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REVIEW: Kitchen Cooked – Spicy Lousiana Style Tangy Hot Sauce Potato Chips

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Rating: ©©©-3/4 chips  (notable)

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Chip Review came across these virtually unknown (to us at least) chips in a small town gas station on the side of the highway between Chicago and St. Louis.  Since we’d never heard of this small scale, local Illinois, chip company, we thought we better do a little research.  Turns out…..

(Courtesy of http://www.kitchencooked.net)

This company’s… “story humbly began during the Great Depression of the 1930’s. During those turbulent times, Mrs. Flossie Howard and her family began making potato chips as a way to help supplement the family’s income. Their efforts included the tedious process of peeling, slicing and cooking by hand the potatoes in small, cast iron kettles. Their small business located in the front portion of an abandoned church, would also serve as their home in the small Central Illinois community of Farmington.  The homemade chips were a huge success in Farmington and soon word spread to other nearby communities. The fresh and tasty potato chips were becoming quite popular!….

Kitchen Cooked circa 1930

We love hearing about stories like this.  Great people, bringing crunchy and salty goodness to this world!

Kitchen Cooked (KC) Spicy Lousiana Style Tangy Hot Sauce Potato Chips have a nice, vinegary nasal burn to them (and a long-winded descriptive name…).  They definitely smell of hot sauce, and do have a bit of heat and vinegary zip to when they first pop into your mouth.  We noticed that the ingredients also included a bit of cheese powder among them, we didn’t really taste any cheese flavor, but there was a bit of creaminess to them, which was nice.

The potato chips themselves were definitely different tasting, and mouth feeling than the everyday standard medium thickness potato chips on the market.  These chips almost feel as if they are a bit stale, but we’re pretty sure that this is the texture that KC is aiming for.  We like them, but a lot of people may not just the same.  Another thing we noticed that was a bit peculiar regarding these chips was the fact that they still have 3 grams of trans fats per serving…!!!  Trans fats for the most part, are practically nonexistent in most snacks these days.  We’re guessing that the trans fat is a result of using shortening in the cooking process, and maybe this is what gives these chips their texture as well?

So if you see some Kitchen Cooked Potato Chips during your road trip through Illinois, do the small guy a favor / support local, and pick up a bag or two.

As always, these are our thoughts, we would love to hear what you think.  Agree or disagree, let us know.

Chip Ratings Scale:

(1/4 increments)

© – return to sender

©© – tolerable

©©© – notable

©©©© – lip-smacking

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