Progressive International is your source for the widest range of functional, inventive and fun kitchen tools and great ideas put into practice. Our gadgets, tools, food-prep items and household products make cooking and meal preparation more efficient and fun. At Progressive, passion and creativity unite to create the right balance of form and function for today's cooks. Our in-house designers spend hours in the kitchen coming up with ways to improve on a variety of traditional tasks and tools. Established in 1973, our commitment to quality and service allows us to offer a broad selection of quality kitchenware and other household products. Progressive holds product patents worldwide and has gained respect as a world class kitchenware innovator. Prepworks from Progressive International is a line of products created by people who understand having the correct kitchen tool can make your cooking experience more enjoyable. Prepworks - essential items for today's cook. The Prepworks microwavable potato chip maker makes healthy, homemade potato chips in just minutes. The set includes 2 trays and a slicer with a hand guard. Use he slicer to create perfect potatoes for crispy, light chips. Advanced material is cool to the touch straight from the microwave. The easy-to-clean tray is stain resistant and allows one dozen chips to cook at a time. Try sweet potatoes for a twist. Dishwasher safe.
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Customers find the food slicer works well on various ingredients, including vegetables and pepperoni, and produces tasty chips that are easy to clean. They appreciate that it makes healthier alternatives to store-bought chips.
This actually really works. The gripper bites into and holds onto the potato. Add your own seasoning and it's great. Just a few minutes in the microwave! Sharp slicer...be careful! Little kids need to be supervised!!!!
I was excited when this arrived on my doorstep and wanted to try it out right away. I put one tray of chips in the microwave and two minutes in I hear this awful sound. Turn around to see flames in my microwave!!!! Very dangerous and not impressed!!
Received this as a Christmas gift. We are a "natural foods" family so we thought they might be good for chips. Well, it does take quite a while to make chips and you can make maybe 20 at a time tops. I don't know about you, but I can polish off 20 chips in under two minutes, so taking almost 10 minutes to make 20 chips for a family of 5 doesn't work out well. In addition we couldn't seem to get these to cook well. They were either too soft or somehow burnt tasting. We tried both white and sweet potatoes. I do like the mandolin included, so we will be keeping that, but the rest is going to Goodwill.
This makes a semi crisp chip. They are rather thick. Sometimes they will be crisp outside and not in the middle. No it is not an issue with my cook times. And yes you can over do it and have crunchy burnt tasting ones. I find them best as soon as they start to get a brown color. The problem is potatoes are not perfect cylinders. The smaller diameter chips cook faster than the larger ones all from the same potato. This means you can have as good as it gets small chips and large ones not done completely. Or burnt small ones and perfect large ones. I'll take the former. While I think they are good with salt. And some even get the nice texture air bubbles. My 4 year old that loves chips and may get some once every two weeks wouldn't even take a full bite of one. They are not bad depending how important texture is to you. It's fun to do. And healthier. Don't expect anything like fried or even baked chips for that matter.
I've read all the reviews and they helped me be sure I made the perfect chip. First of all, don't use the holder for the potatoes. Use gloves. Get that? USE GLOVES. I know this because either I'm incompetent or the holder isn't quite right to hold the potato correctly....most likely the former.
So after three painful finger cuts, I used one of my oven gloves. Now as for the mushyness of larger pieces of chip while smaller pieces are brown. All microwaves differ and some trial and error will give you the perfect time. My microwave gives me good chips at 5.5 minutes. However, if the sizes are greatly different - some really small ones and some really big ones making the small ones crispy and the bigger ones flexible and really kind of mushy - there's a solution to that.
While the small ones are perfect and the large ones sometimes seem not quite done, are flexible instead of crisp, simply leave the big ones out - on a paper towel on a paper plate, on whatever (not the floor) for awhile and they will dry out and guess what, become crisp.
I have found that these don't get stale as bagged chips do if I leave the bag open, so I always make a bunch of them. Regardless of what the picture shows here, always leave a fairly large empty spot in the center of the chip plate. Why? I don't know but it's in the directions and once I started doing that I had better luck.
So, 1) If some of the larger chips are not all that crisp, let them sit for awhile - they'll crisp up. 2) Use gloves with the mandolin. Got that? I can't stress enough, USE GLOVES 3) Salt before cooking, but with a gentle touch, it's easy to get them too salty. 4) Make a lot. They'll go fast. If I'm having a party, I'll make them the day before. 5) Oh, and btw, wear gloves. Throw the potato holder away or make it a doggie chew toy.
Now I can have potato chips without guilt. What's not to love? Crisp, salty, no fat, WOW!
The suggested cooking time is on the box. Don't throw it away immediately. I found that I had to cook my chips a bit longer than the suggestion. Good quality. Thick plastic. Seems durable.