Potato Chips Industrial Production Development
Ever since the invention of potato chips in Saratoga, it bloomed quickly with constant improved technology in next decades.
George Crum opened his own restaurant that featured the thin, fried potatoes eventually in 1860. That’s Saratoga Chips. As word of the chips go out, other restaurants began to serve potato chips. It wasn’t long before potato chips were a staple at restaurants all over the country.
William Tappendon of Cleveland, Ohio, is credited with taking the potato chips out of restaurant and into the grocery stores. In 1895, he began selling potato chips to local grocers and turned his barn into the world’s first potato chips factory. During the early 1900s, several companies built large factories for mass production of potato chips. And the year
However, potato chips did not gain wide -spread popularity until the 1920s because of the inconvenience of storage and transportation. The early potato chips were packaged in barrels or tins which left chips at the bottom stale and crumbled. Laura Scudder began mass producing the frist potato chips packaged in wax paper bags in 1926. She had her workers take home sheets of wax paper to iron into the form of bags which were filled with chips next day. This pioneering method reduced crumbling and kept the chips fresh and crisp longer. This innovation, along with the invention of cellophane, allowed potato chips to become a mass market product. While in modern potato chips production, chips are packaged in plastic bags filled with nitrogen gas which can prevent oxidation reaction and provide protection against crushing