Which Potato Chips Did Our Tasting Panel Rate Highest? 

0:48 This guy is moved to tears by the description of chip frying technique

They left out my fav - Charles Chips! Delivered to you in a tin can since 1942!

AUDIENCE: Polite smiles on faces when Bridget jokes about CHiP and Eric Estrada. ME: Not a single person in there under 30 understood the reference. And if you’re wondering why I spelled “CHiP” this way, then you didn’t get the reference either.

Audience looking like they're about to hear the location of Atlantis

I love Utz! More potato taste, less salt. I've yet to see the lower fat variety...will have to look around for it.

I wish kettle vs regular chips was the only issue that divided us.

Ok I’m gonna start buying reduced fat potato chips from now on. Good to know and it makes perfect sense since you can’t make potato chips without oil and reducing the oil won’t do anything UPDATE: there’s only 4 supermarkets in my city that sell reduced fat utz kettle chips. i found them and they taste exactly the same as the regular utz kettle chips.

Cape Cod chips - anytime

I like the Kettle brand *because* they're so crunchy. I love my tater chips to fight back a bit. The delicate ones just make a mess in my mouth by collapsing too easily into mush.

In the back row Wise potato chips, the classic. The chips of NYC deli days of yore.

Better Made chips from Michigan are awesome.

THE best are "Better Made" outta Detroit! I have traveled the country, and found none better!

Why do I keep watching these? As usual most of the brands tested are not in stores here in the Midwest

Cape Cod chips are by far the best of all. I am almost 60 and have been a big chip fan since my first crunch. On a camp out I was introduced to Cape Cod and fell in love with them. CAPE COD RULES THEM ALL!

Moral of the story: It's hard to go wrong with potato chips.

Kettle brand chips are from my hometown, Salem, Oregon. Doesn’t matter that they didn’t win, they still represent. :)

Americas Test Kitchen is such a great channel. I love them so much.

Growing up in York County, Pennsylvania, we were the snack food capital of the US if not the world. So my ability to let ATC judge fairly was impaired. The original mass marketed kettle chip is from a company called Martin's. But the two very best versions are cooked in lard. The first being Gibbles. Their tag line was/is nibble with Gibbles. So amazing. Maybe not quite as thick as modern kettle, but nice and crunchy. The UTZ company decided to cash in and create the Grandma Utz line. Also cooked in lard. Absolutely amazing. Most folks in the US probably have no local vendors for these two. Please seek them out and give 'em a try. And Martin's was so very beloved by President Clinton that he had them served on Air Force One. I think his fav was the ripple bbq. I can tell you, they are ok, but get the real kettle cook'd (as the lable says.)

I very seldom eat Potato Chips...but when I do, I LOVE to use Cottage Cheese as a Dip, and by far the Kettle Brand stands up to the scooping up of the Cottage Cheese. I grew up in a town that had a Laura Scudder's potato chip factory, EVERYBODY would roll down the car windows when you got close to the plant, the smell was AWESOME.

Ugh. The Eric Estrada comment made me feel so old but clearly lost on most of the audience.

3 out of 4 chips are sold in the Eastern US, hard to find them out in the Western US.

Tim's Cascade style potato chips. Thick crunchy and better than any of those East coast chips.

That Erik Estrada joke was actually pretty good - but the audience is way too young. Amusing confused looks, however.

From Michigan: Better Made Rainbow old fashioned Dark potato chips. I am a 80yo woman who remembers when chips came light and dark in one bag. I would pick out the dark. Now I can buy all dark in one bag. There is no other flavor for me.

Lay's lightly salted is the only chip to get. It's what regular Lay's USED to be in the 70's before they made them so salty you couldn't eat them.

2:49 “The good news is you can eat 40% more potato chips.” Well, Bridget _can_ but the _better_ news is she can eat *66%* more potato chips if she’s looking to just about equal the fat content of the non-reduced fat variety.

Miss Vicky’s kettle cooked are my favorite

Both Herr's and Utz are manufactured near my home in south central PA. When I was younger I preferred the thin crispy Herr's. They are however salty at 7% of recommended daily allowance for sodium. I now prefer a thicker chip and Utz makes the ones I prefer. They also have a lower sodium content. I must admit though that my favorite chip is made by a smaller local company, Good's (in the blue and white bag, there is another Good's in a red and white bag, the chip of my childhood) they fry their chips in lard which lends a whole additional flavor. They are so good. The way chips were originally made.

