gunDriller
18th February 2013, 02:14 PM
The asteroid last Friday, which was upstaged by the meteorite in Russia, gave me the incentive to beef up my food reserves in the category of "food that doesn't need refrigeration or cooking".
My goal was to fill in the gaps (because I ate some of my food preps) and pile up 2 months worth. That is a different category from food preps that DO need cooking.
In the Potato Food Group, if money was no object and I wasn't a do-it-yourself-er, I would just go buy 12 to 15 big bags of potato chips, figuring I would get about 4 to 5 days out of each bag.
But the price difference is major - 20 cents a pound for potatoes, $4 a pound for good potato chips.
I understand the basic process of cooking potato chips - you slice them thin and cook them on a big hot wok or griddle that is greased so they don't stick to it. + Salt.
OK, and then you dry them out. Lay them in trays in the sun, not unlike making beef jerky.
But what do you do next ? Vacuum seal ?
Can't can them, who wants soggy potato chips ?
It makes me wonder, how do the potato chip manufacturers do it ? Just use a boat-load of preservatives ? Or maybe the chip bag is filled with nitrogen ?
Anyway, I would like to prepare a bunch of home made cooked potato chips, but I'm not sure how to store them.
Just put them in bags and cross my fingers ?
My goal was to fill in the gaps (because I ate some of my food preps) and pile up 2 months worth. That is a different category from food preps that DO need cooking.
In the Potato Food Group, if money was no object and I wasn't a do-it-yourself-er, I would just go buy 12 to 15 big bags of potato chips, figuring I would get about 4 to 5 days out of each bag.
But the price difference is major - 20 cents a pound for potatoes, $4 a pound for good potato chips.
I understand the basic process of cooking potato chips - you slice them thin and cook them on a big hot wok or griddle that is greased so they don't stick to it. + Salt.
OK, and then you dry them out. Lay them in trays in the sun, not unlike making beef jerky.
But what do you do next ? Vacuum seal ?
Can't can them, who wants soggy potato chips ?
It makes me wonder, how do the potato chip manufacturers do it ? Just use a boat-load of preservatives ? Or maybe the chip bag is filled with nitrogen ?
Anyway, I would like to prepare a bunch of home made cooked potato chips, but I'm not sure how to store them.
Just put them in bags and cross my fingers ?