Well, heres a pic of the first bag. The scale reading is 4.39 oz, and the bag is a quart sized bag.

https://i.imgur.com/2BA9J.jpg

Those chips sitting outside the bag, have actually been sitting out for about 9 hours now, and are still fresh and good tasting. I actually don't think regular Lay's potato chips stay fresh that well when just left out, so I have hope!

Ok, so good news, like an ordinary chip, you can leave them out exposed to air for awhile without them getting stale *edit* we are up to 9 hours or so now. I'm not sure how much longer it will take before those that I left out get stale, but that's a good sign anyway.

We are still checking the best feasible way to ship them. Food vacuum sealer bags would be the best option, but they are quite expensive, and at this point, we are trying to keep expenses low, so we are checking out how well standard Ziplock bags work.

And I should also mention, we will accept Litecoins as well as Bitcoins as payment for chips, when we set up pricing, amounts available, etc after we have finished all necessary testing.

But isn't this what a large portion of bitcoin users are? To an extent anyway.

I don't think you can sell them.

Ok, a little bit of research yielded some info about shelf life. Just in a ziplock bag, they should maintain 100% freshness/taste for about a week. If they are sealed, about 3 weeks. 3 weeks sounds good to me, so I will start seeing how to vacuum seal them without crushing them.

Also for shipping concerns. I am about 95% sure these chips should have no issues with being shipped. They are very resistant for chips, I suppose due to their size. I shook them violently in a paper bag, and not a single chip broke.

As well as testing shelf life on them, we are also starting to try to figure out what increments to sell them in. I'm thinking we will just sell them by ounce with there being a minimum purchase order, of whatever makes economical sense. So for example you could order 3, 3.5, 5, 10 oz, 8 kilos, 800 lbs! What I mean is, you can pick your own increments.

to put it in perspective, the large single serving bags, that you get at a grocery store is 1.5 oz, with the huge bags being 11 oz.

I will say on the matter, I don't entirely buy into either side. I will say though, after reading through everything, Evolve you seem to be the most butt hurt here. Everyone is trying to make points, for both sides, and you do little but call them idiots. If you want to win a debate you should probably try implying that they are idiots with facts.

1. I believe that the Lil Wayne and Madonna things are coincidences, if there was some odd conspiracy going on, why would "the government" or whoever was staging it want anyone to be in on it.

2. I know for a fact, that all movie theaters are mandated to have security cameras, a few friends and I found that out the hard way, so I'm a bit curious as to why more videos haven't come up, but I'll give it a few days to a week.

3. The lack of stretchers as the ambulance responds is one of the most alarming parts to me. I'v seen ambulances prep before the call, as I have some family that works for a small town EMT/Fire Department, and if there is any doubt they they would need a stretcher, they bring them. Most of the time they have one or two with them at all times, but in a shooting case, they would bring more than multiple.

4. The witnesses are obviously lying, or over dramatizing, but I wont put it past that they are just enjoying their time on T.V

5. The "staged" photos, I don't really buy into that. If someone was actually behind this whole thing, they would sure as hell make sure that its as believable as possible, they wouldn't let that kind of thing leak. People smile when they are relieved, they could have just been happy to get out of there.

there are a lot of points that can go on both sides, more interpretations will air, and more evidence will come out for both parties. Is there a motive to stage this sort of thing? Sure. Could it be done? Sure. Was it done? Maybe. I will say the story seems a whole lot more fishy than most other stories of the type.

Good suggestion, but my room temperature is about 86-90 degrees, so I think that should suffice. But we will make sure we have all senarios covered before shipping out bad chips


Funny you should mention that, we are actually thinking of changing the name all together, because as of now, we haven't been able to incorporate butter in any way. If you add butter before cooking, it messes with the oil, and under the right conditions will catch fire. If you add the butter after cooking, then the chips are greasy. We are thinking about BetterFried Chips, or BetterFried Bags would work too.

Anyway, I appreciate the support, name/flavor suggestions, and all the love from the community. Our next test that may be the most important, is testing the shelf life. I took 31 chips and put them into a ziplock bag, and I will just be leaving them on my counter sealed. Every day I will eat one, and hopefully find out how long these chips can safely be stored at room temperature before the taste begins to change. I'm hoping it will be at least two weeks, as these chips will be made to order, they won't be sitting around besides in transit time, and hopefully giving you well over a week to eat them. It would be very nice if they stayed fresh longer than that, and I'm sure I can change the time with vacuum sealing, and other methods, but we will not be adding any preservatives.

We are trying to figure out the best way to ship them, and how many we can ship for what costs, we will try and figure this out in the next day or two.


We are being interviewed by Steve Jobs as we speak.

