Homemade Potato Chips? #potatochips #airfryer #homestead #healthyrecipes

Most store bought potato chips are FULL of unhealthy ingredients. Making your own at home is a much better alternative

Have you ever made homemade potato chips? You want to know how? Then this video is for you. So, let’s head out and grab some potatoes from a cool room. These potatoes are really going to shrink up when we cook them. So, we want some medium to large potatoes. Something about like this. But just look at this mess. I’ve got to get these potatoes preserved and organized. I’m going to leave my peelings on, so I will give the potatoes a quick little scrub. We want these slices to be as even as possible. This is going to allow for much more uniform cooking. The best thing I’ve seen for this is some sort of vegetable slicer. Now, I have this automatic one here, and it works pretty amazing. Now, I don’t know about you, but I can’t slice them that thin and uniform by hand. There’s hundreds of different ways to season chips. And you can go with something simple like one of them pre-blended up seasonings, but I like to make my own. So, I’m using some smoked paprika, chili powder, salt, and this brown sugar alternative. I don’t measure everything out. I just kind of roll with it. But, I will tell you the bulk of that barbecue flavor is going to come from this chili powder. I like to load mine into a bag. Now, I will tell you, I’ve tried this with and without oil, and I prefer not to use oil, but it just seems to work a little bit better. So, I’m going use a couple capfuls of avocado oil for a bag this size. Just toss the bag around a little bit to try to get good even coverage on there. Then add your seasoning in and repeat till you got good coverage with that. Also, to keep these as healthy as possible, I’m using my air fryer. I use the lowest temp possible. With my air fryer, that’s 300° and start with about 30 minutes, but you’re going to need to keep a good check on them. I like to open the lid about every 10 minutes and give them a good stir. That way, they’re not sticking together and they cook more evenly. I like to cook them till they just start to get crispy. Then I’ll shut the air fryer off and open up the lid and actually get more crunchy as they cool. If you cook them until they’re crispy, they will be overdone and they’ll taste burnt. When the batch is finished and they’ve cooled off some, but just listen to this crunch. So, I cooked five medium potatoes. And this is what I ended up with. Now, I ended up running this batch for 1 hour, stirring every 10 minutes. I cannot stress to you how important it’s going to be to stir and break apart these potatoes every 10 minutes to get them to cook properly. But play around with different flavors and find something that you like. Are these as addicting as some chips you find in the store? Maybe not. But you know what? They’re way healthier for you. No artificial flavors or preservatives, and you can make them right from your own backyard potatoes. So, do you air fry potato chips? Well, if not, be sure to give these a try.