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Top chips kit of crisp maker and food slicer allows you to make crips in the microwave in only 3 minutes using potato, sweet potato, carrot, apple and even pear. Place slices evenly on the Topchips and cook for a few minutes depending on fruit or vegetable and microwave strength. Topchips may be stacked on top of each other to make extra crisps. Microwave use only the Topchips maker is dishwasher safe and the slicer ensures the ideal thickness and even slices of your crisps
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
By indieguy
I read the instructions carefully and tried different potatoes cooked at different time periods. My microwave was a lower powered one so I found that longer times were better than shorter ones. It seems that you cant overcook the crisps too easily but of course undercooking is a no no. For here in the UK I think its best to try starting out at 5 mins and then work from there either up or down by 1 minute. Also I sliced my potato straight onto some kitchen roll and patted the starch from them before placing in the microwave which really helped. Anyway it makes you realise how much fat is in other crisps and also how only one potato can easily make the equivalent of a couple of bags of crisps so in the long run this will work out very economical indeed. Also you can just add your own seasoning, a great talking point at parties.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By ElaineG
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Amazon Verified Purchase
I bought this as an impulse buy in the Black Friday sale as my son had been nagging me to make home made crisps. What you get is a plastic trivet which is about the size of a large dinner plate, and which "justs" fits on to the microwave turntable, together with a mandolin for slicing the potatoes (or whatever other veg you are making crisps from). The mandolin will probably prove useful anyway for other jobs, apart from crisp making.
We sliced the potato onto kitchen roll and patted it to remove the starch. It does slice nice and fine, as stated on the box. We then put the slices onto the trivet and into the microwave.
Instructions say to nuke for 3 minutes - that wasn't really enough, we ended up with about 4 minutes, but I expect each microwave is different.
Result: We put the cooked crisps into a plastic bag and sprinkled salt into it and shook it up to try and season them and give them some taste, but the overall result was a bit of a disappointment, pretty tasteless really, although we will try again with some more spicy seasonings. To be honest, you can't really beat a bag of proper crisps, although they don't take long to make, and we will use it again because, if we don't, it will just mean that we made a very expensive portion of crisps.
We sliced the potato onto kitchen roll and patted it to remove the starch. It does slice nice and fine, as stated on the box. We then put the slices onto the trivet and into the microwave.
Instructions say to nuke for 3 minutes - that wasn't really enough, we ended up with about 4 minutes, but I expect each microwave is different.
Result: We put the cooked crisps into a plastic bag and sprinkled salt into it and shook it up to try and season them and give them some taste, but the overall result was a bit of a disappointment, pretty tasteless really, although we will try again with some more spicy seasonings. To be honest, you can't really beat a bag of proper crisps, although they don't take long to make, and we will use it again because, if we don't, it will just mean that we made a very expensive portion of crisps.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
By The Prof
Amazon Verified Purchase
We bought this because some American friends of ours said how good it was (it is more widely available there than here I think). Basically what it does is dry the chips rather than cook them, so they don't have the cooked flavour you get from more conventional methods. It takes much longer than the 3 minutes quoted, largely I think because most UK microwaves are 500 - 600 Watts rather than 1kW. We have tried potatoes and carrots so far, the former are good (although it's hard to stick salt to them without the oil you get from conventional cooking) but the carrots were terrible - flaccid and not worth eating. The potatoes shrink a bit as you'd expect but the carrots disappeared almost to nothing!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars
Home made Crisps
The secret is in the baking! Be careful when slicing the potatoes as you could, quite easily, slice your finger!
Published 1 month ago by Ceirch
1.0 out of 5 stars
Utter rubbish
I purchased mine from Lakeland at a huge cost of £25 why, had I taken leave of my senses. Yes and no, I was unsure at the cost but our toddler has eight serious food allergies, so... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Judey
4.0 out of 5 stars
Actually works!
Couldnt see how this could produce much, but when used it it does actually makes crisps! You need to experiment a bit with timings and flavours. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Samantha Copping
4.0 out of 5 stars
Looks interesting
Bought on a special deal; have not tried it yet; might turn out to be a five minute wonder - much easier to open a bag of crisps than make our own! Or we may love it1
Published 3 months ago by JCB
1.0 out of 5 stars
Awful product
Great idea but the mandolin isn't very sharp so hard to cut your veg to the shape/size you desire then you can only bake a few at a time. Do not buy!
Published 4 months ago by Kelly
4.0 out of 5 stars
Worked fine for me
Theres really nothing to it, you slice the potato, lay the slices on the mat, bung it in the microwave and after a few minutes you have crisps. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Mr. Joel Clyne
5.0 out of 5 stars
crisp maker
does what it says on the tin.perfect crisps every time,you cant tell the difference between these and walkers.plus you can make your own flavours
Published 5 months ago by V. M. Dent
1.0 out of 5 stars
Absolute Rubbish
Bought for £10 during Amazon Black Friday deals...it just doesn't work at all, the worst waste of money EVER!! Don't bother with this as you'll be thoroughly disappointed. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Steven
2.0 out of 5 stars
Be wary of buying this!
My wife bought this 3 months ago and despite several lengthy attempts has had only partial success. With the money & time spent fafing around trying to make home made crisps you'd... Read more
Published 16 months ago by P. Mason
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