How to Make Delicious, Healthy Homemade Potato Chips With a Microwave!

Looking for a healthy, low-fat, easy, and delicious alternative to store-bought fried potato chips? Look no further!

Step 1: What You Need

1 Potato
1 Microwave-safe plate
1 Microwave

Flavoring (Optional)

Step 2: Cut The Potato

Cut the potato into thin slices, as thin or as thick as you'd like.

Using a vegetable or cheese slicer (often found on a side of a cheese grater) works well.

The thinner the slice, the more quickly it will cook and the crispier it will be.

Step 3: Lay Potato Slices on Plate

Arrange the potato slices on the plate with the thinner slices on the outside and the thicker slices on the inside. This will provide for more even cooking.

Step 4: Add Flavoring

Add any desired flavoring. I have tried salt, salt and vinegar, cayenne pepper, seasoned salt, and garlic powder.

Step 5: Nuke it.

Put the plate in the center of your microwave and set it for five minutes. (cooking time will vary depending on how many chips you are making and the thickness of the slices)

Step 6: Watch the Chips

You have to watch the chips as they cook, because cooking time varies greatly. The chips are done when brown spots develop and they become crispy. Cook them as long or as little as you like to change the degree of crispy-ness.

Step 7: Enjoy!

Enjoy the chips and feel good in the fact that you are eating a low-fat, healthy alternative to traditional potato chips.

Comments

[james4]

Potato =3

[OldBird51]

I make my chips using a plastic mesh that is for cooking oven chips..
works a treat without sticking.

[Nastyaff]

Oo thanks for the valuable advices!

[rbaba]

If you want to add cheese of any kind, do it in the last half-minute of the process. Don't overcook it. For an 1000W microwave lamp running at 100% power:

slice of cheddar, gouda, emmentaler: 10s
farmhouse cheeses, very fat, but somewhat dry, lightly astringent: 20-30s
extra-dry cheese like italian Parmesan: 30s-1minute -> this is your best bet!

Don't microwave blue-green cheeses. Nasty. Most should be eaten cold.
You may have some success with light white cheeses such as Brie, Camembert, certain regional varieties. Greek feta is not a good idea either.

Avoid factory-melt cheeses. They use various potassium salts which still linger. Microwaving them further transforms the composition of the cheese, making it unsuitable for eating, if not toxic.

[mmccall1]

Does this work with other vegetables, or do they just turn mushy. Really trying to figure out how to cook or dehydrate veggies that makes them more snackable.

[Unsia]

HEY i used the same paper plate as you with Yukon golds but mine still stuck to the plate! Help! i even tried greasing the paper plate a bit with olive oil i also tried this with a glass plate same thing happened it took ALOT of effort to pry them off. heellpp!

[ashannon2]

As was mentioned, either, use baking paper, sprinkle plate w/ any salt, tony's, sea etc, or And spray plate w/ Pam,, Don't open door les you gt a fire till done, you"ll know by looking, toaster oven works great too, just needy to flip,

[lukeyj15]

would oil help?

[commentnlookr]

yes
it does

[pixelate]

Mine were okay... ish

[pixelate]

I tried this and i didnt get too good results, but i think i know why, you are using a paper plate which is absorbing the moisture, and i didnt get brown spots at any stage.

[Tkuebrich]

So one of my chips started sparking but I threw it out and then everything went fine. Also, mine stuck to the paper as well. Not only is this a good snack but it also helps steam any old food off your micro wave!

[dodo91]

how do potatoes spark? i geuse it's one of earths unsolved mysteries. speaking of wich, i watched animal planet the other day. they had video evidence of "the missing link!" otherwise known as big foot. he murdered a guy trying to shoot a forest ranger. they also found video evidence of a ver large lizard thing. it has infectionous bateria in its mouth. the guy in it was eaten alive. he had a wife/girlfriend. a moment of silence....................... okay, i know that was WAY off topic. but come on, thats some intresting stuff.

[nriehm]

actually, those are made up videos based on the myths/ evidence of those creatures; it says so in the show.

[drummonkey92]

was the lizard a komodo dragon?

[nriehm]

supposed relative

[dodo91]

no. aparently, its a lizard monster, larger than a human, but i dont believe in it.

[nriehm]

you have reason too, they found ancient cave paintings of it in the dino era. And at the end of that time only creatures that could go underground or underwater survived that um... apocalypse. and it definitely wasn't a water dweller, nor could it dig underground...
... so it would have died out.

[hbassnett]

You also have to take into consideration that people were a lot shorter than they are now, and that anything that looked huge back then isnt really that large, compared to our height. :)

[ReCreate]

gross

[anchubou]

This is heaven! :D

[chixi96]

wow awsome! i made them n mother loved them

[Muniosi]

Nice chips! I made two modifications to your 'ible. First, I used a KitchenAid mixer attachment to slice the potatoes. This made many more chips and made them much thinner. Second, I sprayed the plate with Pam so the chips wouldn't stick. Works like a charm!

[daviddd]

These taste really odd. But i keep eating them! WHYYY?

[chotzeny]

You can put the salt on the plate first - then place slices on the solt
the salt grains will keep it from sticking to the plate. and the slices waight will make the salt stick..

[matt95x]

great!

[willi.da.bomb]

best chips evarrrrr


ok? i be a pirate ??? anyway good chips all those who are having trouble use baking paper works everytime

[eulaliaaaa!]

I just made some and they are AWESOME!!! nomnomnom.

[ebcat]

I have tried it!, very cool and delicious. But my potatoes were sticked to the plate, so I used this structure made of sticks, and that was the result: http://s884.photobucket.com/albums/ac46/ebsct/ http://s884.photobucket.com/albums/ac46/ebsct/?action=view&current=P7310004.jpg http://s884.photobucket.com/albums/ac46/ebsct/?action=view&current=P7310001.jpg

[tqwerty]

Damn!! I wasn't watch for two seconds and then BOOM, not explosion boom but emphasis boom, 2 of them were burnt, but the rest were perfect.. I guess I'll give those ones to my brother

[tqwerty]

Ok so I had to take the thin ones off the plate after 6 minutes (they smell like Mickey d's fries) and I put the thicker ones back in for 3? Minutes. Mm they taste good

[tqwerty]

Are they tasty cold?

[tqwerty]

Ommnomnomnom this is delish... But I haven't even tried them yet. Great instruct able, mine are still in the microvave but they are taking more than five mintutes.. ( though I have to admit I'm not very good at cutting) I can't wait to try them! I used salt and olive oil

[-Noah]

Do you have to peel the potato?

[thatkidwithayoyo]

No.

[Itscrafty]

i tried mine in a deep frier and its delicious thanks for the idea

[ComplacentBard]

if you fried them, they're not any different from regular chaips. whats the point?

[cornflaker]

I think that *is* the point lol

[Allan Wells]

Thanks for this instructable. The chips tasted great!!!

[Pilgrimm]

You might have an easier time of separating the chips from the plate if you use a piece of bakers parchment, lightly oiled with cooking spray, between the chips and the plate. This should also work in the conventional oven, and if you're lucky enough not to burn, then you can use the parchment over again for a second batch. "Betcha can't eat just one...." (Batch, that is...) Great guide!