly they are not kettle but the taste is so regional it reminds you of a vacation at the beach. Jaholpano is my go-to, the only one I don't like it they type from Schlotkis? Scholotckis ?sandwich shop.
@@tony_mccourt You are very lucky to be able to buy them locally. I was glad to know that these chips have made a comeback, but no grocery retailer in my area sells any brand of dark russet chips. I checked out Amazon, but cannot afford to pay that much for a bag of chips. My next move is to ask my grocer to start stocking these chips. Customers here in Texas would really love them. Wish me luck!
YES! I do! So light-- man, it's been awhile since I picked up a bag of Munchos! Thanks for the reminder, I owe you one! And we need you on our chip review community! Come over and join us!
If you don't have real potatoes around and want mashed potatoes. Just take a bag of chips...hydrate them with milk and heat up the whole mash. Add sour cream...whatever.. You have mashed potatoes.
You didn't even talk about the Lay's potato chips on the table that was kind of off. Don't show the product if you're not going to talk it. Lay's are the best anyway
I have friends in California that buy Cape Cod chips all the time. You can definitely find them out by you! It’s worth it, Cape Cod makes the BEST chips.
Utz are my favorite. Any flavor will do..addictive..and totally worth it..just polished off their sweet and smokey flav..good to the last chippy crumb😀
The Utz brand is sold under the Boulder name here in California. I believe they have other regional brands - I've only seen the Utz name on the East Coast.
Okay I have to say, while I do love some of the brands shown here, if you have an Aldi near you, go buy a bag of their Clancy’s chips! They are one of the best tasting chips I’ve had lately, and they’re only 99 cents for an 8 oz bag!!!....Hurry, go get some 😋
We have some Utz chips available in Wisconsin, but I never heard of Herrs. One of the things that annoys me about Cook’s Country and America’s Test Kitchen is their penchant for Eastern brands that are not available elsewhere. And don’t tell me to order those brands online; I shop locally to support local businesses.
Growing up in York County, Pennsylvania, we were the snack food capital of the US if not the world. So my ability to let ATC judge fairly was impaired. The original mass marketed kettle chip is from a company called Martin's. But the two very best versions are cooked in lard. The first being Gibbles. Their tag line was/is nibble with Gibbles. So amazing. Maybe not quite as thick as modern kettle, but nice and crunchy. The UTZ company decided to cash in and create the Grandma Utz line. Also cooked in lard. Absolutely amazing. Most folks in the US probably have no local vendors for these two. Please seek them out and give 'em a try. And Martin's was so very beloved by President Clinton that he had them served on Air Force One. I think his fav was the ripple bbq. I can tell you, they are ok, but get the real kettle cook'd (as the lable says.)
my parents grew up in Hanover, Pennsylvania and I grew up in Lancaster county. We definitely know our chips. tbh I'm not big on Martin's. they're not bad, but they're not what I'd call "great." I was more into Utz and Herr's.
I buy their Unsalted chips and then lightly salt them myself with my "Real Salt" (looks like Himalayan Pink.) The problem is the severely unhealthy oils they're fried in.
mine too, but I don't have unsalted Lay's in my town, wish I did. When I lived in Baltimore, I was introduced to Utz and they had unsalted chips. I like the unsalted version of any thin potato chip but they are hard to find.
I love the chips that are folded over - I will scour thru the whole bag to get all the folded ones! I think they have more flavor (the oil gets trapped a bit and they aren't overly salted). Love them - don't matter which brand!! 😁❤💯
I agree with you! I open the bag before anyone else and I dig around for the folded ones, my absolute favorite! If you can't find many in a bag, put 2 chips together and crunch away.
I enjoy and appreciate Jack's taste tesrs. It is a reminder that we can agree to disagree. The comments help sort out flavor features that are very helpful for choosing brands.
You forgot Whole Foods 365 Everyday Value, Rippled Potato Chips. Probably the best chip I have found as I continue my lifelong search for the perfect chip. I know I am not alone. They are almost always sold out during corona virus times and I can always get the others.
Both Herr's and Utz are manufactured near my home in south central PA. When I was younger I preferred the thin crispy Herr's. They are however salty at 7% of recommended daily allowance for sodium. I now prefer a thicker chip and Utz makes the ones I prefer. They also have a lower sodium content. I must admit though that my favorite chip is made by a smaller local company, Good's (in the blue and white bag, there is another Good's in a red and white bag, the chip of my childhood) they fry their chips in lard which lends a whole additional flavor. They are so good. The way chips were originally made.
