How do they get the vinegar taste in salt and vinegar potato chips?

[gfweb]

It can't actually be liquid acetic acid which is both liquid and volatile. What's fooling the tongue into thinking vinegar is there?

[Edward J]

Dehydrated vinegar

[MikeHartnett]

Yep. Powder.

[dcarch]

A little vitamin C powder to give sour taste.

dcarch

[gfweb]

Potatoes, sunflower oil, salt and vinegar seasoning (flavorings, sea salt, maltodextrin, maltic acid, citric acid, sugar, dried yeast extract (yeast extract, salt). are the ingredients of one brand. I guess its the citric and perhaps maltic acids as D'carch said.

Acetic acid is somewhat volatile, I'm not sure that you could get much if you dehydrated an aqueous solution. From my lab days, I don't ever recall seeing powdered HOAc in any of the catalogs. Any organic chemists out there?

edited to add

here's another with vinegar powder

Potatoes, safflower and/or sunflower and/or canola oil, vinegar powder (maltodextrin, white distilled vinegar), sea salt, maltodextrin, citric acid.

Edited October 3, 2013 by gfweb (log)

[HungryChris]

http://www.myspicesage.com/apple-cider-vinegar-powder-p-1300.html?gclid=CPeRnZD3-rkCFeoWMgod3hUA1w

HC

[gfweb]

http://www.myspicesage.com/apple-cider-vinegar-powder-p-1300.html?gclid=CPeRnZD3-rkCFeoWMgod3hUA1w

HC

Interesting. I wonder how much acetic acid is really there.

[rotuts]

maltodextrin,

I wonder if this acts as some sort of carrier of 'flavor'. I have a "mesquite seasoning" from Sauer's

its hydroscopic and solidifies after a while. on the ingredient list is: "mesquite smoke flavor ( maltodextrin, mesquite smoke flavor)"

[gfweb]

I could see the hygroscopic stuff trapping the vinegar and being able to be a somewhat sticky powder.

[GlorifiedRice]

Target sells jarred Salt and Vinegar powder its all Malic Acid

[huiray]

http://www.seriouseats.com/2012/09/the-best-salt-and-vinegar-chips-tasting-brands-most-acidic.html

[rotuts]

Interesting. very interesting. thanks huiray.

[gfweb]

Yes indeed. Thanks.

[rotuts]

sooooooo ..............

we go out and get a few LBS of maltodextrin and impregnate it with flavors of our choice?

[gfweb]

Beer chips!

[rotuts]

Martini chips

Gin Chips

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[heidih]

As Huiray noted above Serious Eats stated in an article that it varies among the brands with acetic, malic, lactic and fumaric being the options. http://www.seriouseats.com/2012/09/the-best-salt-and-vinegar-chips-tasting-brands-most-acidic.html

If you are trying to make your own, a number of the on-line recipes have you soak the potato slices in vinegar. I have used that method to flavor canned chickpeas for roasting.

[Michael S.]

Maltodextrin will also suck up fats, allowing you to make bacon flavoured powder using the rendered fat.

[gfweb]

OK. I have obtained a quantity of maltodextrin. Looking at various websites, the flavored maltodextrin products seem pretty chunky...not the dry powder that one might spread over a potato chip...even after pushed thru a tamis.

Any ideas how to make the oil-impregnated maltoD into a fine powder?

[FeChef]

OK. I have obtained a quantity of maltodextrin. Looking at various websites, the flavored maltodextrin products seem pretty chunky...not the dry powder that one might spread over a potato chip...even after pushed thru a tamis.

Any ideas how to make the oil-impregnated maltoD into a fine powder?

You were better off buying vinegar powder. Maltodextrin + vinegar isnt very strong in flavor. I find you end up tasting the maltodextrin more then the flavor your trying to impart. Bacon grease + maltodextrin is a perfect example. I had to use so much maltodextrin to make a dry powder that all i tasted was a funky sweet greasy powder.

[gfweb]

OK. I have obtained a quantity of maltodextrin. Looking at various websites, the flavored maltodextrin products seem pretty chunky...not the dry powder that one might spread over a potato chip...even after pushed thru a tamis.

Any ideas how to make the oil-impregnated maltoD into a fine powder?

You were better off buying vinegar powder. Maltodextrin + vinegar isnt very strong in flavor. I find you end up tasting the maltodextrin more then the flavor your trying to impart. Bacon grease + maltodextrin is a perfect example. I had to use so much maltodextrin to make a dry powder that all i tasted was a funky sweet greasy powder.

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