salt n' vinegar crisps
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Is anyone on here obsessed with getting a really strong Salt and vinegar hit? You know, you get the odd bag that seems to have had double dosage of flavour. MMMMM!
Anyhow, my wife comes home from Tesco with a Tescos own cheapo bulk bag of crisps, amongst said bag are Salt and Vinegar chip sticks. Seriously they are sooooo strong it's amazing. If you like strong flavour then get some. Just pour a glass of water for when you have had them!
Anyhow, my wife comes home from Tesco with a Tescos own cheapo bulk bag of crisps, amongst said bag are Salt and Vinegar chip sticks. Seriously they are sooooo strong it's amazing. If you like strong flavour then get some. Just pour a glass of water for when you have had them!
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Justin Cyder said:
In my line of business, I've watched them being made a few times. Puts you off a bit.
Having said that, I've gone mad for salt & vinegar peanuts. Love them with a glass of wine to line the old tub. I have to confine it to once a week, what with the waistline and all.
Why would it put you off? Is it a particularly nasty process?Having said that, I've gone mad for salt & vinegar peanuts. Love them with a glass of wine to line the old tub. I have to confine it to once a week, what with the waistline and all.
No, it's as you would imagine it in most places, a long fryer, the gear goes in raw one end, comnes out cooked at the other, flavouring is often added electrostatically - like a pressure washer lance pointed into a cement mixer affair & it's blown onto the crisps whilst electrically charged & sticks. Quite interesting stuff.
However, it's obviously not the most challenging work & you do see some bad practices, poor hygiene & dodgy shortcuts - spillages scooped up, vermin, hairy workers, the usual afflictions with food busineses.
I don't hang around these places, I just have a few customers who manufacture, but I recall once visiting a place in Medomsley Road, Consett, County Durham (for those with long memories) and watching congealed lumps of fat that would evaporate from the fryers, drop to the floor and then be thrown back in the hot oil. Not the nicest thing I've ever seen.
However, it's obviously not the most challenging work & you do see some bad practices, poor hygiene & dodgy shortcuts - spillages scooped up, vermin, hairy workers, the usual afflictions with food busineses.
I don't hang around these places, I just have a few customers who manufacture, but I recall once visiting a place in Medomsley Road, Consett, County Durham (for those with long memories) and watching congealed lumps of fat that would evaporate from the fryers, drop to the floor and then be thrown back in the hot oil. Not the nicest thing I've ever seen.
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