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August 4th, 2009



Potato Bag

Commercial Potato Peeler

In the mid Sixties, there was a tv commercial extolling the golden, crunchy goodness of potato chips. Its catch phrase was “I bet you may’t eat only one!” Truer words had been by no means spoken. A tiny nibble off the sting of a potato chip, no matter what your good intentions, led from the nibble to a traditional dimension bite. Without considering, you had eaten your complete chip in a blink of an eye. You thought to your self, another chip cannot hurt. Nor the next one, nor the one after that. What was taking place?! Good heavens! Was the commercial right? Were you turning into a potato chip junkie?

Let’s shed some light on the origins of this crunchy treat.

In the mid 1850s, frying potatoes was an accepted and common form of American cooking. The normal manner of getting ready fried potatoes was to slice them throughout the slim axis and then fry them. They weren’t eaten with the fingers but reasonably, served with a fork, to be consumed in a genteel manner. Eating places across the nation were serving fried potatoes, however it wasn’t till the chef at Moon Lake Lodge in Saratoga Springs, New York, sliced the potato items so skinny did they turn out to be the rage.

It is generally thought by meals historians that George Crum was the inventor of the potato chip. He was a colourful character in the Saratoga Springs area. A former guide within the Adirondacks, he came from a racially mixed background; he was half Indian and half African-American.

In 1853, George Crum was working as a cook dinner on the Moon Lake Lodge resort. As mentioned earlier, fried potatoes have been a well-liked fare. A demanding dinner visitor, rumored to be Cornelius Vanderbilt, discovered his order of French fries (at that time, potatoes reduce in a round form) too thick for his liking and sent them back to the kitchen. Crum made a second batch, cut thinner than earlier than and likewise fried, however these, too, have been also rejected as being too thick. By this time, Crum was more than aggravated and in a fit of pique, took it upon himself to rile the guest by making him French fries that had been a lot too skinny and crisp to be skewered by a fork.

His “revenge” backfired on him. The fussy diner was ecstatic in regards to the paper-skinny potatoes and other visitors requested Crum’s potatoes for themselves. Crum initially called his snack “Potato Crunches” however the dish, now a house specialty, was listed on the menu as “Saratoga Chips.” Shortly thereafter, they have been packaged and bought, at first regionally, however quickly grew in recognition throughout the New England area.

In 1860, Crum opened up his personal restaurant which featured his chips as the home specialty. He put baskets of the chips on each table and so they became a significant drawing point to the success of his restaurant. Other than advertising the chips, Crum foolishly did not patent or otherwise defend his invention.

Peeling and slicing potatoes manually was sluggish and tedious. The Twenties invention of the mechanical potato peeler precipitated the potato chip trade to skyrocket from being a small specialty merchandise to a prime-selling snack food.

Potato chips have been mainly a Northern dinner dish for several a long time after their invention. However, in the Nineteen Twenties, merchandizing and distribution of the snack took a turn for the better; their reputation growing year by 12 months all through the whole twentieth century.

In the Twenties, Herman Lay, a touring salesman working the Southern area of the nation, was a major catalyst in popularizing the chips from Atlanta to Tennessee. He peddled Crum’s creation to Southern grocers straight out of the trunk of his automobile, his identify and business eventually becoming synonymous with this crisp and salty treat. In 1932, he bought a potato chip factory in Atlanta. 1938 marked the start of Lay’s Model Potato Chips.

The early part of the twentieth century introduced forth several firms constructing giant factories for the mass production of potato chips. The 1920s gave delivery of three companies which outline the potato chip industry. Earl Clever, Sr., of the Sensible Delicatessen Company in Berwick, Pennsylvania, had too many potatoes. In 1921, he used the extras to make potato chips and sold them in brown paper luggage as Sensible Potato Chips through the delicatessen.

In 1921, Utz High quality Foods of Hanover, Pennsylvania was founded by Bill and Salie Utz. Salie made the chips which had been marketed and sold by her husband Bill, and have been known as Hanover Home Brand Potato Chips. Salie was able to prove about 50 pounds of potato chips per hour, utilizing hand-operated equipment, in a small summer home behind their home. 1926 was noteworthy for potato chip distribution. Till then, potato chips were kept in bulk in cracker barrels or glass show cases. Retailers distributed the chips in paper bags. Paper was not very practical, as oil from the chips might seep by the sacks and onto the consumer’s hands.

Laura Scudder had a family chip enterprise in Monterey Park, California. She understood the inherent flaw within the paper sacks; nobody enjoyed being coated with cooking oil. Her inspired solution to this problem was brilliant. When her ladies employees went house at night time, carrying sheets of waxed paper, they hand-ironed them into bags (the unique Baggie(TM)?). The following day, the workers hand-filled chips into the waxed paper luggage after which sealed them with a warm iron. Voila! Greaseproof bags, able to be delivered to retailers.

Potato chips are now the favourite snack of Americans, who eat more potato chips than another population within the world.

Some attention-grabbing aspect notes:

In colonial instances, New Englanders thought-about potatoes to be ultimate as pig fodder. They believed that eating these tubers shortened a person’s life expectancy. The New Englanders were not involved that potatoes were fried in fats and covered with salt (each cardiologist’s bane); they’d way more worry about pleasures of the flesh. They believed the potato, in its pristine state, contained an aphrodisiac which led to actions and behavior felt to be detrimental to lengthy life; based on these souls, eating an unadulterated potato led to the demon SEX and of course, sex led to the downfall of man. For more than over a century, we now have known this to be not true and just the result of misdirected thinking.

Mass potato chip manufacturing, in fashionable facilities, makes use of continuous fryers or flash frying. Shockingly, some potato chips are made out of reconstituted potato flakes (yuck!) in place of uncooked potato slices.

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