I'm nearly 50 and I've been reading cookbooks and recipes and food magazines and the Internet for a very long time and I've never seen a recipe for Crispy Potato Chips from the microwave. I've learned over the years not all recipes are trust worthy. They don't all work out, they taste bland or yucky or somehow do not live up to my expectations. I know that some of those failures are my fault but not all of them.
I've come to trust some web sites and cookbooks more than others so when I read a recipe on one of my favorite reliable sites yesterday I didn't hesitate to try their potato chip on this site. I was not disappointed.
Crispy thin and lightly salty chips. Anyone can make these, anyone with a mandolin* that is. Could you cut these thin enough with a knife? Someone could but not me and I'm pretty good with a knife so I would recommend using the dusty slicer or mandolin in your cupboard or borrowing your foodie neighbors. A true "foodie" would be so excited to loan it and show you how to use it. If she's like me she'll use it for you because she is so excited someone else likes food as much as she does, at least for the moment.
Because I had a sweet potato in the cupboard I tried one of those too. The results were as good as I hoped. Since it only makes a plateful at a time I suggest making only one kind cause they will get eaten by you or others as fast as you can get them off the plate.
I can see so many ways to experiment with these I can hardly sleep.
Try them. Your family won't believe you made them and there is great joy in that for some reason.
*Don't have access to a mandolin? Check the note at the end of the recipe for a trick to make these without it.
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