Kettle Chips brands tested by Serious Eats

July 12, 2010

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The Food blog "Serious Eats"compared the taste of an impressive range of Kettle Chips Brands. All in all, 17 brands were tested, including the brands Utz, Herr's, Gibble's, Dirty, Wise, Boulder Canyon, Madhouse Munchies, Deep River Snacks, Lay's, Cape Cod and Kettle.

A panel of nine Serious Eaters participated in a double-blind taste test, ranking each chip on a scale of one to five in three categories:

Saltiness
Potatoeyness
Texture

Serious Eats did not pick an overall favorite, but Madhouse Munchies was named the "Most Classic Kettle Chip"

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Cape Cod Potato Chips
US potato chip manufacturer focused on the production of kettle chips. Cape Cod potato chips is a subsidiary of Snyders - Lance Inc.
Deep River Snacks
Deep River Snacks is a family owned and operated business based in Old Lyme, Connecticut (US). All Deep River Snacks contain only natural ingredients, and are kosher certified and gluten free.
Dirty Potato Chips
Dirty is a brand of Kettle Cooked Potato Chips.
Frito-Lay North America (FLNA)
Frito-Lay North America (FLNA) includes Pepsico's snack operations in the United States and Canada where the company dominates the market with a range of savory snacks brands including Lay's, Ruffles, Doritos, Tostitos, Fritos, Cheetos and Sunchips
Good Health Natural Products, Inc
Good Health Natural Foods is a snack manufacturer offering a number of innovative snacks, such as Avocado oil potato chips, Olive oil potato chips and Humbles Baked Hummus Chips.
Herr Foods
Herr Foods (Herr's) is a family run Snack Food business with distribution throughout most of the eastern United States
Inventure Foods
Inventure Foods (formerly known as The Inventure Group) is a US manufacturer producing a range of savory snack foods.
Kettle Brand
Kettle Foods Inc. is the manufacturer of Kettle Brand Potato Chips. The company was founded in 1978 in Salem (Oregon). In 1988 production was started in Norwich in the United Kingdom.
Madhouse Munchies
Small potato chips company in Vermont, US
North Fork Potato Chips
Kettle chips manufacturer in New York State with distribution mainly in the North Eastern United States
Terra Chips
Founded in 1990, Terra Chips has pioneered new varieties of exotic vegetable chips and potato chips that have carved a new niche in the natural snacks market.
Utz Brands, Inc.
Utz Snacks is the largest independent privately held snack brand in the US. Weekly, Utz produces over 1 million pound of potato chips and nine hunderd thousand pounds of pretzels in 4 manufacturing facilities.
Wise Foods Inc.
Wise Foods Inc is a US manufacturer of chips and snacks with the brand names Wise Potato chips, Ridgies, Kettle cooked potato chips, Cheez Doodles, Bravos Tortilla Chips and Wise Popcorn

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