Some years ago, I moved from Illinois to Pittsburgh, and promptly gained ten pounds because I discovered UTZ potato chips, LOL Rite Aid had alllll the flavors, and I couldn't help picking up a bag on my way to work almost every day. I'm back in Illinois, now, where there are no UTZ chips, although we do have the pretzels. But I check the chip aisle, anyway, looking for UTZ, almost dreading that I will find them, because I know I will buy them, and eat them, and eat them, and eat them, LOL I lost 20 pounds after I left Pittsburgh, between the lack of UTZ and Primanti Bros.
@@OhJodi69 You may see them arrive before much longer. The Utz brand potato chip is I believe the official snack for the MLB. I know they recently invested in a smaller midwestern snack company but I've forgotten which one.
I absolutely love the Kettle chips, but after I got my wisdom teeth out it was a HARD PASS for several months, perhaps having almost shards of glass in the mouth would have been a bad idea, they are very crunchy
I prefer Middleswarth, Gibbles, and sometimes Martins over Utz. That's the advantage of living in Pennsylvania....the best chip in the country is 4th or 5th locally. Utz has had the business plan to grow their territory over the years where the others haven't
I have two questions... how much do you have to pay the mouth breathers to sit in a studio audience for an America’s Test Kitchen video... and how do you make a potato chip video with no Wavy Lays... or at least Ruffles??.
@@kareninalabama Sure. I'd feign surprise as though I'd never heard of this new invention "potato chip". What new kind of culinary wizardry is this? Are they available everywhere?
@@stevenreichertart I lived in Pittsburgh for a few years, where my almost daily diet consisted of UTZ chips........the Old Bay crab seasoned ones were my favorites! Now I'm back in Illinois, and there are NO UTZ chips, here!
Up in Western Canada, Old Dutch consistently better than Lay's. That's both for regular and kettle cooked. However, Lay's corn chips are consistently better than Old Dutch.
karmasafari yes. Immediately went to Amazon & ordered reduced fat Utz ~ a brand I’ve never seen or tried. Lays lightly salted was my buddy but since quarantined I’ve found deliveries they’re tasting greasy...really really greasy.
Where and when is this being filmed?! I’m curious because it’s not allowed here in Canada right now 😅 also I feel like the chips were very subjective compared to normal things this channel reviews. Like best cooking pots and knives and the like.
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.
Jack should have added some potato chips cooked in lard to the larger (and Bridget's) blind taste test. Grandma Utz 'Handcooked' Potato Chips (made by Utz) might be the only variety of potato chips (cooked in lard) that might be widely available. (Seeing some of Bridget's preferences in other shows, I'd think she'd like them.) Such potato chips are especially popular in southeast Pennsylvania. Some other lard cooked potato chip varieties: Dieffenbach's 'Old Fashion Kettle Chips', Gibble's 'Home Style' Potato Chips, Good's 'Original' and 'Home Style' Potato Chips, Kay and Ray's 'Regular Potato Chips' and 'Dark Potato Chips', Moyer's Potato Chips, Stehman's Homestyle Kettle Cooked Potato Chips and Zerbe's Kettle Cooked Potato Chips. If you have any interest in finding Moyer's, Stehmman's or Zerbe's potato chips, then search out 'Marmel Industries'. I was surprised to compare the nutritional content between several potato chips: Lay's Classic potato chips have these nutritional facts: Total Fat 10g, Saturated Fat 1.5g, Trans Fat 0g; while Grandma Utz has these: Total Fat 8g, Saturated Fat 3g, Trans Fat 0g, Polyunsaturated Fat 1g, Monounsaturated Fat 3.5g. One might think potato chips cooked in lard would leave a greasy feel in your mouth, but I've had chips cooked in hydrogenated soybean oil or palm oil that left more of a greasy feeling in your mouth (plus had 5g of saturated fat per serving).
If the content is 60% of the regular chips, then what portion of that 60% would be needed to reach 100%, the equivalent of the regular chip. The answer is simple proportional arithmetic: 100 - 60 = 40; then the 40 addtional/60 new chip = 2/3 or 66.7 %. In other words to get fro 60 to 100 you would need 2/3 more of the low fat chip. Hope that helps.
I wish kettle vs regular chips was the only issue that divided us.
if you get tree wishes from a lamp genius please make this wish
DEATH TO THOSE WHO INSULT KETTLE CHIPS
That would be nice.
I agree. Instead it's all BBQ vs Salt & Vinegar. Death to the BBQ lovers!
@@DLJeeves Are you the Kim Jong Un of chip eaters?
0:48 This guy is moved to tears by the description of chip frying technique
Right? Why did they cut to him??
Pretty sure he wanted to see Eric Estrada, if you know what I mean.
