Can store-bought potato chips really stand a chance against the brand name variety? According to Tasting Table's taste test, ...

I also learned that the best potato chips—like our 12 golden, ... Wirecutter writer Rachel Wharton describes the potato chip taste test. Lisa Fischer/NYT Wirecutter. Back to top.

The best have a delicate crunch, and taste like a fresh slice of real potato toasted to perfection. Bad chips are oily, under-toasted, crackly, tasteless — or mucked up with cloying added flavors.

I tried 11 different plain potato chips — Lay's, Kettle, Wise, Late July, Good Health, Cape Cod, Great Value, 365 and more — and one was clearly the best of the bunch.

Barbecue potato chips are among the most popular crisps around — or they can be. We tasted through some of the top brands and found that … not all chips are stellar picks.

If your household eats a lot of chips and salsa or you’re throwing a party, you might like to know that Xochitl tortilla chips are the best-value chips we got, at $6.29 per pound ($1.43 to $5.33 ...

Obviously, Grandma knows potato chips. After all, Utz doesn’t advertise them as a “PA Dutch chip tradition like no other” for nothing. What set these chips apart from the others is the flavor.