1. INTRODUCTION OF POTATO CHIPS:
Potato chips also called as potato crisps were invented in the year 1853 by Native American George Crum. The story behind the invention goes like this. George was employed as a chef at an elegant resort in Saratoga Springs, New York. One dinner guest felt George’s French fries too thick for his liking and rejected the order. In order to rile the guest Crum decided to make fries too thin and crisp. But seeing the browned, paper thin fries the guest was overjoyed and other guest present there also started requesting Crum’s potato chips. There after potato chips began to appear on the menu as Saratoga chips, a house specialty (John E. Harmon). From then on potato chips went on to capture the snack market.
2. PRODUCT AND ITS KEY CHARACTERISTICS:
Potato chips serve as an appetizer, side-dish or as a snack. Potato chips are made by deep frying or baking thin slices of potato until they become brown and crisp. When potato chips were invented they were fried in oil until they turned light brown and salt added as taste maker. These kinds of chips are the simplest one now. They can be consumed during any time of the day .They are liked by people of all age groups right from school going kids to old people .They are available every where in different sizes, shapes, packages, flavors. Different types of potato chips according to food24 website are
Straw chips: Potato is cut into the thinnest possible slices and then cut again into fine straws. They are fried for about 3 minutes at a constant temperature of 190 deg. C until it gets golden brown.
Matchstick chips: Potatoes are cut into 3mm julienne strips, about 6cm long. They are fried once at 190 deg. C, for about 4 minutes until they turn golden brown.
French Fries: Potato is cut into 6mm sticks about 7 cm long. Then they are fried once at 177 deg C until tender. Its Drained and cooled and again fried in hotter oil for about 2 minutes, at 190 deg. C until crisp and golden brown.
Straight cut chips: Potatoes are cut into 1.
Method: [IMAGE] Equipment needed: Ruler Measuring Cylinder Scalpel Tongs Pipette Thermometer Tri-pod Stop-clock Gauze Delivery Tube Bunsen Burner Beaker Matches/Lighter Potato Hydrogen Peroxide Solution (20%) Water Lead Nitrate The skin of the potato was removed using a scalpel and then cut into 1cm², using a ruler to measure the size of each cube, four cubes are required for each experiment, and therefore at least 36 cubes are required for the full experiment to take place. Fill a beaker half way with water, and place a thermometer in the water. Allow the thermometer to warm to room temperature to gather an accurate reading, and measure the temperature, using the thermometer. A measuring cylinder was used to put 10ml of Hydrogen Peroxide Solution into a
The third potato chip will be placed in a hundred percent solution. I believe that this will make the potato chips shrivel and become flexible and stringy. This is because there is a higher concentration outside the cells and the water is being taken out to even the concentrations. This is what happens when a plant dies. The water leaves it in osmosis and the plant wilts and dies.
Method: Using a scalpel, cut five potato pieces. They should be of an almost equal size and mass. To ensure this, weigh the pieces.
Due to the relative ease of growing the potato it became the major staple in the diet of the people in Ireland. An Irish legend wrecked of the Irish coast in 1558, were carrying potatoes and some of them washed ashore (Stradley, 2004). The potato was cultivated by the Inca Indians from Peru in about 8,000 B.C. to 5,000 B.C. (Potatoes Goodness Unearthed, 2014). It is believed that the potato arrived in Northern Europe because of Spanish exploration (Mann, 2011). Forty percent of the Irish ate no solid food other than potatoes. In fact, according to Cecil Woodham-Smith, "That cooking any food other than a potato had become a lost art. Women hardly boiled anything but potatoes. The oven had become unknown after the introduction of the potato prior to the Great Starvation." Small land holders could grow potatoes easily ...
The most common theory to the invention of potato chips is that George was working at his restaurant when a customer complained that his french fried potatos were sliced too thick. George was annoyed at the customer thus he decided to annoy the customer back by slicing the potatos too thin to eat with a fork then his sister accidentally dropped it into the fryer. George served it to the customer but didn't get the reaction he was looking for. Instead, the customer was extremely pleased
Size of potato-will be the same as it will be cut using a cork and borer which cuts them all to the same diameter.
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Potatoes have become a staple to the diet of humans.They have become so popular since they come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and tastes. They are also cheap and easy to grow, and they taste delicious! Potatoes have changed the course of history in several ways. Who knew that potatoes, just a starchy vegetable, could have helped shape the world in so many ways. First, the Irish Potato Famine killed a million people and caused another million to move out of Ireland. Second, soldiers in the United States army were able to eat potatoes throughout the war. Third, they prevented a famine from occurring in England after there was not a sufficient amount of crops going to sustain the country's cries for food. Many people wonder if potatoes have
Experiment to Find the Reaction of Potato Chips in a Salt Solution. Aim: to find a reaction of potato chips in a salt solution. Hypothesis: I predict that the potato will change in mass. The difference will occur in accordance to the difference of concentration of the salt solution each potato chip is submerged in.
...ted, “the french fries were delicious- crisp and golden brown, made from potatoes that had been in the ground that morning. Eric Schlosser finished them and asked for more,” (Schlossr131).
The Potato Eaters is Van Gogh’s realist style where he thought of “peasants to be closer to nature than other people”. This began his religious view to capture life’s divinity. It was his first painting, which is a scene of a family at the kitchen table eating supper. His view on the scene was that these people worked all day, then come home to enjoy dinner with the same hard working hands that helped to make the dish, therefore, earning them an honest, genuine meal.
The potato is a starchy and a crop that stores a lot of nutrients. Nowadays, it’s the fourth most important crop, following rice, wheat, and maize, and sugar cane. People ate the potato much earlier, and we still eat it today. Potatoes had a long history. The origin of the potato was in South America.
At first stage, potatoes for all those three products are cleaned to remove stones and sledges before getting peeled, trimmed and sorted. In starch production, potatoes are then rasped in order to disrupt cell walls and release the starch. After this potato juice are separated and pulp is washed with water to flush out milk starch. After removing excessive water and drying the moist starch, the starch is ready to be packed and sent to market (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starch_production). As for chips and French fries production, after the first stage potatoes need to be cut or sliced and washed again. Processed potatoes need further blanching and drying. After deoiling, they enter the last stage in which chips get flavored and French fries are frozen and stored, and eventually packed for sell (http://www.madehow.com/Volume-3/Potato-Chip.html).
Potatoes are notorious for being one of the healthiest root vegetables and are cardinal to balanced lunches; however, an important question has been tossed into the air: should schools serve Fried Potatoes and Potato Products as a basic part of lunches? Public Schools that serve French Fries and Fried Potato Products are benefiting the Common Core grade point average and keeping the students contented. Potatoes are one of the healthiest natural foods on Earth. Though fries are prepared in oil, there are healthier ways of preparing them. The minerals of potatoes, if they are properly cooked, help students stay fit and full, give them healthy energy, and aid in the challenge of teaching them.
Sweet potatoes date back to 750 B.C. in Peruvian reports, even though archeologists have found evidence showing that sweet potatoes began around 2500-1850 BCE. It is also said that Columbus brought sweet potatoes from England and soon after they were transported here. They became very popular in South and Central America. Later, Columbus brought sweet potatoes back to Spain and there they became popular as well. Nonetheless in recipes it would get confused as to whether it was the white potato or the sweet potato. Not until the late 1740’s was when they began to distinguish a difference. The sweet potato also got more “fame” when England’s John Gerard wrote about the sweet potato in his 1597 Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. He wrote that the sweet potato “comforts, strengthens, and nourishes the body” and also, “procuring bodily lust”. Gerard’s suggested words could have been the reason for popularity of sweet potatoes during the 16th century.