🤣😂🤣
It's a PBS product. The audience is mostly comprised of soy boys, and karens. Take a look at the 'hot sauce' episode. Hilarious.
@@HunterBidenCocaineBag Light in the loafers?
AUDIENCE: Polite smiles on faces when Bridget jokes about CHiP and Eric Estrada.
ME: Not a single person in there under 30 understood the reference.
And if you’re wondering why I spelled “CHiP” this way, then you didn’t get the reference either.
Keven HA!..... 😉 👍
Care to explain? Haha I'm highly curious now
My Queen. CHiPs, aka California Highway Patrol, is an old TV show about motorcycle cops starring Eric Estrada
Right! She said, "Eric Estrada." half of the audience, who?🤷♂️😣😄😄
Exactly!!! I noticed the same thing.
They left out my fav - Charles Chips! Delivered to you in a tin can since 1942!
The best !!
Loved Charles Chips! I remember the truck pulling up and delivering the tin. Regular and barbecue. Very special.
I worked at Charles Chips when they were still made at the original factory in Lancaster County, Pa. They were best hot out of the oil.
Ooh, that sounds really good! I want to try those.
You can find them in Cracker Barrel, but they’re in a bag.
Audience looking like they're about to hear the location of Atlantis
Omg @ K M thank you for the Atlantis comment!! I laughed out loud for real!!! Haha!
Me too! 🤣
That Erik Estrada joke was actually pretty good - but the audience is way too young. Amusing confused looks, however.
No it wasn’t. Unlike these chips that joke was corny.
Jack didn't get it..
That joke was whoosh!!! Forget commercial airline cruising altitude..it was more like 90,000 feet. Bummer that I got it immediately 🤣☺️😭😫
Change the joke to Larry Wilcox and you get the deer in the headlight look from 99.9% of the people.
I love Utz! More potato taste, less salt.
I've yet to see the lower fat variety...will have to look around for it.
your right im eating utz potato chips and very little salt more potato taste
@@Omrentonth999 yeah they don't use a whole lot of salt.
I've just always ate Utz since I was little. Seeing that Retro bag design is comforting.
Ok I’m gonna start buying reduced fat potato chips from now on. Good to know and it makes perfect sense since you can’t make potato chips without oil and reducing the oil won’t do anything
UPDATE: there’s only 4 supermarkets in my city that sell reduced fat utz kettle chips. i found them and they taste exactly the same as the regular utz kettle chips.
Moral of the story: It's hard to go wrong with potato chips.
Very true
It's even harder to go right with them healthwise!
@@7karlheinz Also true.
@Nabor Sabor Take it from a nut?
Nabor Sabor I agree. I still don't know why lays is in business. Pennsylvania is know for some of the best potato chips like Snyder of Berlin or Utz...
Utz Potato Chips are the absolute best. I live down the street from the factory. Nothing like going to the factory and buying a fresh bag of Utz Chips.
I live near the Cheerio plant here in Buffalo. The glorious smell of them baking overtakes the entire neighborhood. We should hang out LOL
I used to live within smelling distance of the Hershey chocolate factory.
@@judithmoore7892 lol love it
This live studio audience format is weird as hell
They been doing this for 20 years idiot !!!!
@@modus_operandi2508 During a pandemic?
Henry Firth - This taste test was conducted in August 2018.
@@modus_operandi2508 just because something's been happening for a long time doesn't mean it's not weird. i don't mind it, but it doesn't really add anything.
It feels like a bad late night infomercial...
Cape Cod chips - anytime
Sea salt vinegar Cape Cod is mine
Especially with an overpriced Maine lobster roll
The Dark Russet ones are the best if you can find them.
The cape cod potato chips aren’t reliable. The flavor is so inconsistent. Sometimes they’re cooked properly, sometimes they’re too crispy, and sometimes they’re just too dry.
Tested Cape Cod vinegar, Cape Cod vinegar light,Lay's Kettle vinegar.. my choice is overwhelmingly the Lay's... second is Cape Cod light ,which has better flavor than their regular,which is the most tasteless .. it doesn't even have recognizable potato flavor...this is only the vinegar flavors I am referring to,...I don't bother with other flavors generally..
Better Made chips from Michigan are awesome.
I drive by the Better Made factory every day on my way to work. This comparison made me sad they were not included.
Daiv,
Sitting here on the west coast dreaming of Better Made “Rainbow Dark” chips. Think I will go online and order one or two bags.
Pretty sure they are only sold regionally, if not locally so they're probably not available elsewhere
I know. How could they not include Better Made. Not because I was born and raised in michigan , not far from Detroit and still reside. I personally think they're the best and at 66 I've eaten a lot of different chips.
