Crumbland: A World of Chips

Wrap City Hand Crafted Kettle Potato Chips

White Cheddar Jalapeño

Rating: 9.8 / 10

Everything about this chip is phenomenal. It tastes freshly sliced, with a natural, satisfying crunch. Cheddar and jalapeño balance perfectly — salty and just spicy enough.

🇺🇸 USA

Beefy’s Own Beef Tallow Potato Chips

Sour Cream N’ Onion

Rating: 9.7 / 10

THICK potato slices fried in beef tallow deliver a smoky richness. And the sour cream and onion flavor is subtle but perfectly matched. Incredible stuff.

🇺🇸 USA

Utz

The Crab Chip

Rating: 9.5 / 10

Probably my all-time favorite chip since childhood. Thin, crisp, and loaded with crab seasoning that’s spicy, smoky — and yea, really salty. Perfect size, perfect crunch.

🇺🇸 USA

Fox Farms Potato Chips

Plain

Rating: 9.4 / 10

A classic thin, oily potato chip with a fresh potato flavor and light salt. Like a much better classic Lays. Everything about it is fantastic. Exactly what you want for a potato chip.

🇺🇸 USA

Cape Cod

Sweet & Spicy Jalapeñ0

Rating: 9.4 / 10

Instant sweetness sweeps into a spot-on jalapeño flavor, with spice that lingers and multiplies on your tongue as you make your way through the bag.

🇺🇸 USA

Calbee Asian Style Chips

Thai Style Yellow Curry

Rating: 9.4 / 10

This chip nails yellow curry. It has a little spice at the end. Thin and large with a light crunch. It’s bold yet smooth, sweet yet spicy. Just good stuff, man.

🇯🇵 Japan

Doritos

Spicy Sweet Chili

Rating: 9.4 / 10

Great spice level that lingers in your mouth without overwhelming. Classic Dorito crunch and size do exactly what they’re supposed to. But the flavor really steals the show here.

🇺🇸 USA

Keogh’s Irish Potato Chips

Truffle and Irish Butter

Rating: 9.4 / 10

Truffle — which I rarely like on chips — works perfectly with the sweet butter. The seasoning is rich but not overwhelming, and the thick-cut chips bring a great, sturdy crunch.

🇮🇪 Ireland

My Dads Chips

Original Flavor

Rating: 9.3 / 10

A salty and oily classic potato chip with a strong potato flavor. Crunch is light but satisfying, like a kettle chip with restraint. Kinda tastes just like 5 Guys fries?

🇺🇸 USA

Late July

Mexican Street Corn

Rating: 9.3 / 10

Delicious Doritos-like tortilla chips with a slightly harder crunch and killer flavor. It starts off kind of plain, then a sweet rush of chili and mayo hits, followed by a nice little spice.

🇺🇸 USA

Jacks Special Seasoned Tortilla Chips

Stone ground white corn

Rating: 9.3 / 10

Thin, dry tortilla chips with good crunch. Flavor comes in delayed and then crashes with a sweetness. I could and absolutely will eat a shitload without even thinking about it.

🇺🇸 USA

Wrap City Hand Crafted Kettle Potato Chips

Original Salty & Sweet

Rating: 9.3 / 10

A really good chip with a strong and satisfying salty flavor. The mild sweetness adds something interesting. I kind of wish it leaned fully salty, but it’s still a great chip.

🇺🇸 USA

Fox Farms Potato Chip

Salt & Vinegar

Rating: 9.3 / 10

The chip itself is great, and the flavor is nearly perfect: Big potato flavor with subtle salt and vinegar that still hits.

🇺🇸 USA

Wrap City Hand Crafted Kettle Potato Chips

Sea salt and vinegar

Rating: 9.3 / 10

The chip itself is incredible — thick, crunchy, and full of potato flavor. The salt and vinegar seasoning is solid, very similar to Cape Cod’s version, just a little less salty.

🇺🇸 USA

Carolina Kettle Chips

Thai chili

Rating: 9.2 / 10

Really good flavor that starts with Thai-style sweetness and finishes with a gentle spice. The chip size is great, and the kettle-cooked crunch is exactly what you want.

🇺🇸 USA

Nantucket Crisps

Stubbys Jamaican Jerk

Rating: 9.2 / 10

Instant sweetness when you bite in, followed by a mild jerk flavor and a nice spicy kick at the end. The spice lingers just enough to keep things interesting. And the chip has a soft crunch.

🇺🇸 USA

Torres Selecta

Mediterranean herbs

Rating: 9.2 / 10

Thin-sliced, oily potato chips with a heavy rosemary presence. The thyme, oregano, and salt are a good grouping for the rosemary. Very greasy in a good way.

