How Potato Chips Are Made In Factory?

Potato chips are thin slices of potatoes that have been sliced and fried until crispy. They are often served as a snack, side dish or appetizer. It has become a very common and popular snack these days. Advances in industry and mechanization have led to more potato chip manufacturers turning to new production models. So how potato chips are made in factory? Let's take a look at the video below. The video shows the processing process of the complete potato chip production line.

How Potato Chips Are Made In Factory?

How potato chips are made step by step?Now I will introduce each step of the production process of potato chips in detail.
Step 1: raw material selection. To obtain high-quality fried potato chips, it is necessary to select the potatoes required by the compounding process. Therefore, the raw materials are required to be potatoes with neat tuber shape, relatively uniform size, thin skin and consistent color, and few bud eyes.
Step 2: Wash and peel. Cleaning potatoes is an important measure to reduce impurity contamination, microbial contamination and pesticide residues. At the same time, the peeling can be completed during the cleaning process.
Step 3: Cut into slices. Use a potato slicer for quick batch slicing.
Step 4: Perform blanching. Potato chips need 2 to 3 minutes, the purpose is to destroy the activity of enzymes in potatoes and prevent browning at high temperature during frying.
Step 5: Remove moisture. In order to effectively reduce frying time, it is necessary to remove water before frying.
Step 6: Deep fry. The continuous potato chips frying machine is used for frying, and the temperature and frying time are controlled until the finished product is of good quality.
Step 7: Degrease the potato chips. Freshly fried potato chips will have more oil on the surface and need to be removed from the surface.
Step 8: Season the potato chips. Season to get more flavored chips.
Step 9: Packaging and selling. Sealed packaging for extended shelf life.

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