Oh My ... insert your favourite exclamation here. This mix has been 18 months in the making to get the carbs on these lower, lower low using food science techniques. The reason why we are so over the moon, is that the #1 food that people miss dreadfully when going low carb is hot chips! So it's a fantastic problem to have solved :)

What we love: 
• They taste like potato because the main ingredients are potato and a touch of natural sea salt, which always makes any hot potato chip taste even better.
• You can shape the dough this mix makes however you like - skinny fries, regular hot chips, potato tots, hash browns. Simply adjust your cooking times and light oil spray before or during baking to get them golden brown. 
• 100g mix makes 350g of finished chips, enough to actually share with other people, if you're kind :) 
• Chips, once press-cut, can also be frozen giving you fast food, whenever you like later.  
• Fast food hot chips are the single #1 food that everyone misses when reducing their carbs and with this mix, that desire is truly sorted. 

Lower carbs aren't the only gain - the higher fibre fast food is. 
Fibre is much slower energy releasing, so you benefit from lower carbs plus you gain from a slow releasing food source for a healthier stomach biome, and your blood sugars can also relax.  

In simplified terms we started with a traditionally high starchy carb product (potato) then followed food science heating and cooling to convert the starchy carbs into non-digestible prebiotic dietary fibres. Scientifically speaking there's a whole lot of technical food science principles and processes involved like gelatinisation, retrogradation and syneresis. Unlike me though, there's no need to keep you up late at night figuring it out. 

The upshot is all the ingredients are from natural sources, and the heating and cooling is also done naturally. We've simply cracked the science to produce this holy grail in Keto Food substitutes: Low carb, high fibre Hot Potato Chips aka Fries. 

Ingredients: Potato with Modified Starch, Sea Salt 
Made in New Zealand from local and imported ingredients.

Macros per 100g when made: Energy 247kJ, Protein 2.3g, Fat 0.3g, Saturated 0.1g, Carbs 4.5g, Sugars 0.2g Dietary Fibre 15g, Sodium 15mg 

How to make 
1• Heat 250ml water to 80°C (a digital thermometer is handy for this)
2• Shake the 100g bag of dry mix before adding to the hot water, then stir
3• Cover and rest for 5 minutes
4• While warm, slightly compress the mixture to desired chip thickness
6• Press-cut with a knife (try not to slice or drag the knife) to get your desired size of chip.
7• Refrigerate the cut fries in a single layer for 30 minutes to firm up before cooking.
For frozen fries, store them in a container in the freezer in single layers until ready to cook.

Guidance on cooking methods
Please note the following times, temperatures and techniques are a guide and will vary depending on how thick or thin you shape your hot chips as well as how your appliances function. Please take the following as a suggestion that still needs your fine tuning.

Air Fryer: Lightly spray racks and the chips with oil, before placing with gaps around for air flow. Air fry at 150°C for 8 minutes, then turn and lightly spray again. Cook at 180°C in 2 min increments until golden.

Oven: Preheat to 180°C. Line a tray with baking paper, spray chips lightly with oil. Bake for 15-18 minutes and keep your eye on them at the end to ensure they become golden, and not overdone.

Oil Fry: No need to pre-spray the chips, use a high smoke point oil or rendered fat suitable for deep frying (like duck fat, lard, ghee or tallow). Place single fries in 200°C oil with care. Making batches is better than over-crowding which lowers the temperature of the oil. To drain off any excess oil, place a paper towel beneath a rack and place golden cooked chips on top. When cooked fries are placed directly on a paper towel, steam is trapped making the chips go soggy.  

Number of serves & sizes: this 100g packet makes 350g of hot chips
A standard serve of hot chips is 100g, so you'll get 3.5 serves per packet. 
McDonalds fries: a large serve weighs 150g, medium is 114g and the small portion of fries is 80g
A scoop of chips in a takeaway shop is typically 330g

Other products that taste amazing with these Hot Chips: 
Tomato Sauce        Chicken Salt       Mingle Chippy Salt

A special shout out 
We'd like to give Emmerson a shout out, as she was instrumental in running so many tests over a prolonged period of time with so many combinations of ingredients and methods. There were far too many tests that needed to be done for just me to cope with and I changed my mind about so many different ingredients and processes before landing on what worked best. The tips and techniques, temperatures and times suggested have all been fine tuned by her. Well done, we say!