Sliced Potato Chips VS Compound Potato Chips

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Sliced Potato Chips VS Compound Potato Chips

If you have a close look at the potato chips you buy from stores, you will find some differences in the package bag. Some state that the potato chips are made from sliced potatoes while others may claim that their potato crisps are made from potato flakes. Perhaps you have never considered such a tiny difference and think both are similar. However, to potato chips manufacturers, a miss is as good as a mile. There are lots of differences between making sliced fried potato chips and compound potato chips.
Both fried potato chips and compound potato chips are fried in oil which you have to distinguish from baked or puffed potato chips. The main difference between fried potato chips and compound potato crisps is that the former uses fresh potatoes while the latter is made from potato powders and other ingredients powder. Words can not express much while there are two famous potato chips bands you must be familiar with: Lay’s(Fried potato chips) and Pringles(compound potato crisps).

Making Methods

Fried Potato Chips

The way to produce large fried potato chips is similar to homemade potato chips style. Let us review the steps we make potato chips at home firstly. 1. Wash potatoes; 2. Peel potatoes; 3. Slice potatoes(if we cut potatoes into strips, that’s french fries!); 4. Pre-cook(these steps may vary. Generally we wash potato slices to remove starch or put them in the refrigerator and fry the next day); 5. Fry sliced potatoes in hot oil; 6. Use a grease blotter to remove extra oil for a healthy diet; 7. Mix fried potato chips with your favorite sauce like tomato paste or salt.
Like the above homemade steps, large potato chips production has similar but larger processing machines. And these potato chips processing lines can be automatic or semi-automatic. Fried potato chips, featured by sliced potatoes, have a strong potato scent and the best luster. Blanching machines in the potato chips plant have the functions of inactive enzymes and reduce microbial to keep original taste and color.

Compound Potato Chips

Unlike fried potato chips production which process potatoes directly, the compound potato chips production line has the pre-processing machines to grind potatoes into powder.
The first steps from washing to blanching are the same while for a different purpose. If we regard pre-processing steps in fried potato chips production as to get finished products — fried potato chips, the pre-processing steps in compound potato chips production is to get raw material — potato powder. Blanched potato slices have to be fully cooked and carefully mashed. Only potato powder in the tiny mesh can be made into good potato chips.

The following processing steps are to mix, mold and shape, fry and de-oil, and flavor and package same as fried potato chips process. While what cannot be taken lightly is the mixture of powders and liquid. Unlike raw material in fried potato chips can be processed at one time, potato powder mixture has to be mixed several times. To keep a unique taste and flavor of the finished potato chips, we must minimize the random error and try to ensure a uniform powder mixture.

Package

Because of the non-uniform shape and appearance of chips, fried potato chips are usually packaged in nitrogen-filled bags. While compound crisps are mold in uniform shape so compound potato chips are packaged in simple drums or cans.

Nutrition

As a kind of snack, both fried potato chips and compound potato chips have much less nutrition compared to food and vegetables. It’s to compare apples and oranges when comparing the nutrition in snacks and food.
Some health theorists take potato chips as a serious harmful snack that may lead to cancer of their high oil content. If you can google, you will find many news and reports that have overturned the scary rumor.

What can be seen from the table above, we get to know that the fat or oil content is still on average. And the so-called non-fried potato chips which are usually baked have no less oil content than fried potato chips. It comes to the processing methods of non-fried potato chips. In baked potato chips production, potato slices are baked in an oven with no oil while in flavoring parts much oil is added to stick sauces onto these dry crisps.

Taste

Fried potato chips, featured by sliced potatoes, have a strong potatoes scent and crisp taste. Fried potato chips have dominated the snack market for hundred of years and have a wide range of customers. Compound potato chips are made from potato powders and other powders which increase raw materials and new flavors. Compound potato chips have different and various shapes, unlike traditional round potato chips.