How It's Made Soundboard Edit

A conveyor delivers the mix to an auger, which disperses it.

A device pulls away the scrap dough, leaving flat uncooked chips.

A Rotary cutter punches out oval shapes.

A worker inspects the rows of chips.

As they travel through the fryer, rolling molds give the chips a concave shape.

Automated spoons feed the chips into the open ends of the tubes.

Falling in neat piles.

Grippers lowered the stack tubes to a station where spinning heads force on metal bottoms.

Guides tapped the top of the tubes to nudge the chips into position.

How it's made

It takes about 20 minutes to make a tube of stackable chips, but it takes less time to Polish them off.

Now they're ready for shipping.

Spend 11 seconds frying in hot oil.

The chips get a coat of seasoning.

The chips spend 11 seconds frying in hot oil. This makes them crispy.

The scrap deal is recycled into the chip making process. The cut chips head into a fryer.

Then do a backflip off 1 conveyor onto another.

Then it's on to another conveyor that shakes them up to loosen the stacks.

They travel over scales to be portioned out for packaging.

They travel under blowers to get rid of excess oil.

This shape makes them easy to stack.

To make stackable chips, they use a ratio of 1/3 water to 2/3 potato flakes.

Using 4 tons of pressure, they roll the mix into one long potato sheet.

With a little cornstarch mixed in.

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