🇪🇸 Spain

Zapp’s New Orleans Kettle Style

Hotter ‘N Hot Jalapeño

Rating: 9.2 / 10

The heat actually hits, but there’s still flavor underneath with a slight sweetness and acidity. The kettle chip itself is excellent, like all Zapp’s, and holds up to the spice really well.

🇺🇸 USA

Carolina Kettle Chips

Cream cheese and chive

Rating: 9.2 / 10

Very similar to a sour cream and onion chip, but richer and smoother. The flavor is outstanding, and the kettle-cooked crunch gives it a solid backbone.

🇺🇸 USA

Fox Farms Potato Chip

Wicked Hot BBQ

Rating: 9.2 / 10

Kinda delayed and subtle in flavor but a legitimately spicy chip. The bbq is light with a nice sweetness. The chip itself is fantastic. Addicting to eat, but spice is real.

🇺🇸 USA

Wrap City Hand Crafted Kettle Potato Chips

Barbeque

Rating: 9.2 / 10

The size, shape, and crunch are all top-tier. The barbecue is sweet and mild. The best BBQ chip I’ve rated, though I wish it had a little heat to it.

🇺🇸 USA

Tostitos

Original Restaurant Style

Rating: 9.2 / 10

Classic. The OG big tortilla chip. Huge chips with a thin, salty crunch that makes them impossible to stop eating. Four of these together are like a full tortilla.

🇺🇸 USA

Beefy’s Own Beef Tallow Potato Chips

Sea salt

Rating: 9.1 / 10

That beef tallow flavor really comes through and gives these chips a rich base. Nice thick crunch. The sea salt is pretty minimal, and I honestly wish there was a bit more seasoning.

🇺🇸 USA

Cape Cod

Original with Sea Salt

Rating: 9.1 / 10

A near-perfect kettle chip with a sharp crunch and strong salty potato flavor. Oily surface is great, though occasionally there’s a slight cardboard note at the end.

🇺🇸 USA

Carolina Kettle Chips

Coastal Crab Roll

Rating: 9.1 / 10

Really good kettle chip with a solid crunch. The crab seasoning is similar to the Utz Crab Chips, but it’s less salty and a bit smokier.

🇺🇸 USA

Kettle Brand

Chili Crisp

Rating: 9.1 / 10

This limited-edition flavor is legit. Starts savory, then slowly builds heat that tingles your tongue by the end. The spice sneaks up on you. Great hard kettle crunch.

🇺🇸 USA

My Dad’s Chips

Jalapeño Sriracha

Rating: 9.1 / 10

Solid chip with a smoky, oily potato base. Jalapeño acidity comes through clearly, but I don’t get much sriracha. The chips are thin with a strong natural potato taste.

🇺🇸 USA

Torres Selecta

100% Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Rating: 9.1 / 10

A thin potato chip with great salty potato flavor and a very clear olive oil aftertaste. Simple and satisfying.

🇪🇸 Spain

Herr’s

Creamy dill pickle

Rating: 9.1 / 10

I’m usually not the biggest fan of pickle chips, but these do it right. More vinegary than most, and the pickle flavor comes in late after a nice sweetness.

🇺🇸 USA

YBC

Atsugiri Zeitaku Three Cheese Flavor

Rating: 9.0 / 10

A rollercoaster of cheese flavors on a really solid ridged chip. Sour to stinky to sweet. The crunch is strong and satisfying, and the flavor keeps changing enough to stay interesting.

🇯🇵 Japan

Lay’s

Mexican Chicken Tomato Flavor

Rating: 9.0 / 10

With a slightly puffed crunch, these potato chips are relatively mild. The flavor is like a tomato-heavy bbq sauce that also kinda tastes like chicken broth.

🇨🇳 China

Zapp’s New Orleans Kettle Style

Spicy Cajun Crawtators

Rating: 9.0 / 10

A thick kettle chip with a hard crunch and a mild crab-chip-adjacent flavor. The Cajun seasoning is restrained, which makes it easier to eat a full bag.

🇺🇸 USA

Calbee Asian Style Chips

Unami Salt

Rating: 9.0 / 10

Part of Calbee’s fantastic Asian style chips umbrella. Think: slightly thicker Wise chips with savory and salty umami flavor. Instantly reminiscent of Japanese cooking.

🇯🇵 Japan

Lay’s Wavy

Loaded Nachos

Rating: 9.0 / 10

Wavy chips usually aren’t my thing, but they work here. The flavor doesn’t really taste like nachos — more like a mild, zesty cheese — but it’s good. Great crunch.