Ugh. The Eric Estrada comment made me feel so old but clearly lost on most of the audience.
Not this guy. But I can honestly say I never found Eric "tasty".
Miss Vicky’s kettle cooked are my favorite
The best!
Tim's Cascade style potato chips. Thick crunchy and better than any of those East coast chips.
THE best are "Better Made" outta Detroit! I have traveled the country, and found none better!
Their Dark are my favorite also
Its why Detroit was the #1 consumer of chips in the nation. I do not know if that is still the case but Yeah, Better Made!!! And Germack for pistachios.
You havent tried Tim’s of Washington state. Yukon gold potatoes, the best.
stop tormenting us! lol
I once ate a chip that had such a wonderfully potatoey flavor. I had tossed out the bag and forgot the brand. They had been on sale. I have been trying to find them ever since.
It's the delicious potatoey flavor that made all the difference.
2:49 “The good news is you can eat 40% more potato chips.”
Well, Bridget _can_ but the _better_ news is she can eat *66%* more potato chips if she’s looking to just about equal the fat content of the non-reduced fat variety.
Not sure anyone in the audience was old enough to know who Eric Estrada was......😂
I grew up in the 80s (and in LA , no less) so 8 definitely know the show. It’s disheartens me that some people have no idea what CHiPs is lol
Don't know what they're missing!
In the back row Wise potato chips, the classic.
The chips of NYC deli days of yore.
I miss those east coast Wise potato chips, sitting in the rack of those NY delis.
Life sure has gone into the crapper since those wonderful days.
They aint chip if there is no OWL on the Bag. I am 85 and am a WISE man
The chips of my childhood!
I like the Kettle brand *because* they're so crunchy. I love my tater chips to fight back a bit. The delicate ones just make a mess in my mouth by collapsing too easily into mush.
@Kylem I'd love to try the brand but have never heard of it before. I once got hold of some obscure kosher specialty chips (NYC address and a Hebrew name is all I recall) for cheap at a discount store. They were quite tasty but I've never seen them again.
The supermarkets seem to just carry brands owned by the mega food corporations plus their own store brands now where I live. I used to see Herr's at one place many years ago.
You ever had a knuckle sandwich
She could eat ~66% more. Example: 100 decreased by 40% = 60. 60 must be increased by ~66% to return to 100.
Math nerds unite! I was thinking that same thing, but you got here an hour before me.🙂
That's logical now that you describe it. Thank you!
Great point. Same concept as the stock market. If the market drops value by half or 50%. You $100 is now worth $50. The market needs to rally 100% just to get you back to where you started.
Though in her defense, she didn’t say 40% more of what type of chips. Maybe she meant she eats the same amount of low fat chips, but indulges on 40% of the regular chips.
.......No?
Ok, me neither.
Chris, don't worry, we won't short change you! LOL
she can eat as many as she wants 🧡🧡 i don’t believe in that
Omg, my freakin kryptonite. With a pint of sour cream, I can undo a month in the gym in a single sitting...do they put crack in the chips? 😐😉
You can find crack in the cheaper brands. The best brands use crystal meth 😁
@@wotan10950 No way! I get bigger, not smaller!😂
miapdx: They put potato chips in the crack.
hows things in Portland i used to work on Swan island, had a house in Milwaukie, hated every minute if it
@@snakeriverfisher it's good.
Snyder's of Berlin , another Pennsylvania goodie , not to be confused with Snyder's of Hanover , some people's fave Wise chips ,
Wise chips are the worst there always burnt
I very seldom eat Potato Chips...but when I do, I LOVE to use Cottage Cheese as a Dip, and by far the Kettle Brand stands up to the scooping up of the Cottage Cheese. I grew up in a town that had a Laura Scudder's potato chip factory, EVERYBODY would roll down the car windows when you got close to the plant, the smell was AWESOME.
Bviously you've never heard of Miss Vickie's.
... then Charles Chips showed up and wiped out the competition.
Lay's lightly salted is the only chip to get. It's what regular Lay's USED to be in the 70's before they made them so salty you couldn't eat them.
100% agree, especially when you first open the bag!
Yes I like those too, I'm not a fan of Kettle chips , way too hard , I like crisp not crunch.
Lays sour cream for me
I totally agree. Lay's low sodium chips are perfect! Love `em.
I can eat a whole bag of those it's so bad 🤪
Always loved Lays but lately every chip is blemished/burned at the edges. Also a lot of the chips look like they were made with inferior potatoes with notable brown spots .Lays has lowered their quality . Check it out for yourself.