She could eat ~66% more. Example: 100 decreased by 40% = 60. 60 must be increased by ~66% to return to 100.

You havent tried Tim’s of Washington state. Yukon gold potatoes, the best.

I once ate a chip that had such a wonderfully potatoey flavor. I had tossed out the bag and forgot the brand. They had been on sale. I have been trying to find them ever since. It's the delicious potatoey flavor that made all the difference.

The best chips ever made were Cape Cod "Robust Russet." All the chips were like the over-browned chips you may find in a regular bag of chips. They were so-o-o flavorful. For some reason, they are no longer available. A close second were Costco's Kirkland brand Tri-colored chips made from purp,le, red and regular potatoes which are also not longer available. No other chips come close to these, IMO. Sure wish they would come back on the market.

Give me a bag of Ruffles. That's all I need,, and want. The Walmart* and Kroger versions are just as good as the Lays version.

Snyder's of Berlin , another Pennsylvania goodie , not to be confused with Snyder's of Hanover , some people's fave Wise chips ,

I live on Cape Cod and was surprised they didn't seem to be represented in the taste test. They are my second favorite chip, my favorite is Zapp's Crawtators or the Voodoo blackened, which are both incredible.

Tim's Cascade Potato chips in the Pacific NW is the local favorite, bursting with flavor, crispness, texture. They offer many different flavors.

This live studio audience format is weird as hell

So what about the traditional bag of Lay's? Love those

I saw this video 2-3 weeks ago. I'm originally from NJ and grew up eating Wise potato chips. Now I'm out here in the Seattle area, Tim's Cascade Crunch chips and Kettle Chips are in my cupboard. Yum!

Love these taste test.

Omg, my freakin kryptonite. With a pint of sour cream, I can undo a month in the gym in a single sitting...do they put crack in the chips? 😐😉

I drive by the Better Made factory every day on my way to work. This comparison made me sad they were not included.

For St. Patrick's Day I make Irish Nachos with Kettle Chips instead of tortilla chips. They hold up to the same toppings and are unexpected.

My favorite chips are Lays Lightly Salted Chips

the Kettle brand's jalapeno flavored chips are a game changer

Utz regular chips are my favorite! Great potato flavor, thin and delicate.

Ok. Why are you in MY MIND! Yes I needed to know what chip is BETTER than my fav.(regular Kettle), now I MUST try this delicious, reduced fat crunchity yum, yum. THANK YOU TEST KITCHEN.

YES! Having lived all over the USA, I can confirm that Utz are the best chips made. I worked from Maine to Maui and nobody can beat Utz. I was not paid to say that.

It's late, and I'm on a diet. Why am I watching videos about potato chips??? Damn that RU-vid algorithm!!!

Not sure anyone in the audience was old enough to know who Eric Estrada was......😂

Hello!!! Good to hear🥰 this . I’m a Potato lover, yummmm 😋

Take any of those chips, dump a bag on a baking sheet, and smoke them on a wood pellet grill for 40 minutes at 180°. Amazing!

Mrs. Vicky's chips are delicious

Grandma Utz Kettle-Style, cooked in lard. The best by far.

Love the Cape Cod chips, especially since it's local for me, and I've been on their tour! LOL!

Dieffenbach, Middleswarth, Hartleys, Herrs, Utz, and Gibbles are all Pennsylvania made potato chips. I love Lays potato chips some times. Dieffenbach, Grandma Utz Kettle chips and Gibbles all use lard to fry their chips.

The oil makes a HUGE difference. Some has a somewhat metallic taste.

Potato Chips are my weakness! The kettle cooked ones are the best!

Boulder Canyon Salt and Vinegar cooked in Avocado oil are the best chips I've had from the supermarket.

Kona brand potato chips from the Big Island of Hawaii are my favorite. As a kid growing up in New York I really liked Tommy Treat brand chips.

Living in Arkansas we usually only have 2 choices, Lay's or Great Value.

