Kettle Cooked Potato Chips Original

What is it?

Old-fashioned kettle cooking gives these potato chips their thick, rigid crunch and uneven golden edges. Some chips show a bit of potato skin, which is pretty typical for the style. Ingredients are straightforward: sliced potatoes, vegetable oil, and salt. The seasoning stays light, so what you taste most is fried potato. Compared with the rest of H-E-B’s kettle-cooked line, this is the plain baseline version, with no added vinegar, spice, or barbecue coating. They’re batch-cooked in the kettle style rather than the thinner, more uniform chip format, so the texture is firmer and the break is louder.