When the 16-Year-Old Boy Experiments in the Kitchen...

...Things usually turn out all right! Case in point...homemade potato chips.

He came home and announced that he would be making potato chips. I was thrilled. We needed to use the potatoes in the food storage room anyway and it was a much better way to spend his time than playing the XBOX. I told him I would look up a recipe, but he held up his hand, saying he would come up with on from his own head. I suggested that he use the cheese grater to cut the potatoes, as it has a long, thin hole for slicing things in, well, a long, thin shape and he agreed that it was a good idea. He asked if he should peel them, and I told him the peels were good for you, so how about you leave them on? He said he didn't care what was good for him, but he left them on anyway. He cut them out, then laid them on a cookie sheet to bake...


I suggested that most potato chips are fried in oil, so he might want to go that route, and he said, "oh yeah, but I'll bake these, too. There will be two kinds." I thought that was a great idea.

Here's how he fried them in hot oil...


Here's how they were salted. (The thirteen-year-old girl had to stand in for this photo. The teenage boy said that he would not pose and said, "You can't just NOT take pictures, can you." I said, no, I can't.)


Check one out up close...


They were crisp, perfectly salted and delectable! He's taking them to school tomorrow. Ladies, watch out...

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