Microwave Potato Chips

A little radiation goes a long way.

Your microwave can be used for more than reheating coffee. It is far more versatile a device, for instance, you can make these fat-free potato chips (“crisps” for you British gentlepeople) in one with very little effort.

Ingredients

• 1 potato,
• sea salt, to taste
• any other seasoning or spice that you’d like to flavour the chips with.

Needed Equipment

• Microwave

Useful Equipment

• a mandoline –brilliant thing to have, even a sub-$20 will do
• a silicon sheet –for a non-stick surface in the microwave, I recommend the brand Silpat”

Directions

• Thinly cut the potato into even, 2-3 millimeter slices.
• Rinse the excess starch off the potato slices and shake/pat/spin off the excess water.
• Place the slices onto a non-stick microwave-safe (no metals!) sheet, without overlap.
• Microwave on high power for 2 minutes. This’ll remove a lot of the water in the potato and you’ll begin to see them browning.
• Flip the slices and microwave for another minute. Keep an eye on them while they’re in there to prevent burning.
• Remove any nicely browned chips.
• For any not fully done, zap on high in 10 second intervals until they too are browned.
• Season with salt, to your tastes, and/or any other thing really.