My local news station tested this fat free chip maker and liked it.

[No Elephants]

http://www.target.com/p/topchips-chips-maker-and-food-slicer-kit/-/A-13681255?ref=tgt_adv_XSG10001&AFID=Google_PLA_df&LNM=|13681255&CPNG=Kitchen&kpid=13681255&LID=PA&ci_src=17588969&ci_sku=13681255

They used a knife to slice thinly, instead of the slicer that is included, though. I tuned in too later to hear why. Maybe the slicer did not work well? If not, $20 may be a lot to pay for the tray alone. Then again, a few big bags of chips will add up to $20.

The sweet potato chips got a very big thumbs up, with apple or pear chips coming in close behind. In last place were ordinary white potato chips. Supposedly, they had the potato chip flavor, but were chewier than conventional chips. (They may not have been sliced thinly enough?)

It's available at Target, Bed & Bath and Amazon among other places. Amazon will ship free if your order is $325 or more, which is not hard to manage at Amazon, which has so many things.

Looked good to me.

And, since you have to make them yourself--and in small batches, to boot--you are less likely to stuff yourself mindlessly, as when digging ito a giant bag of chips. However, even if you do load up on them, maybe it's still better than loading up on store bought chips?

[Enthusiast]

1. One day we bought

a selection of this sort of healthy chip from Yoders. Yoders is like an Amish-garden place with a little shop with all sorts of food items and interesting stuff. We bought sweet potato chips, apple chips, pear chips and every sort of chip you could imagine. Our goal was to eat out at a restaurant. We ate so many of those damn chips driving along that we never did go to a restaurant. I like 'em! But I don't know if I feel like slicing them myself. But $20 ain't bad.

[No Elephants]

2. Thing is, I have very good intentions when I food shop.

Like not eating between meals.

So, I don't buy many snacks.

Then, it's ten pm and I'm desperate, but the cupboard is bare.

[No Elephants]

3. I knew the name was familiar to me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_v._Yoder

I think the original food folk Yoders may have been Mennonite.

We stayed in the attic of of a Mennonite woman when we visited Pennsylvania "Dutch" country.

I was barely pregnant then, but I had with me a book on baby names that I think she noticed on the nighttable when she made up the room.

In any event, she gave me a loaf of her home made bread after the first time that she made up the room. It was lovely.

Waking up to the sound of the clip clop of a horse drawn carriage or two--and almost no other sounds that could be traced to humans--was very odd, but very nice.

[Enthusiast]

4. I remember now.

Yes, Mennonite. Not Amish. I like to go to Yoder's on occasion.

[Divine Discontent]

5. sounds like a really cool gadget. gotta have the stamina to stand there, but if you're feeling

decent enough, you can slice up a small batch and be done in 10 minutes. What a neat invention.

:hi:

[No Elephants]

6. Yeah, sometimes, you see stuff on TV and wonder if it really works.

So, it's nice when someone objective tests it for you.

I'm thinking I might like to try a pear chip!

[No Elephants]

7. FYI: Cooks Illustrated, which I trust, though I have no idea why, tested Mastrad/

This is what they said:

Published May 1, 2012. From Cook's Illustrated.
Crisp chips in the microwave without any oil? We had to see it to believe it.

Potato chips are a guilty pleasure, and deep-frying your own at home just adds an oily mess to the equation. So when we spotted a gadget that promised to turn vegetables and fruit into crisp chips in the ­microwave—without any oil—we were intrigued. The Mastrad Topchips Chip Maker ($19.99, with slicer) is a perforated 11-inch silicone disk that holds 15 to 20 chips. The included slicer nimbly produced wafer-thin slices of potato, sweet potato, carrot, and apple that we microwaved for approximately three minutes (the cooking time varies depending on the food and your microwave’s wattage), successfully churning out crisp, fat-free chips. While we got similar results by spritzing potato slices with vegetable oil spray and microwaving them on a plate, the advantage of the Topchips product is quantity: You can stack up to three trays (a set of two additional trays is available for $19.99) to make more chips even faster. Plus, the Topchips slicer turns out chips of the perfect thickness; our mandoline-sliced chips were slightly thicker, with a bit less crunch

[Enthusiast]

8. Microwaved.

Who would have thunk it.