How To Make Crispy Oven Potato Chips

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This crispy oven potato chips recipe is super easy to make!

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You can load up a baking tray full of sliced potatoes and have them ready in 15 minutes. Much less fat than fried potato chips. So, are you ready to learn how to make crispy oven potato chips? Get ready to put it in the oven!

Homemade Oven Potato Chips Recipe

This recipe gets you crispy potato chips out of the oven. No need to fry them in oil. All you need to do is slice the potato chips equally thick. That way they cook the same and turn golden brown in roughly the same amount of time.

The easiest way to do this is to use a mandolin slicer. You can use a knife but the potato chips are usually much thicker.

It takes thicker chips longer to cook and they get less crispy when the center of the potato slices are thicker. So, try to cut them as thin as possible.

Oven Potato Chips Ingredients

To make this oven-baked potato chips recipe you only need two ingredients. So have them ready when you start:

Large potatoes – you can use Russet or Yukon gold potatoes
Vegetable oil

Preheat the baking tray in the oven while it preheats to 400℉/200℃.

Clean the potatoes and slice using a potato slicer, or mandoline slicer, or use a knife and cut 1/16 inch thick.

Put the slices in ice-cold water and leave them for 15 minutes. Drain and pat them dry using a clean kitchen towel.

Brush the potatoes on both sides with vegetable oil or spray them with cooking spray.

Take the baking tray out of the oven. Then line the tray with parchment paper or use a silicone baking mat. Line the baking with a single layer of potatoes put close together but not touching.

Return the baking tray to the oven and bake for 10 minutes. Take the baking tray out of the oven.

Season Potato Chips

You can serve potato chips as is or sprinkle them with salt. With some seasoning, you can add more flavor to your potato chips.

Sprinkle them as soon as you take them out of the oven. You can sprinkle them before baking but the seasoning can burn in the oven.

Great seasonings for potato chips:

How Long Do You Have To Bake Potato Chips?

It only takes 15 minutes to make homemade potato chips when you bake them at 400℉/200℃. Heat the baking tray so it is hot when you add the potatoes. Try to get even slices using a mandolin slicer.

You can put them close together on the tray as long as they are not overlapping or touching. Potato shrinks while baking so that is why you can fill up the tray.

How Do You Keep Homemade Chips Crispy?

Let them cool completely first so no moisture can get out while the chips are stored. If you store the potato chips warm you will get condensation that results in soggy potato chips.

When your potato chips have gone stale or lost their crunch you can revive the chips easily and extend their shelf life.

How To Store Homemade Potato Chips

When you make a big batch of chips you have several options to store these homemade potato chips:

Room temperature – when freshly baked you can store them perfectly at room temperature. Let them cool completely and store them in an airtight food container or a resealable bag. You can keep them for 3 to 4 days if not longer
Freezer – you can also store them in the freezer. Again, let them cool completely and store them in a freezer-friendly food container or resealable bag for up to 3 months

Do not store them in the fridge as there is a lot of moisture which will soften the chips.

Why Is Starch Bad For Potato Chips?

So why should you soak potatoes to remove starch before oven-baking? When you leave starch on your potatoes before baking them in the oven chances are you do not get golden crispy potato chips.

More Potato Recipes In The Oven

If you like this crispy oven potato chips recipe, take a look at these recipes as well:

Roasted small potatoes
Boiled potatoes in the oven
Potato gratin
Baked sweet potato in the oven

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Crispy Oven Potato Chips

Yield: 2

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Cook Time: 15 minutes

Additional Time: 15 minutes

Total Time: 35 minutes

This is an easy recipe to make crispy oven potato chips in 15 minutes. Less fat than fried potato chips. A great snack with fewer calories.

Ingredients

2 large potatoes
1-2 tablespoons vegetable oil

Instructions

Put a baking tray in the oven while it preheats to 400℉/200℃
Clean the potatoes and slice using a mandolin slicer or use a knife and cut 1/16 inch thick
Put the slices in ice-cold water and leave them for 15 minutes. Drain and pat them dry using a kitchen towel
Brush the potatoes on both sides with vegetable oil or spray them with cooking spray
Take the baking tray out of the oven. Line with parchment paper or use a baking mat
Line the baking mat with a single layer of potatoes put close together but not touching
Return the baking tray to the oven and bake for 10 minutes. Take the baking tray out of the oven
Use tongs to turn every slice then bake for another 5-7 minutes
Watch the baking tray as the chips can turn from golden to burned really fast
If slices are golden before the cooking time is done take them out
Remove the baking tray from the oven and sprinkle with your favorite seasoning
Let them cool for 5 minutes so they can crisp up further and serve