Ahh.. the potato chip. The smallest of slices of true Americana. We all have our favorite flavors. Are you a BBQ fan, maybe Salt & Vinegar or Cheese & Onion is more your style? How about spicy ketchup potato chips? Or cinnamon poached pear potato chips? Starting to get a bit confused? Well, if you’ve never heard of such crazy potato concoctions yet… get ready for the Create-a-Chip challenge!

Kettle Chips, one of my (and Bite of the Best’s) favorite chip purveyors, has recently launched a limited-edition Create-a-Chip Kit, allowing all potato chip devotees to make their own flavored potato chips at home!

The kit, available in select stores nationwide and online, includes seven seasoning blends and bags of “blank” chips to use as a crunchy canvass for your creations. This wonderfully creative collection truly urges us to unleash our inner artist in an attempt to create the ultimate flavor!

Kettle Brand is really bringing their People’s Choice awards (favorite flavor competition) to the next level! Kettle Brand actually plans to draw inspiration for their next big mainstream flavor from you! Kit users are encouraged to post their recipes at www.kettlechipchallenge.com, where submitted fan favorites will compete to be released for distribution next year!

The Create-a-Chip Kit includes everything a flavor artist might need to make the ultimate potato chips: four 1 oz. bags of ‘plain’ chips are packaged with seven packets of all natural seasoning blends (Lemon Butter, Caramelized Onion, Roasted Tomato, Cheddar, Vinegar, Sweet Chili and Sour Cream & Chive).

For additional inspiration, each Kit also comes with samples of past People’s Choice winning flavors: Spicy Thai, Buffalo Bleu and Tuscan Three Cheese chips.

Season your plain chips using combinations of the packaged blends or get really crazy and add other, unique ingredients from your pantry. It’s a pretty simple process; flavor, shake, taste.. hope you don’t wince! Do make sure to get your ratios right with your spices; my wasabi, ginger and caramelized onion put my eyes to water!

Try for yourself. Limited-edition Kettle Brand Create-a-Chip Kits are available online at www.KettleChipChallenge.com for $14.99 ($24.99 for two) and are available in Cost Plus stores nationwide.

-bryan