🇺🇸 USA

Zapp’s New Orleans Kettle Style

Evil Eye

Rating: 9.0 / 10

A solid kettle chip with a semi-hard crunch and a flavor that’s tough to pin down. Kind of like a salty BBQ with a subtle spice that opens up as you’re swallowing.

🇺🇸 USA

Doritos

Late Night Loaded Taco

Rating: 9.0 / 10

Tastes shockingly close to biting into a Taco Bell taco. Mild spice, strong cumin presence, and a very accurate taco seasoning vibe. One of the best Doritos flavors out there.

🇺🇸 USA

Late July

Jalapeño Lime

Rating: 9.0 / 10

Like a spicy Cool Ranch Doritos. Same texture, crunch, and size, but a more intense, flavorful taste. Really refreshing for a spicy chip and easy to eat a bunch of.

🇺🇸 USA

Fox Farms Potato Chip

Sour Cream & Onion

Rating: 9.0 / 10

A fantastic chip that tastes like fresh potato slices. Flavor is really tasteful, but I wish it was stronger.

🇺🇸 USA

Doritos

Cool Ranch

Rating: 8.9 / 10

Classic ranch flavor hits immediately. Great crunch and perfect size. Dominates the single-chip test, but the intensity makes it harder to eat a full bag.

🇺🇸 USA

Fritos

Chili Cheese

Rating: 8.9 / 10

Flavor somehow manages to be both subtle and loud. Starts salty, moves into warm chili cheese notes, then leaves an aftertaste that actually reminds you of a bowl of chili.

🇺🇸 USA

Late July

Blue Corn

Rating: 8.9 / 10

Flavorful blue corn tortilla chips that tastes just like biting into a fresh tortilla. Light salt but just enough to keep them interesting. A little oily and good thin crunch.

🇺🇸 USA

Brets

Onions

Rating: 8.8 / 10

A delicious cooked onion flavor comes in right after the crunch. Good size and texture, and the onion note sticks around just long enough to make you go back for another handful.

🇫🇷 France

Calbee Asian Style Chips

Korean Style Spicy BBQ

Rating: 8.8 / 10

Kind of like if Lay’s made a sweeter Utz Crab Chip with a mild spicy finish. Savory and sweet with a gentle heat at the end. All to say: it’s a damn good chip.

🇯🇵 Japan

Herr’s

Loaded Queso

Rating: 8.8 / 10

Really solid queso-flavored chip. The cheese comes on strong, then fades out cleanly instead of lingering too long. The chip shape and crunch are perfect for carrying the flavor.

🇺🇸 USA

My Dad’s Chips

French Onion

Rating: 8.8 / 10

Small, greasy, salty potato chips with a fairly mild French onion flavor. A little too salty for me, and I wish the onion came through more. Still really good potato flavor underneath it all.

🇺🇸 USA

Lay’s

Classic

Rating: 8.8 / 10

A very good light-crunch potato chip. Perfect for sandwiches, either inside or on the side. Clean and dangerously easy to eat in huge quantities without ever getting tired of them.

🇺🇸 USA

Calbee Crisps

Wasabi

Rating: 8.8 / 10

Hits you with a right hook of wasabi flavor right away. Nice nose-tingling bite followed by a great aftertaste. Harder crunch and Pringle-like shape work well with the intensity.

🇯🇵 Japan

Zapp’s New Orleans Kettle Style

Voodoo Heat

Rating: 8.8 / 10

This chip has a lot going on — a mash-up of ketchup-y BBQ, salt & vinegar, and something harder to pin down. I expected the heat to add chaos, but it actually brings order.

🇺🇸 USA

Wise

Golden Potato Original

Rating: 8.8 / 10

Classic thin potato chip, similar to Lay’s but a little less salty. This is the kind of chip where you eat three at a time without thinking and suddenly realize you’re at the bottom of the bag.

🇺🇸 USA

Fritos

Original

Rating: 8.8 / 10

Classic. I could eat an infinite amount of these. Solid salty, corn flavor with a great crunch. The size and shape lets you eat handfuls at a time.

🇺🇸 USA

50 Great Chips

Explore the world’s best chips.Honest reviews & ratings from someone who has eaten way too many.Here are my 50 favorite potato and corn chips.(Ratings are deeply unscientific.)

Wrap City Hand Crafted Kettle Potato Chips

White Cheddar Jalapeño

Everything about this chip is phenomenal. It tastes freshly sliced, with a natural, satisfying crunch. Cheddar and jalapeño balance perfectly — salty and just spicy enough.

