Potato chips lose crunch and taste within a week
We make potato chips commercially, but they lose crunch and taste within 7 days.
How can one delay or prevent potato chips from losing their crunchiness and taste?
Best Answer
How do you store/package them ?
AFAIK, commercial chips are stored in bags filled with nitrogen to prevent oxydation.
https://indianapublicmedia.org/amomentofscience/potato-chips-stay-fresh-bag/
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Why do chips become rancid?
Chips go stale because they've gained too much moisture. That's because chips lose most of the moisture inside them during the frying process, creating a crunchy network of starch molecules. Those molecules are hydrophilic, meaning they attract water from the air around them.Can you smell stale chips?
Potato chips are the cornerstone of American snack food and there's a simple way to tell they are safe to eat after being in the cupboard for a while. \u201cIf it smells rancid or sour, that means the oils have gone bad and you just toss them,\u201d Ramos said.How do you store potato chips in the fridge?
The best option to preserve them would be a resealable bag, not the fridge. NO! refrigerators have a high humidity level, it's is this humidity which will ruin your potato chips. best to put the opened bag in an airtight box and store in a cupboard or on the counter top until needed.Why are my chips wet?
In the time it takes for the food to reach the customer's door, the lack of ventilation combined with the heat of the food itself, steams the chips, causing them to go limp and moisture ridden. Packaging can transform perfectly crunchy chips into floppy stems.Sources: Stack Exchange - This article follows the attribution requirements of Stack Exchange and is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
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