Try Utz.
You are absolutely right! I have been seeing the same things as you, brown spots, burnt edges, etc. I was thinking the quality of the potatoes they used for the chips must be sub-par! I almost contacted the company regarding this!
From Michigan: Better Made Rainbow old fashioned Dark potato chips. I am a 80yo woman who remembers when chips came light and dark in one bag. I would pick out the dark. Now I can buy all dark in one bag. There is no other flavor for me.
I love dark potato chips and dark french fries.
Thank you for teaching me about these chips! I'm definitely going to buy them to try now. I read more about them and they sound unbelievably delicious 💗💗💗💗
my chip criteria: Which brand would I use to crumble on top of tuna casserole or mac & cheese?
that mallard reaction is fire
Boulder Canyon Salt and Vinegar cooked in Avocado oil are the best chips I've had from the supermarket.
Give me a bag of Ruffles. That's all I need,, and want. The Walmart* and Kroger versions are just as good as the Lays version.
Ikr? My favorite one is Sour Cream and Cheddar whether it's Ruffles or the Walmart brand.
Granny Goose aren't bad either.
Not as good as Ruffles, but I find them at the dollar store and for the price, I can't complain one bit.👍🏻
@@daisymae3883
Oh yeah...Sour Cream and Cheddar.🙂🙂🙂🙂
Bappys NEW ORLEANS KETTLE $TYLE chips are great xD
I swear the Kroger brand wavy chips are the BEST wavy chips available!
Why do I keep watching these? As usual most of the brands tested are not in stores here in the Midwest
Grandma Utz Kettle-Style, cooked in lard. The best by far.
Do they still exist? Lard can certainly be the ticket, as well as fresh, sweet, delicious potato flavor.
I remember when McDonalds fries were cooked in lard and they used to actually have some flavor
@@kathleennorton6108 Yes, they are still available.
You’re right, great chips
So what about the traditional bag of Lay's? Love those
@@sandrah7512 they're disorganized and the title of video should be kettle chips ... it was stupid to display both types , talk about both, then only taste one type in the video.
@@KenDanieli she tastes one that wasn't kettle style
Me, too.
Cape Cod chips are by far the best of all. I am almost 60 and have been a big chip fan since my first crunch. On a camp out I was introduced to Cape Cod and fell in love with them. CAPE COD RULES THEM ALL!
Cape Cod Dark Russet Potato Chips are the Best!
Truth!
Amen!
I’ll even eat their 40% reduced fat version.
Oh we need you to come join our new little channel. You're the kind of person we want!! Come join us chuck! :)
The best chips ever made were Cape Cod "Robust Russet." All the chips were like the over-browned chips you may find in a regular bag of chips. They were so-o-o flavorful. For some reason, they are no longer available. A close second were Costco's Kirkland brand Tri-colored chips made from purp,le, red and regular potatoes which are also not longer available. No other chips come close to these, IMO. Sure wish they would come back on the market.
We always go for the browns first. Yum!
I had them, they were so good. Loads of potato flavor so you did not need to eat as many to curb your craving. They also sold a style with a very unique seasoning that you could almost call plain as it was not a like a BBQ or ranch.
Renee you should try UTZs Chesapeake bay crab seasoning chips and their Carolina BBQ. Sadly they are not kettle but the taste is so regional it reminds you of a vacation at the beach.
Jaholpano is my go-to, the only one I don't like it they type from Schlotkis? Scholotckis ?sandwich shop.
They still sell them in Boston! We got a bag at Wegmans a month ago along with their other summer flavors.
@@tony_mccourt You are very lucky to be able to buy them locally. I was glad to know that these chips have made a comeback, but no grocery retailer in my area sells any brand of dark russet chips. I checked out Amazon, but cannot afford to pay that much for a bag of chips. My next move is to ask my grocer to start stocking these chips. Customers here in Texas would really love them. Wish me luck!
I remember them. Thick and full of great potato flavor. Perfect consistency too.
Nobody has a guilty pleasure for Munchos? crazy
I do! Love them, so light, salty and unique.
Loved them as a kid but too artificial tasting now that I'm older. I bet they changed the recipe, different kind of fat and more salt.
YES! I do! So light-- man, it's been awhile since I picked up a bag of Munchos! Thanks for the reminder, I owe you one! And we need you on our chip review community! Come over and join us!
we just launched!
Mrs. Vicky's chips are delicious
They are made by Lays
If you don't have real potatoes around and want mashed potatoes.
Just take a bag of chips...hydrate them with milk and heat up the whole mash.
Add sour cream...whatever..
