After enjoying Kettle Brand’s salted chips, we were interested to see how these thick chips would taste with some seasoning thrown on them. It seems all chips now come in a sea salt and vinegar variety, so we were interested to see how Kettle Brand’s Sea Salt and Vinegar Chips would hold up against some of their premium style brethren?
Kettle Brand is not shy at all about what comes in their premium bag (with previously covered plastic interior). The Sea Salt and Vinegar Chips come in a sea-blue bag which welcomes you not with a smell of the sea, but a nice, not overwhelming, vinegar smell.
The chips themselves didn’t have the same brown edges as their plain cousins, they also seemed to be completely lacking the salt part of the “sea salt.” In terms of the vinegar, the taste was pretty sour, but not in a way that makes you pucker or suffer and actually leaves you somehow wanting more. They are also mildly bitter.
While eating them, however, my friends and I complained that they weren’t great, yet found ourselves going back for more. I think this is a testament to the chips themselves – which Kettle manages to make both thick and crunchy like the standard ones. They were also quite large and all of them were intact (a rare feat that is probably partially due to their double layer bag).
The combination of a mild, sourish taste leaves us no choice but to say these are a step down from plain and give Kettle Brand Sea Salt and Vinegar Chips an average grade. There are other very tasty sea salt chips out there so go for them first or get the standard salt variety Kettle chips instead.
Tags: crunchy, kettle cooked, Made in the USA, potato-y, sea salt, thick, vinegar
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