With his expertise in chemistry and math, scientist Fred Baur invented potato chips in the shape of a hyperbolic paraboloid. Lightweight chips like Pringles can fly off the conveyor belt. This shape, ...

The video explains how earlier potato chips would get easily broken, which inspired Pringles to come up with this unique shape. "In the 1950s, potato chips were getting a lot of complaints from ...

Yukon Gold is one potato that fits the bill -- it's low in moisture and has a medium level of starch. It fries up easily with a golden brown color, and produces a light chip with some body, giving ...

The chips/crisps both came in foil-lined bags. The chips/crisps were nearly identical in size, just shy of 2 inches in diameter for the larger chips, with fragments that were smaller.