You have mashed potatoes.
Really? How did you come across this?
@@sylvia106 Sam the cooking guy.
It seems the best chips and pretzels in the U.S. originally came from south central Pennsylvania.
The area has farm resources plus generations of food processing experience . They produce some highly regarded munchies.!
I toured the Utz plant in Pa. years ago. I can still imagine the aromas.
My favorite is Hartley's made in Lewistown, Pa. Middleburg would be second best.
Also, Tim's make the best kettle chips on earth.
You didn't even talk about the Lay's potato chips on the table that was kind of off. Don't show the product if you're not going to talk it. Lay's are the best anyway
I have to try the utz brand, I love lay's, so comparison shopping for me first.
3 out of 4 chips are sold in the Eastern US, hard to find them out in the Western US.
I have friends in California that buy Cape Cod chips all the time. You can definitely find them out by you! It’s worth it, Cape Cod makes the BEST chips.
You should move east!
Utz are my favorite. Any flavor will do..addictive..and totally worth it..just polished off their sweet and smokey flav..good to the last chippy crumb😀
The Utz brand is sold under the Boulder name here in California. I believe they have other regional brands - I've only seen the Utz name on the East Coast.
True, I've not heard of Utz or Herr's. Will have to look for them.
Okay I have to say, while I do love some of the brands shown here, if you have an Aldi near you, go buy a bag of their Clancy’s chips! They are one of the best tasting chips I’ve had lately, and they’re only 99 cents for an 8 oz bag!!!....Hurry, go get some 😋
Agreed! Clancy holds their own! Carl, we just launched our family chip review channel-- feel free to come over and join us! We'd love to have you!
Americas Test Kitchen is such a great channel. I love them so much.
except when they act like fat in foods is bad
Your jokes make my heart melt
Why display 8 bags, and only taste 4..I see Wise up there, my favorite because it sells for $2, and it taste great..
Are some of these brands specific to the east coast? I’ve not heard of Utz or Herr’s brands.
Yeah, they're an east coast thing
Wuttttt really?
We have some Utz chips available in Wisconsin, but I never heard of Herrs. One of the things that annoys me about Cook’s Country and America’s Test Kitchen is their penchant for Eastern brands that are not available elsewhere. And don’t tell me to order those brands online; I shop locally to support local businesses.
Herr's are a Pennsylvania based brand. Utz are national. I get them in Washington state.
Utz is from my hometown in Pennsylvania. You wouldn't believe how good they are fresh off the line in the factory!
Lays potato chips are my favorite food in the whole wide world 🥰
No Better Made? Test invalid. They should've gone top 10 instead of top 9, but that would've been unfair.
Don't care for kettle chips, I like light chips not throwing stars.
throwing stars! lol!🤣
Utz has been my favorite brand of chips for many years.
Have you noticed they have reduced the size of their bags?
Growing up in York County, Pennsylvania, we were the snack food capital of the US if not the world. So my ability to let ATC judge fairly was impaired. The original mass marketed kettle chip is from a company called Martin's. But the two very best versions are cooked in lard. The first being Gibbles. Their tag line was/is nibble with Gibbles. So amazing. Maybe not quite as thick as modern kettle, but nice and crunchy. The UTZ company decided to cash in and create the Grandma Utz line. Also cooked in lard. Absolutely amazing. Most folks in the US probably have no local vendors for these two. Please seek them out and give 'em a try. And Martin's was so very beloved by President Clinton that he had them served on Air Force One. I think his fav was the ripple bbq. I can tell you, they are ok, but get the real kettle cook'd (as the lable says.)
my parents grew up in Hanover, Pennsylvania and I grew up in Lancaster county. We definitely know our chips.
tbh I'm not big on Martin's. they're not bad, but they're not what I'd call "great." I was more into Utz and Herr's.
What, NO Pringles? C'mon Jack......
My favorite chips are Lays Lightly Salted Chips
Same here because the regular Lays are so salty. And can be a bit greasy sometimes.
HELL YES FINALLY I HAVE FOUND ANOTHER
I buy their Unsalted chips and then lightly salt them myself with my "Real Salt" (looks like Himalayan Pink.)
The problem is the severely unhealthy oils they're fried in.
mine too, but I don't have unsalted Lay's in my town, wish I did. When I lived in Baltimore, I was introduced to Utz and they had unsalted chips. I like the unsalted version of any thin potato chip but they are hard to find.
@@msducks7912 ... Have you tried Wal-Mart for the Wise unsalted?
