Kettle Chips Create-a-Chip Kit

After using easy at home kits to make my own hot sauce and brew my own beer, I decided to take on the task of making my own potato chips. So I purchased the Kettle Chips Create-a-Chip Kit and went to town. While the kit itself isn't anything special, making your own flavored chips at home is extremely easy and can be very fun.

What You Get in the Kit

The Kettle Chips Create-a-Chip Kit only costs between $10 and $15 depending on if there is a sale or not. You can get the kit straight from their website, located at www.buykettlechips.com. Here is what you get when you purchase the kit:

-3 large bags of Kettle Chips: Tuscan Three Cheese, Buffalo Bleu and Spicy Thai

-4 small bags unseasoned chips

-7 pouches of spices: Roasted tomato, sweet chili, vinegar, sour cream and chive, lemon butter, caramelized onion and cheddar

-Sample recipe ideas

Making Your Chips

As the kit explains, the three large bags of Kettle Chips are "for inspiration". Really though they are the highlight of the kit. Their chips are amazingly flavorful and you can never go wrong by having three large bags of those around the house (except for when you're trying to eat healthy, in which case you can very quickly go very wrong).

Making your own chips is extremely simple, almost too simple, for something that's included in a "make your own" kit. All you do is open up a bag of unseasoned chips, pour in the seasonings you want to include and shake it around. Tada!

Some of the recipe suggestions they include also call for various additional ingredients, and we liberally added parmesan cheese (the best condiment in the world) to our creations. But the most fun is just mixing and matching different flavors and seeing what you come up with.

The main disappointment with the Create-a-Chip Kit was that the bags of unseasoned chips are tiny. They hardly had any chips inside of them, so you use them up very quickly. In the end, you're left with a lot of unused spices and flavors.

To make up for this, we used the extra seasonings to make some tasty popcorn. Some could also be used to make various dips or sauces (I'm sensing some synergy the next time I make up some hot sauce!). Of course, you could also make your own potato chips completely from scratch and then use the seasonings on them. Regardless, be prepared to have extra seasonings as a result of not having too many unflavored chips to work with.

You can also enter your chip creations into the Create-A-Chip Challenge located at www.kettlechipchallenge.com.

Is the Create-a-Chip Kit worthwhile?

Even though you don't get many chips to use with the seasonings, the Create-a-Chip Kit is still worth the cost. Really you are paying for the already made Kettle Chips, which are great, and you get the added bonus of a fun activity. For $10 or $15 there isn't much to lose either way.