Kettle Corn vs. Kettle Chips

[MadRiver]

Here's a random thought. Kettle corn and kettle chips. Same name. Very different.

 

[tony barnhill]

What are "kettle chips"?

 

[MadRiver]

To tell you the truth, I'm not really sure what makes a kettle chip a kettle chip. They seem to be regular potato chips, but a bit thicker and greasier.

 

[TR6oldtimer]

What are "kettle chips"?

Ma and Pa Kettle, in the cow pasture, picking up chips for the fire...

 

[rlwhitetr3b]

According to the internet, the definitive source of all truth, kettle chips are potato chips made by the Kettle food company while kettle corn is sweetened pop corn.

 

[Twosheds]

Utz Kettle Classic chips are "cooked in 100% pure peanut oil [in a kettle, one would think] for extra crunchiness—which means you can taste <span style="font-style: italic">and</span> hear the difference in every chip."

Mmmmm...

 

[DaveatMoon]

According to the snack food episode of <span style="font-style: italic">Modern Marvels</span>, kettle chips are made by the batch in a traditional kettle or similar device. Modern potato chips are made in a continuous fryer and are more uniform. Until the continuous fryer was invented in 1929 all chips were of the "kettle" type.

Kettle chips are usually thicker, with a higher oil content. They <span style="text-decoration: underline">can</span>, depending on the sugar content of the potatos used, have a more of a cooked potato flavor.

 

[aerog]

Beat me to it... anyway, Cape Cod potato chips are kettle-cooked chips. For me they're about the best there is, but sometimes they're just too crunchy.

 

[tony barnhill]

Beat me to it... anyway, Cape Cod potato chips are kettle-cooked chips. For me they're about the best there is, but sometimes they're just too crunchy.

Oh yeah! Love their "Classic" & "Sea Salt & Vinegar" chips.....1 bag per movie & Jerri has to get her own!

 

[aerog]

Haven't tried that one.

<span style="font-style: italic">THREAD DRIFT:</span> Speaking of flavors, I recently tried "salt and pepper" cashews. Sounded really horrible, but they're absolutely addicting. I can see doing that to chips too.

 

[TR6BILL]

Ya'll haven't lived until you have tried double-fried hog cracklins. Stuff that will make your heart get goin....or stop. A true Cajun delicacy.

 

[tony barnhill]

Ya'll haven't lived until you have tried double-fried hog cracklins. Stuff that will make your heart get goin....or stop. A true Cajun delicacy.

Every since I pulled some cracklin's out of the vat at the slaughterhouse before they were processed, I've not touched one....they're one of those delicacies you have to acquire a taste for,

 

[Don_R]

double-fried hog cracklins.

Now ya'll gone and made me hungry..

 

[Banjo]

Haven't tried that one.

<span style="font-style: italic">THREAD DRIFT:</span> Speaking of flavors, I recently tried "salt and pepper" cashews. Sounded really horrible, but they're absolutely addicting. I can see doing that to chips too.

they're delicious and very addicting.
I second Tony on the Cape Cod Sea salt and vinegar chips! those are great.they'll turn your lips into rasins in half a bag.

 

[aerog]

I'll have to keep my eyes open for those!

 

[MadRiver]

All good stuff. Let's not sell kettle corn short! Whenever I get some, I tend to eat the entire batch. Oh yeah.....