Taste testing battery-flavored tortilla chips

Battery not included.

I get a batch of unusual pitches successful my inbox, but “9V battery-flavored maize chips” inactive stopped maine successful my tracks. My caput was ringing with questions (What? Who? Why!?!), but astir importantly: What are they going to sensation like?

This constricted variation spirit comes from Rewind, a caller marque launching successful Europe, starting with the Netherlands, promising to blend “nostalgia with breathtaking flavors.” Most of these dependable beauteous mean — cheese and onion, sriracha, paprika — but their motion to the “weird cosmopolitan memory” of licking a artillery was guaranteed to get my attention.

It’s been a portion since I past licked a battery, truthful successful the sanction of subject I bought my own. Licking a 9V artillery is probably safe, though Rewind is wide that it does “not urge oregon condone licking, biting, oregon different ingesting existent batteries.” But I fig if it’s good capable for my workfellow Sean, it’s bully capable for me. I recovered the acquisition beauteous unpleasant: a small, crisp daze and a lingering metallic aftertaste. Not what I usually look for successful tortilla chips. 

Rewind’s instrumentality is simply a small little intense. There is simply a sharp, acidic spirit astatine first, but it’s milder than I expected. I emotion brackish and vinegar chips, and I’ve had packs that marque maine wince overmuch much than these. What stands retired a small much is that determination is simply a mineral sensation underlying it all, an unusual tanginess that isn’t a cardinal miles from artillery metal. The chips themselves are a small thinner than I similar — I similar a much important crunch from tortilla chips — but aren’t atrocious astatine all.

“It was decidedly an antithetic brief,” says Mattias Larsson, the cook who developed the flavor. “We utilized a blend of citric acerb and sodium bicarbonate to make the tongue-tingling effect, and balanced it retired with mineral salts which springiness the chips a metallic tang.”

The 9V artillery chips are constricted edition, but if you’re funny past Rewind has a signifier wherever you tin request a illustration pack, which ships worldwide.