Soda Potato Chips

This week's theme is single-vegetable snacks!


This recipe is from a few months ago. It turned out so badly I didn't get around to posting it. And since this is a blog for cooking disasters, that means it turned out BAAAAAAAD.

I had potatoes that were going to go bad and I had to find a use for them.

I've done (or badly tried to make) crispy things before, so I thought, why not make potato chips?

With a soda-flavored batter.

You can see how this will end.

So I start on the batter, with flour and eggs.

Adding in some salt and pepper.

Mixed together.

 Now comes the soda.

Aaaaaaand I mix it in and it looks like someone really sick drank a bunch of soda and then threw it up.

It's a little thinner than I was hoping, but too late to turn back now. Here come the potato slices.

The batter didn't stick. But it was too late to turn back, so I dump it into a frying pan...

And the result is predictable.

Yeah. Pink dough and raw potato.

These were so bad I couldn't eat them. The "batter" didn't taste like soda and the potatoes were still raw-tasting.

I had so many slices I couldn't just throw them out. I decided to try adding cheese with the idea cheese makes anything edible.

I think broiling is good for melting cheese, but don't quote me on that.

With cheese they were a little better but in the end I think it would have been better to just eat the cheese and throw out the potatoes and nasty batter.