Chips are my own nemesis. No matter how hard I try to defeat the crave, it just cry for more. I can truthfully conclude, i am a couch potato. 😦 Just be thankful, I am not the size of a potato.
When I walk down the chip aisle in the supermarket, I cannot help but to look at the different brands and the wide variety of flavours offered. Competition is there!
Those who know me knows I love spicy food, chilies and love being experimental. The newest flavour in chips I discovered late 2016 is SRIRACHA. How could I resist? I have so far tried the Kettle Brand, PC’s World of Flavour, and Original Sriracha. A comparison is made today!
Where I Found the Chips:
PC’s World of Flavour Sriracha: Loblaws, No Frills
Kettle Brand Sriracha: Longos
Original Sriracha: Bulk Barn
Packaging:
Original Sriracha: Rank 1!! I love how original the packaging is. The bag really resembles the bottle of sriracha!
Kettle Brand Sriracha: Rank 2! The thick bag is a novelty of the Kettle Brand. The red colour differentiates itself from the other flavours. So to speak, red resembles the sriracha redness and the spiciness of it.
PC’s World of Flavour Sriracha: Renk 3! Just like other PC chips, all in the same white bag, nothing special, just showing the ingredients and name. You really have to go through each bag to find the right flavour.
Texture:
Original Sriracha and Kettle Brand had the same kettle cooked chip texture, where it was thick, hard and crunchy. However, Kettle Brand had an extra crispiness to the bite, probably due to the thick bag package, helping to keep its freshness and preventing the environment affect the chip nature.
PC’s World of Flavour was the “fried” in oil texture, thin cut and crispy texture. It reminded me of the typical regular chip.
Under this category, I rank from best to good as follow: Kettle Brand, Original Sriracha, PC’s World of Flavour.
Flavour:
Original Sriracha: sweet, but had a feeble hint of spiciness. At least there was a kick to it, or at least attempt to! The flavour was well balanced and evenly spread onto the chips.
Kettle Brand Sriracha: tasted sweet, lacked spiciness. I thought I was eating sweet chilies.
PC’s World of Flavour Sriracha: extremely salty, lacked spiciness, strongly tasted onions and garlic more than anything else. Remember long time ago when there were powder flavours offered at Cineplex that could be put on your popcorn? Or when McDonald’s had the shake flavour fries? The PC chips reminded me of those concept, how the chips were really seasoned by a lot of sriracha powder that made the bag of chips a disappointment. After a period of time, the tongue becomes rough and numb.
Under this category, I rank from best to good as follow: Original Sriracha, Kettle Brand, PC’s World of Flavour Sriracha.
Overall/Conclusion:
The three of the brands were unique and different. I do personally prefer the Original Sriracha most out of all. However, I must admit, they were not attention grabbing or memorable enough that I would have seconds again. The manufacturers need to develop or strengthen the flavours more and improve it. But in terms of recognition, Kettle Brand is more easy to access because they are in all supermarkets, while Original Brand is such a niche and PC’s World of Flavours are only recognized under the Loblaw’s corporate.
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