Why display 8 bags, and only taste 4..I see Wise up there, my favorite because it sells for $2, and it taste great..

Dulac brand potato chips were my favorite as a kid, especially every Friday morning at the Y after swim class. That really warmed me up in winter.

Utz and/or Herrs brand for me! Herrs also has some REALLY damn good flavors! they had a steak and worcestershire sauce flavor that is to absolutely die for but they only had them in the smaller bags and could only find them over the border in PA sadly...

It seems the best chips and pretzels in the U.S. originally came from south central Pennsylvania.

Lays potato chips are my favorite food in the whole wide world 🥰

it is super weird that there's a live audience for chip taste test panel, but then again I am actively engaged also

Your jokes make my heart melt

Eat 40% more? Brilliant!

Always loved Lays but lately every chip is blemished/burned at the edges. Also a lot of the chips look like they were made with inferior potatoes with notable brown spots .Lays has lowered their quality . Check it out for yourself.

Utz Potato Chips are the absolute best. I live down the street from the factory. Nothing like going to the factory and buying a fresh bag of Utz Chips.

My family always bought Utz potato chips since I can remember. I like how the packaging hasn't changed.

Are some of these brands specific to the east coast? I’ve not heard of Utz or Herr’s brands.

If you eat Zapp’s from New Orleans, but available nationwide, you be spoiled forever. ⚜️

I am impressed...by the fact that my favorite is the Utz Kettle Cooked Original too. Strangely, the supermarket near my job has a huge selection of Utz chips but NEVER the Kettle Original.

As always, they presented a bunch of brands that I have never seen in my grocery stores.

I love Dirty potato chips although they can be salty!!! And flavoured too

Also, Tim's make the best kettle chips on earth.

I love kettle brand chips. Maybe because it’s one of the more popular brands where I live in the PNW. Love them!

Up in Western Canada, Old Dutch consistently better than Lay's. That's both for regular and kettle cooked. However, Lay's corn chips are consistently better than Old Dutch.

You forgot Whole Foods 365 Everyday Value, Rippled Potato Chips. Probably the best chip I have found as I continue my lifelong search for the perfect chip. I know I am not alone. They are almost always sold out during corona virus times and I can always get the others.

Have never seen Herr's brand, and I've lived on both coasts. Only learned about Utz from relatives in the Midwest.

Besides my own I love UTZ they go good with a hot with mustard, onions and chili.🤗😊

Utz and Herr’s are difficult to obtain here in Minnesota. Would you mind testing brands that more of us can find?

Don't care for kettle chips, I like light chips not throwing stars.

Nobody has a guilty pleasure for Munchos? crazy

My favorite will always be Utz!!! Founded and made in my town of Hanover, PA

Heart Doctor is the real winner

Living in Maryland very close to the UTZ factory we eat a lot of them and we have been to the factory several times. I really do like the Cape Cod potato chips also.

How in the world could he say that the type of oil doesn't seem to matter?! Peanut is winner for a reason! The oil has a huge impact on the flavor of fried food.

My two favorites are Cape Cod original and Utz Kettle Cooked Smokin' Sweet BBQ.

West coast here, I’ve never heard of Utz, or Herrs. I’m a trucker, admittedly I don’t really buy potato chips, but I’m surprised that I have not heard of either of them.

I'd like to be an audience member and feign mild excitement for potato chips

Where and when is this being filmed?! I’m curious because it’s not allowed here in Canada right now 😅 also I feel like the chips were very subjective compared to normal things this channel reviews. Like best cooking pots and knives and the like.

I love folded potato chips. I have no idea why?

Lays lightly salted are my second fave!!

YEA, HERR'S!!

If you don't have real potatoes around and want mashed potatoes. Just take a bag of chips...hydrate them with milk and heat up the whole mash. Add sour cream...whatever.. You have mashed potatoes.

Kettle brand jalapeno chips are my go-to. Cape Cod salt and vinegar also high up on my list.

Haha! I win! I’ve been telling my friends for years, that UTZ kettle chips are hands down, the most delicious. I prefer the reduced fat version too. These chips have a nice potato taste and the right balance of salt and oil I only buy Utz kettle chips. If they don’t have them, I don’t buy any at all.