Fried or baked.
Kettle chips. Because they are baked, potato chips are fried.
Standard potato chips are greasy because they are fried. But you can now get baked potato chips that have no fats or oils.
Pork rinds are not potato chips. They are fried pig skin and are mostly fat and protein.
In England, 'chips' are chunks of potato, which can be baked or fried, and eaten hot. 'Fries' typically refer to thinner US-style chips. 'Crisps' are potato slices which can also be baked or fried, typicaly seasoned and eaten as a snack. Ultimately, whatever name is used, it's all to do with baking or frying bits of potato.
The difference is that potato chips have more fat in them, and also are more greasy that tortilla chips. Tortilla chips have salt but they aren't very greasy. Many people prefer potato chips better than tortilla.
chips that are not dry or roasted such as apple chips, banana chips, are fried in oil. potato chips are potato shavings that are fried in oil to give them that crunchy texture and delicious flavor. all the fat is held in the oil which is absorbed by the potato. if you look on a chip package sometimes it will say baked chips, or roasted. then it would not have been fried in oil. go to www.calorieking.com for the fat and nutritional contents of any food you can think of ;-)
Because they're fried in oil. Potato chips are greasy because companies use oil on the potato slices to help make them crispy when they are fried or baked. It also adds delicious flavor!
it is a type of that are not fried or baked.
Potato chips are deep fried and have high calorific value with more energy than boiled or baked potatoes that have no added hydrocarbons in fried oil.
slow cooked potato chips in small kettles using either safflower and/or sunflower oil
Potato chips make you fat easily because it is deep fried in fat. One bag of medium sized potato chips has 290 calories and about 160 calories from fat. So, yes, potato chips do makes you fat if you consume quite often in your diet.