I love the chips that are folded over - I will scour thru the whole bag to get all the folded ones! I think they have more flavor (the oil gets trapped a bit and they aren't overly salted). Love them - don't matter which brand!! 😁❤💯
I agree with you! I open the bag before anyone else and I dig around for the folded ones, my absolute favorite! If you can't find many in a bag, put 2 chips together and crunch away.
Living in Arkansas we usually only have 2 choices, Lay's or Great Value.
I was gonna say that y'all should have thrown in some Zapp's, but those are just Utz packaged and seasoned for the South.
Heart Doctor is the real winner
I prefer kettle style as well. Cape Cod chips Rock!
Kettle brand chips are from my hometown, Salem, Oregon. Doesn’t matter that they didn’t win, they still represent. :)
Along with Tim’s Cascade. Great chips.
I enjoy and appreciate Jack's taste tesrs. It is a reminder that we can agree to disagree. The comments help sort out flavor features that are very helpful for choosing brands.
If you eat Zapp’s from New Orleans, but available nationwide, you be spoiled forever. ⚜️
I agree! Zapp’s are THE BEST!!!
Really good chips.
Once you've had Zapps, all others pale in comparison.
Yes!!!!
I hope to god I am never at a point in my life where I am sitting in a crowd, clapping for a potato chip review.
Or the worst ever, Gutter Guard. Are people that desperate?
You forgot Whole Foods 365 Everyday Value, Rippled Potato Chips. Probably the best chip I have found as I continue my lifelong search for the perfect chip. I know I am not alone. They are almost always sold out during corona virus times and I can always get the others.
WISE are the best regular chips. Thin and crispy, the bestkettle are UTZ.
Both Herr's and Utz are manufactured near my home in south central PA. When I was younger I preferred the thin crispy Herr's. They are however salty at 7% of recommended daily allowance for sodium. I now prefer a thicker chip and Utz makes the ones I prefer. They also have a lower sodium content. I must admit though that my favorite chip is made by a smaller local company, Good's (in the blue and white bag, there is another Good's in a red and white bag, the chip of my childhood) they fry their chips in lard which lends a whole additional flavor. They are so good. The way chips were originally made.
My favorite are any low salt chip. More potato flavor.
Most chips have gone low salt. I add more to them. The salt is what makes them delicious (particularly the regular ones which are mostly tasteless)
Some years ago, I moved from Illinois to Pittsburgh, and promptly gained ten pounds because I discovered UTZ potato chips, LOL Rite Aid had alllll the flavors, and I couldn't help picking up a bag on my way to work almost every day. I'm back in Illinois, now, where there are no UTZ chips, although we do have the pretzels. But I check the chip aisle, anyway, looking for UTZ, almost dreading that I will find them, because I know I will buy them, and eat them, and eat them, and eat them, LOL I lost 20 pounds after I left Pittsburgh, between the lack of UTZ and Primanti Bros.
@@OhJodi69 You may see them arrive before much longer. The Utz brand potato chip is I believe the official snack for the MLB. I know they recently invested in a smaller midwestern snack company but I've forgotten which one.
Herr's is salty, but their oil is really good.
I got the Eric Estrada CHiPs reference. I'm older--ish Not Old. Big difference. I like Utz too.
It's late, and I'm on a diet. Why am I watching videos about potato chips??? Damn that TH-cam algorithm!!!
I absolutely love the Kettle chips, but after I got my wisdom teeth out it was a HARD PASS for several months, perhaps having almost shards of glass in the mouth would have been a bad idea, they are very crunchy
the Kettle brand's jalapeno flavored chips are a game changer
I prefer Middleswarth, Gibbles, and sometimes Martins over Utz. That's the advantage of living in Pennsylvania....the best chip in the country is 4th or 5th locally. Utz has had the business plan to grow their territory over the years where the others haven't
The best chip? Anything NOT kettle-cooked.
I just checked the math. You can eat 66.67% more of the reduced fat chips if you’re aiming to consume the same amount of fat.
As a treat I sometimes buy Deep River chips.
I love Dirty potato chips although they can be salty!!! And flavoured too
I have two questions... how much do you have to pay the mouth breathers to sit in a studio audience for an America’s Test Kitchen video... and how do you make a potato chip video with no Wavy Lays... or at least Ruffles??.
I'd like to be an audience member and feign mild excitement for potato chips
...while the camera focuses on you for an uncomfortably long time?
@@kareninalabama Sure. I'd feign surprise as though I'd never heard of this new invention "potato chip". What new kind of culinary wizardry is this? Are they available everywhere?
I eat potato chips so infrequently that they are ALL delicious to me. Even fake potato chips...Pringles. Seriously. 😀👍
The oil makes a HUGE difference. Some has a somewhat metallic taste.