Alrighty, testing day 2 begins. We have what we believe to have perfected our "SHA 256" SaltnPepper chip and our original salt chip after hundreds of batches. We are now changing how the potatoes are sliced, going more for the traditional circle cut instead of the long cut, as we believe that they will cook a bit more evenly this way. I will honestly say, these are the best chips I'v ever had. As for how they taste, think about boardwalk cut french fries, but chips instead of fries, I would say they are similar to that, but with a better seasoning mix. We may or may not work on fixing the "special chips" today, but we will be looking for a more viable method of getting the correct shapes and pictures on them.

As a black jewish little person I find this very offensive

I appreciate the tips, but I think we will be alright during shipping. We put a batch of chips into a big brown paper grocery bag, and shook the hell out of it, and no chips broke. The difference between our chips is, they are much thicker than lays for example. If you feel like pulling out a ruler, our chips are about 30 millimeters, so there is actually a noticable thickness, but of course we will test it, before shipping them out. 

Well I appreciate your input. I suppose we could create "adult toys" from potatoes, but I can see that going very badly, so we will just stick to chips.

Ok! Picture time, here's the progress so far. Sorry if the pictures are big, but don't they look good?

Heres what we started with:
https://i.imgur.com/FH7l5.jpg

we then went to step two, slicing
https://i.imgur.com/e0NKV.jpg

Then we need to soak the slices, this removes excess starch, and makes the chips crispy
https://i.imgur.com/k8aeY.jpg

Then you need to dry them before adding them to the hot oil (water and hot oil doesn't mix well)
https://i.imgur.com/AB4BU.jpg

This is the first introduction of potato to fryer
https://i.imgur.com/smOMG.jpg

So the cooking begins
https://i.imgur.com/chMqF.jpg

The final product, cooked a little bit more than we planned, but they were delicious.
https://i.imgur.com/BzaLm.jpg

And as promised, we will be making chips in shapes and with images, Mush cut this one with a knife, but we will be using a stencil to cook on an image rather than cut, but this was the first attempt.
https://i.imgur.com/teygd.jpg

And here's how it turned out, not quite perfect, but it was the first try. And yes, I should be a hand model
https://i.imgur.com/QlWKr.jpg

Mush here, making chips now, about to post some pictures, we made a special bitcoin chip. Anyway, yes we will ship them internationally if you are willing to pay the price for shipping, I'm not sure on the details of sending snacks overseas, or how well they will fair (you dont want to eat chip dust obviously) but we will look into it. On a side note, I will say that the chips seem pretty hearty, because they are thicker than standard chips.

Is anyone interested in buying some right now? We could ship out a few batches, but please post here soon, so we can make them.

So far they taste great, but they come out a bit burnt, but seriously these are way better than any chips I've had so far. Right now we are trying out the SHA256 Salt N Pepper flavor, and its awesome.

Anyway, if you would like to order some please POST HERE, and we will respond to you ASAP (salty is making chips as I write this) The pictures will be up within the hour, most likely in 20-30 minutes.

I'm loving all of the creative names and flavors being tossed out, keep them coming.

They all sound good. The only one on there that we will not be attempting is the Calamari rig flavored. Seafood flavorings are very hard to create naturally, and normally require actual dried powdered seafoods. I don't want to mess around with that kind of thing, due to the risk of sending someone into anaphylactic shock due to a seafood allergy.

I can even see trying the fudge kind. Whats better than a treat thats sweet, salty, and crunchy? (I may have described a chocolate covered pretzel, but chocolate chips would do the same, and be better in my opinion)

Oh, and just an update, the process is in motion, pictures will be coming up asap as well as various test info.

We will be offering different cuts, depending on how you like your chips ie different thicknesses, and the option to ask for unseasoned, light, normal, or heavy on whichever seasoning we will be using, for each variety we will be offering.

Right now we are about to start work on figuring cook times, chip thicknesses, etc, by trial and error of course, as thats the most delicious method. Then once we have figured out the basics, we will move onto simple seasonings, such as the classic salted or salted and peppered chip, and finding the most pallet pleasing amounts of seasoning. Then we will start working on our different seasonings. I will start uploading pictures as we get cooking. We and our test group are preparing to eat a lot of chips.


We don't honestly believe we can compete with the large companies, our goal is to become a regional chip, such as Utz. But what we are hoping to do is establish a niche. Our chips will be made from much better quality materials, therefor they are much more delicious. An extra cost does come across, but there is always a time when you need a better quality chip. Also, all of our materials will be coming direct from the local grocery store, so if the consumer cares, they can feel better knowing they won't be eating various chemically engineered flavors.

Testing will begin today, we will try and keep you updated as to what we are doing.

I got 917, don't know what they do, or how many were issued, but I'v sure got them.