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Homemade Potato Chips

Recently i got a mandoline and i have no idea how i lived without this thing.  I love it.  One of the first things i did was to make these potato chips.  Again so easy and delicious.  You don't have to use a mandoline you can use a cheese slicer or even a food processor.  It's just a mandoline gets you…

By delishhh · From Open Recipes · 3 ingredients
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Homemade Potato Chips

Why it works: Potato and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,458 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Homemade Potato Chips

6 cups
Prep10 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

353Calories
5 gProtein
21 gFat
38 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Ranch1 tbsp (15g) dressing73

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By delishhh. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Potato + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,458 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Olive + ranchtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together144 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  3. Potato + ranchtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together48 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, ranch):

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Welsh onionfits better
  3. Cucumberfits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, ranch. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.