Where was the rippled chips or the baked chips? My favorite rippled chip is Lay’s rippled. For BBQ flavored, it’s Walmart’s Great Value brand.
Eat 40% more? Brilliant!
See the other reply. She can eat 67% more of the low fat chips to have the same fat content.
Costco Kirkland Kettle chips for me. Love Cape Cod too.
Potato Chips are my weakness! The kettle cooked ones are the best!
I can tell you here in Pennsylvania we have brands not represented here that are better than all of those, especially if you like kettle chips.
Utz regular chips are my favorite! Great potato flavor, thin and delicate.
I love Utz chips! Not the Kettle ones. Onion and Garlic! Yum!
@@Mikki220 Have you tried the "Crab Chip" variety? It might be a regional thing here in the Washington, DC, area. So good!
@@stevenreichertart I lived in Pittsburgh for a few years, where my almost daily diet consisted of UTZ chips........the Old Bay crab seasoned ones were my favorites! Now I'm back in Illinois, and there are NO UTZ chips, here!
I live down the street from the Utz factory. Nothing like a bag of fresh chips from the Utz factory store.
@@brucev3480 do you know if they give tours at the Utz factory? I’m down in Washington DC and always wanted to go up to the factory.
Up in Western Canada, Old Dutch consistently better than Lay's. That's both for regular and kettle cooked. However, Lay's corn chips are consistently better than Old Dutch.
I clicked so fast! Need to find those chips!
karmasafari yes. Immediately went to Amazon & ordered reduced fat Utz ~ a brand I’ve never seen or tried. Lays lightly salted was my buddy but since quarantined I’ve found deliveries they’re tasting greasy...really really greasy.
I’ve never seen or heard of Utz. Gotta order!! ❤️ Chips
You need to come to Ohio and get some BBQ Grippo’s...best BBQ chips on the planet.
Where and when is this being filmed?! I’m curious because it’s not allowed here in Canada right now 😅 also I feel like the chips were very subjective compared to normal things this channel reviews. Like best cooking pots and knives and the like.
Not sure when it was filmed but they are filmed in Boston USA
The taste test was conducted in August 2018 BC.
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.
Have never seen Herr's brand, and I've lived on both coasts. Only learned about Utz from relatives in the Midwest.
Same here on the Northern Gulf Coast.
Utz is from Pennsylvania.
They make them down the street from me.
Jack should have added some potato chips cooked in lard to the larger (and Bridget's) blind taste test. Grandma Utz 'Handcooked' Potato Chips (made by Utz) might be the only variety of potato chips (cooked in lard) that might be widely available. (Seeing some of Bridget's preferences in other shows, I'd think she'd like them.) Such potato chips are especially popular in southeast Pennsylvania. Some other lard cooked potato chip varieties: Dieffenbach's 'Old Fashion Kettle Chips', Gibble's 'Home Style' Potato Chips, Good's 'Original' and 'Home Style' Potato Chips, Kay and Ray's 'Regular Potato Chips' and 'Dark Potato Chips', Moyer's Potato Chips, Stehman's Homestyle Kettle Cooked Potato Chips and Zerbe's Kettle Cooked Potato Chips. If you have any interest in finding Moyer's, Stehmman's or Zerbe's potato chips, then search out 'Marmel Industries'. I was surprised to compare the nutritional content between several potato chips: Lay's Classic potato chips have these nutritional facts: Total Fat 10g, Saturated Fat 1.5g, Trans Fat 0g; while Grandma Utz has these: Total Fat 8g, Saturated Fat 3g, Trans Fat 0g, Polyunsaturated Fat 1g, Monounsaturated Fat 3.5g. One might think potato chips cooked in lard would leave a greasy feel in your mouth, but I've had chips cooked in hydrogenated soybean oil or palm oil that left more of a greasy feeling in your mouth (plus had 5g of saturated fat per serving).
Actually you can eat 66.7% or two thirds more than the low fat. Do the math.
Lol, yeah - they dont understand math
Can you explain the math please? Thanks.
If the content is 60% of the regular chips, then what portion of that 60% would be needed to reach 100%, the equivalent of the regular chip. The answer is simple proportional arithmetic: 100 - 60 = 40; then the 40 addtional/60 new chip = 2/3 or 66.7 %. In other words to get fro 60 to 100 you would need 2/3 more of the low fat chip. Hope that helps.
Steve Givens Thank you. It did help.
I hate Kettle chips. My favorite are the regular Lay's and then the BBQ version. Ruffled versions are okay but no kettle chips. Regular are best.
Lay's Wavy Lightly Salted.