How are Lay’s grown and made? Follow the story with @how.kev.eats.
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00:00Hi, my name is Kevin.
00:03I'm a food reviewer online,
00:04and I'm a huge fan of Lay's chips.
00:06My favorite Lay's flavor, limon.
00:08The combination of this and Persian yogurt, unmatched.
00:11And PepsiCo just offered to fly me out
00:13to see how these are grown and made.
00:15A 10-year-old in me cannot refuse.
00:17So naturally I jumped on the offer,
00:18headed to Wisconsin right now.
00:20Or, you know, in a second.
00:22All right, let's go.
00:24I made it.
00:26We're at Heartland Farms today.
00:28I'm extremely excited to be here.
00:29This is gonna be awesome.
00:31Let's go check out what they do.
00:33Hey, I'm Kevin.
00:34TJ, nice to meet you.
00:35I've been eating Lay's potato chips my whole life.
00:38Is it at all possible that I've actually had a chip
00:42from a potato that was produced on this field?
00:44Yep, absolutely.
00:45That's really cool.
00:46Do you have a favorite Lay's potato chip?
00:48I do.
00:49I love Lay's potato chips.
00:51I love Lay's potato chips.
00:52Do you have a favorite Lay's potato chip flavor?
00:54My favorite is Lay's Original.
00:57I'm a limon guy.
00:58I love limon chips.
00:59That's a good one too.
01:00So how long does it take to grow a potato
01:01from planting to harvest?
01:03It is amazing how quick a potato plant grows.
01:05You know, we have early maturing varieties
01:07that take around 90 days up to 140 to 150 days.
01:11Can we dig some potatoes up?
01:12Let's take a look at them.
01:16What exactly are you looking for in a perfect potato?
01:19The rounder, the better.
01:20Shallow eyes and just about that size.
01:23Our two most valuable resources
01:25to grow a good crop like this is water
01:28and high quality soil to make that perfect chip.
01:32Do you ever play catch on the field?
01:33Once in a while.
01:35Give me a toss here.
01:38Good throw.
01:40No luck, baby.
01:42Wow, this thing is massive.
01:44Yes, it is.
01:45I'm Jeremy.
01:46Nice to meet you.
01:47Nice to meet you.
01:47What exactly are we standing on right now?
01:49We are on a self-propelled four-row potato harvester
01:53and we'll be harvesting about 40,000 potatoes
01:57every single minute.
01:58Did you say every single minute?
01:59Every single minute.
02:00We go back to when my great-great-grandfather
02:03emigrated from Poland and had the opportunity
02:06to build a life here in central Wisconsin.
02:08He chose to grow potatoes.
02:10It's in our blood.
02:11That's amazing.
02:12You want to go for a ride?
02:13Absolutely.
02:16When I'm on the harvester,
02:17I feel like the king of the farm.
02:20After the harvests, we follow the potatoes
02:22to see where they get washed, sorted by size,
02:25and then check for quality.
02:26We also have a team that do the final inspection.
02:29By hand?
02:30By hand.
02:31Just to make sure that only the highest quality
02:34get put into a bag of chips.
02:35Wow.
02:36Thank you so much for today.
02:37This was amazing.
02:40Thank you for being a fan.
02:41You're welcome.
02:43We just took the potatoes out of the ground.
02:45Now I get to see what they actually do with them.
02:48Hey, Kevin, nice to meet you.
02:50Before you hit the floor, we got to get you suited up.
02:57This is where it's all made.
03:00So these are the potatoes
03:01that you saw getting harvested this morning.
03:03That's amazing.
03:04We follow the potatoes to the iconic potato slicer,
03:08and then they were off to get cooked.
03:10Oh, the smell.
03:11It smells insanely good.
03:12Oh my God.
03:14And just like that,
03:15thousands of beautiful chips are coming out
03:17on this conveyor.
03:19This is where everything gets seasoned.
03:21We got a surprise for you.
03:22Oh my God, is this a limon chip?
03:24This is the limon chip, yep.
03:26Ladies and gentlemen, we have limon.
03:28That is a hot and fresh limon chip.
03:33Fresh off the press.
03:34The 10 year old in me has his eyes wide open right now.
03:36It's hot.
03:37It's actually hot to the touch.
03:39The chip is warm, it's still salty, it's still acidic.
03:43Easily the best limon chip I've ever eaten.
03:46The fact that I actually get to see how they do that
03:49is why I'm here.
03:50You must be Mary.
03:51Hi, I am.
03:52You must be Kevin.
03:53I'm Kevin.
03:54We're looking for appearance, flavor, and texture.
03:57So we would taste.
03:59Okay.
04:01I have a whole new appreciation
04:03for the solid potato flavor in there.
04:04This is a once in a lifetime experience.
04:06That's a good flavor too.
04:08Yes.
04:09Top tier.
04:10Cheers.
04:13Now let's see what's next.
04:14Upstairs where you were seeing where the chips were falling,
04:17so that'll fall into each of these canisters
04:20and that'll be what drops the exact right weight
04:22into every bag.
04:24That's so cool.
04:25It is cool.
04:26There you go.
04:27It's still hot.
04:29Yep.
04:30It's still hot.
04:30It's still hot.
04:31It's still hot.
04:32It's still hot.
04:33It's still hot.
04:34It's still hot.
04:35It's still hot.
04:36Yeah.
04:38Thank you guys so much for today.
04:39This was amazing.
04:42I didn't really know what to expect.
04:43It was great to see that everybody really loves
04:45what they do.
04:46And I learned a lot about how potatoes are grown
04:48and then made into my favorite chips.
04:50It's an experience I'll never forget.