Looks great guys, I'm still out of town, I'm off in the woods in Canada I think? No clue how I have any cell signal, but I'll be back and operating after another 50 lbs of lobster, and 3 or 4 days.

P.S great job of spelling Fried mushy.

Just realized, we should start working on this, WHOS WITH ME!?

I feel this will set a bad legal precedent if it goes through. Bitcoin so far has been able to avoid any regulation, because it is deemed "play money" If there is a court case that recognized Bitcoin as a currency, prepare for incoming regulation.

I'll take the 3 you have for sale for 573 LTC each just like Bitcool.  

Buy with LTC option added.

I'v got 4 BTC. I think I could live off of that?

But the taste is still bad. So we are deciding to stay away from butter, but thanks for the suggestion.

As I said in the OP, the name is subject to change, it started with BuddyChips (after an inside joke) then ButterFried when we thought we could incorporate butter, because really, what doesn't taste better with butter? And for now, we will be changing it to BetterFried as we haven't found any practical use for butter yet.

I appreciate the donation, thank you very much.

As for the picture, it is just some salt that fell off the chips, the picture is very large, so tiny details are very obvious. I found to eliminate condensations, after cooking I leave the chips out on drying racks with paper towels to absorb any extra oil, as well as letting them cool, this prevents any condensation from occurring in the bag, and keeps the chips from getting soggy. I had a slight problem with one batch that I hastily put into a bag so that I could keep it away from various people that were intent on devouring my entire batch, and the chips didn't crisp up very well.


Well, when we were thinking up how to cook the chips and create their unique taste, we had though of adding actual butter, not butter flavoring. This lead to three major problems. 1. They were horrible, you don't want butter and oil mixed, very bad. and 2. It would effect their shelf life negatively, and 3. Butter is very expensive, especially if we were to add butter to every single chip.
So, as of now, there actually is no butter or butter flavor added to this chips at all, which leads us to believe that we will be changing the name of our chips to BetterFried instead of ButterFried.

Thanks for the concern though.

Since I removed the Donation address I have been getting PM's asking for a new donation address. We really appreciate the donations, as even .005 BTC or 1 LTC helps quite a bit towards testing new flavors, buying more materials, and cutting out of pocket start up costs. Even more than the donations, we are loving the support, its been a while since I'v seen people take a shine to an idea better than what we are getting now.

So if you would like to continue donating to the cause of having our miners fed with delicious and nutri... uhm, ok I'm not going to lie to you guys, we are going for taste and quality over heath benefits (isn't that how snacks should be?)  you can send Bitcoins to 12LC65tumCMB9jcCD8zEaCpJ6tAeQJLkmu

Or Litecoins (because we are a BTC/LTC business) to LXiKGc1MT4sPAiHddMgumLzpE2te5aXVBQ

Thanks guys, and just a quick update. Mush and I are working on the website, we will start sending out test samples to various BTC/LTC users, and hopefully upgrade to our professional production equipment ASAP.

The name is a parody (in good humor) of BFL, we in no way mean to mock them, nor imply we have any affiliation with BFL. We just figured that having a catchy name that sounds like an already established BTC business would help with our product catching on. Of course the #1 factor there is taste, which I'm quite sure our customers will be pleased with. Hell, I'm pleased with our product right now, and it isn't even finished yet.

I'm also glad the community as a whole is interested in food products. I mean, when you are sitting around, doing some BTC/LTC business, watching your computers generate money for you, why not indulge in a snack that your computer can generate?

P.S, its especially nice getting that kind of comment from another food product.

I should also say, we have made progress in all fields in general. New recipe as well as making them a bit better tasting by removing some excess cook time. We are still trying to improve, but you must admit, these look a helluva lot better than our first batch.

*edit* I should probably mention that the picture is a 1 gallon ziplock bag full of chips, about 3 lbs of potatoes down into chip form. Even my family and I haven't managed to make much of a dent in this bag just casually eating them over the course of a few days. I should also probably mention, they are just as crispy and as far from stale as you can possibly imagine as they were when they came straight out of the fryer, minus the hot. I have eaten nearly 12 lbs of potato chips since beginning testing, and I can honestly say, Lays and Utz just don't do it for me any more.

No, you should probably delete the file

Thanks for all of the suggestions, guys. I'm not sure how we will go about having the chips professionally tested, but I'll do some research into it. I was going to start sending test samples out to a few buddies last weekend (8/4 , 8/5) but I had a minor mishap with my fryer, and will be upgrading shorty as I mentioned earlier) Too add on to the BFL tradition, On top of that, I will be leaving for vacation for about a week so there will be another slight postponement, but don't fret, progress is being made, and these chips will be a reality soon enough. Maybe I'll even get some work done while on vacation. I'll be heading up to Maine into potato country, so you never know, I might find myself a supplier.

Right now, I'm working on trying to get the chips to brown up a bit less, they are by no means burnt, but they are a bit browner than I'd like. I'm hoping a new cooking technique, as well as a new and improved fryer will help with that.

My cost analysis will come about when I send my samples to a few people, as I am unsure of the best way to ship them as of now to avoid shipping costs. I went to the post office, and realized the $5 flat rate boxes are anything but a good deal, I would be hard pressed to fit a 1 oz single snackbag in one of those, so I will be looking into other options.

Along with all of this, Mush and I will be working on a site shortly, so as I said, progress is being made.

Well, I'm just speaking from experience, I have never gotten the raw end of the deal through paypal, I'm not sure why everyone seems to always have problems with paypal, but I never have. (Maybe Aussy Paypal is better than elsewhere?)

I'v purchased BTC with Paypal no problem, I'v sold virtual items with paypal, and had a few disputes, in which case, I just sent them screen shots of our chat longs (agreement to buy virtual game items) and then them agreeing that they received the item or items again on the sites chat log. Paypal gave my $ back within a few minutes, and the other persons had their accounts closed.

Maybe the difference is having a business account vs a regular account?

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Please note: PayPal's consumer protection programs only apply to tangible, physical goods which can be shipped, and excludes everything else, including but not limited to: intangibles, services


The one where it says you can't buy/sell virtual items. Its not that they hate BTC, its that they hate having to file through claims of things that can't easily be proven, so they just banned it.

You also aren't allowed to sell game items, your soul, that kind of thing.


The way to get around Paypal chargebacks is to give the buyer a physical thing. How people sell BTC on paypal is they might right down a code to redeem BTC, but they also send them a button, or a pin, or something worthless, but then when they get the notice that paypal is charge backing them, they have Ebay shipping confirmation, Shipping confirmation from the post office, and proof of delivery.

Ok, I think I need to state this, as this is fairly important. Although I said I like the other LTC forum better at this point, I would like to note we really shouldn't be splitting between forums. All LTC forum users need to go to one forum. We don't have enough of a user base that we can afford to split, and its going to be a huge pain in the ass if we are divided this early.

Honestly what we need is another BCX fiasco, it brought us all together. So I say thanks BCX

Not that I will question your decision, but the other forums is much better. Its a lot more stable and doesn't have nearly as many issues ( I will be pming greedi about the issues I found with his forum) Its navigation isn't great, and it lacks a great design.

That being said, I will be using the official, and hopefully we can get a few things fixed up.

Bump

I'm in Maryland, so I know what you are talking about. I will definitely be offering these, as they are a Maryland tradition.