2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
We guess you all like to eat potato chips, right? And have you ever wondered where and how this delicacy came from?
Translated from English, the word chips means a thin piece. This is a thin food product, which is a thinly sliced baked or fried potato that has been pre-salted. It can be flavored with various spices such as paprika, cheese, herbs and many others.
There is a story that the people who invented chips were the American millionaire Cornelius Vanderbild and the chef George Crum from the Moon Hotel in 1853. The rich man stayed at this hotel and returned his fries three times during lunch on the pretext that they were very thickly sliced. This naturally infuriated the cook, and he cut the next portion into almost transparent pieces, which he fried. The rich man remained fascinated and ordered such potatoes throughout his stay.
Soon after, chips became famous among the wealthy Americans and were present in all modern restaurants. In 1890, the chips were distributed outside these restaurants and reached the people on the street. The culprit was a Cleveland petty trader named William Tepender. He owned a snack bar where chips were made.
However, the overproduction of chips led to a crisis and the trader had to look for new customers. So he started offering all the chips on the street, in paper bags with the logo of his diner on them.
In 1926, a woman named Laura Skeder came up with the ingenious idea of selling chips in vacuum bags. Thus, it became more durable and could be transported over long distances.
In 1929, the first machine for the industrial production of chips was invented. Made by a mechanic named Freeman Macbeth, who provided it to a company. However, the inventor did not accept money for his machine, but simply asked me to repair it if necessary.
Nowadays, there are two main ways to make chips.
The traditional way to prepare it is as follows: to make it from pieces of raw potatoes. In this way, the quality of the final product is important, because not every variety of potato can make good chips. They must be dense, low in sugar, not damaged on the inside and have a smooth surface. From 5 kilograms of good potatoes you get 1 kilogram of chips.
The fat for frying the chips should not give it an extra smell. Therefore, in most cases, olive oil, soybean or palm oil is used for its preparation. Once the chips are ready, leave to dry at room temperature, salt, season with other spices and pack.
The second way to prepare it is as follows: It is prepared from potato dough, which is rolled out and shaped into pieces. This makes the chips lower in calories.
Everyone knows that Americans consume chips more than any other nation - an average of 3 kilograms per person per year. 11% of the potatoes grown in America are used to make chips.
In 1937, the Americans established the National Potato Chips Institute, which aimed to conduct research in this area. And in 1961 it became the International Potato Chips Institute.
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