🇺🇸 USA

Beefy’s Own Beef Tallow Potato Chips

Sour Cream N’ Onion

THICK potato slices fried in beef tallow deliver a smoky richness. And the sour cream and onion flavor is subtle but perfectly matched. Incredible stuff.

🇺🇸 USA

Utz

The Crab Chip

Probably my all-time favorite chip since childhood. Thin, crisp, and loaded with crab seasoning that’s spicy, smoky — and yea, really salty. Perfect size, perfect crunch.

🇺🇸 USA

Fox Farms Potato Chips

Plain

A classic thin, oily potato chip with a fresh potato flavor and light salt. Like a much better classic Lays. Everything about it is fantastic. Exactly what you want for a potato chip.

🇺🇸 USA

Cape Cod

Sweet & Spicy Jalapeñ0

Instant sweetness sweeps into a spot-on jalapeño flavor, with spice that lingers and multiplies on your tongue as you make your way through the bag.

🇺🇸 USA

Calbee Asian Style Chips

Thai Style Yellow Curry

This chip nails yellow curry. It has a little spice at the end. Thin and large with a light crunch. It’s bold yet smooth, sweet yet spicy. Just good stuff, man.

🇯🇵 Japan

Doritos

Spicy Sweet Chili

Great spice level that lingers in your mouth without overwhelming. Classic Dorito crunch and size do exactly what they’re supposed to. But the flavor really steals the show here.

🇺🇸 USA

Keogh’s Irish Potato Chips

Truffle and Irish Butter

Truffle — which I rarely like on chips — works perfectly with the sweet butter. The seasoning is rich but not overwhelming, and the thick-cut chips bring a great, sturdy crunch.

🇮🇪 Ireland

My Dads Chips

Original Flavor

A salty and oily classic potato chip with a strong potato flavor. Crunch is light but satisfying, like a kettle chip with restraint. Kinda tastes just like 5 Guys fries?

🇺🇸 USA

Late July

Mexican Street Corn

Delicious Doritos-like tortilla chips with a slightly harder crunch and killer flavor. It starts off kind of plain, then a sweet rush of chili and mayo hits, followed by a nice little spice.

🇺🇸 USA

Jacks Special Seasoned Tortilla Chips

Stone ground white corn

Thin, dry tortilla chips with good crunch. Flavor comes in delayed and then crashes with a sweetness. I could and absolutely will eat a shitload without even thinking about it.

🇺🇸 USA

Wrap City Hand Crafted Kettle Potato Chips

Original Salty & Sweet

A really good chip with a strong and satisfying salty flavor. The mild sweetness adds something interesting. I kind of wish it leaned fully salty, but it’s still a great chip.

🇺🇸 USA

Fox Farms Potato Chip

Salt & Vinegar

The chip itself is great, and the flavor is nearly perfect: Big potato flavor with subtle salt and vinegar that still hits.

🇺🇸 USA

Wrap City Hand Crafted Kettle Potato Chips

Sea salt and vinegar

The chip itself is incredible — thick, crunchy, and full of potato flavor. The salt and vinegar seasoning is solid, very similar to Cape Cod’s version, just a little less salty.

🇺🇸 USA

Carolina Kettle Chips

Thai chili

Really good flavor that starts with Thai-style sweetness and finishes with a gentle spice. The chip size is great, and the kettle-cooked crunch is exactly what you want.

🇺🇸 USA

Nantucket Crisps

Stubbys Jamaican Jerk

Instant sweetness when you bite in, followed by a mild jerk flavor and a nice spicy kick at the end. The spice lingers just enough to keep things interesting. And the chip has a soft crunch.

🇺🇸 USA

Torres Selecta

Mediterranean herbs

Thin-sliced, oily potato chips with a heavy rosemary presence. The thyme, oregano, and salt are a good grouping for the rosemary. Very greasy in a good way.

🇪🇸 Spain

Zapp’s New Orleans Kettle Style

Hotter ‘N Hot Jalapeño

The heat actually hits, but there’s still flavor underneath with a slight sweetness and acidity. The kettle chip itself is excellent, like all Zapp’s, and holds up to the spice really well.

🇺🇸 USA

Carolina Kettle Chips

Cream cheese and chive

Very similar to a sour cream and onion chip, but richer and smoother. The flavor is outstanding, and the kettle-cooked crunch gives it a solid backbone.

🇺🇸 USA

Fox Farms Potato Chip

Wicked Hot BBQ

Explore the world’s best chips.
Honest reviews & ratings from someone who has eaten way too many.
Here are my 50 favorite potato and corn chips.

(Ratings are deeply unscientific.)