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* cleaning

After a Brushing machine removes the dirt, the potatoes travels alone a water canal to the peeler, they tumble around and around against the peeler rolls until the skin come off

This machine can peel 12,000 pound of potatoes per hour!!!

* Categorizing

Next step A machine that separates the potato by size.... the small once fall below to be rinsed and the bigger once only stay on the top to be cut and then they fell to the rinser too.

* Slicing

Next The potatoes go through slicers, the slicer blades are adjustable can be set to different thickness or different shapes

The central force created by spinning through the potatoes against the sharp blade to make regular chips they cut slices 6/100 of an inch thick an average potato yield 36 slices

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* wash and drying

Finally it's time to wash the potato slices they spin for about a minute in large barrel of cold fresh water

Then like a car wash the slices pass under an air blower to dry up the excess water

* Frying

The Fryer contain cornoil boiling @ 375degrees f, it takes only 3 minutes to fried the potatoes slices into potato chips, as the chips exit the fryer on a conniver belt, the excess oil drops off,

next a shower of slat!

The chips them moves to the sorter

* Sorter

The chips then moves to the sorter, An electronic camera identifies any chips that have brown spots,

* Flavoring

They spray the potatoes with powder of seasonings which stimulate flavors such as BBQ or salt and vinegar

* Packaging

The next machine Separate and weight the portions to be packaged