OK now let's find the guy that invented those crinkly Sun Chips bags.
The guy who made it so difficult to open your bag of potato chips
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#22At 4:10 in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkqBbr7Ewsw you can see a VFFS machine in action. (I find 'how its made' to be musak for nerds but that is a different post :-)
I've been watching "How It's Made" on NetFlix, I am on Season 3 and it is awesome. Although, I do tend to get hungry for the foods they show :P
Really? That show always turns me off of eating processed foods. If I watched it every day I'd go paleo for sure.
Re: The guy who made it so difficult to open your bag of potato chips
#23OK now let's find the guy that invented those crinkly Sun Chips bags.
agreed - and then lets ask them about the total fabrication that they are biodegradable.
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#24I'm usually pretty disappointed, because on a failed opening attempt I end up crushing those chips, and then feel like I didn't really get my money's worth.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been watching "How It's Made" on NetFlix, I am on Season 3 and it is awesome. Although, I do tend to get hungry for the foods they show :P
Really? That show always turns me off of eating processed foods. If I watched it every day I'd go paleo for sure.
I'm on Aderall, and by the time I watch the show its effect has worn off (watching it RIGHT before I go to sleep, the guys voice makes me go to sleep), making me slightly hungry, but not enough to get out of bed and actually make any food, besides I don't like eating right before I go to sleep.
Yes, there is a lot of food that is on there where I can find myself saying "well, definitely not eating that ever again".
Re: The guy who made it so difficult to open your bag of potato chips
#26Now I know who Kettle Chips hired to make their impossible to open bags.
I was just thinking about how Kettle Chips have a small but pronounced notch that you can grab and pull. I haven't had any angst opening a bag of chips in a long time.
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#27I love learning about things I would never come across in everyday life, like how a packing machine works and the problems no one would ever think to think of like air pressure and altitudes. Then also the restrictions put in place and how to come up with a creative solution to a problem. This is the kind of stuff I live for.
Check out this playlist of manufacturing processes - pretty cool:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3AFB507B668AF162
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#28"The point here is that while technical options exist to prevent premature opening of the bag, such as reducing the initial air pressure in the bag, attempting to add this to the existing processing equipment would be a nightmare. So it was necessary to increase the seal strength."
You could also reduce the air pressure in the factory, e.g. by building it in one of the aforementioned high-altitude regions.
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#29Now I know who Kettle Chips hired to make their impossible to open bags.
Not to mention the Pop Chips bags...
Re: The guy who made it so difficult to open your bag of potato chips
#30OK now let's find the guy that invented those crinkly Sun Chips bags.
i know them. i believe a lot of the crinklyness was actually overcome by changing to a different type of heat seal, but this was after or very close to the time when the axe was dropped on the PLA bag. but there are lots of other biodegradable materials out there.