Kale chips do NOT taste like potato chips. They taste like ass. Not literally, because like crocodile... I just have no clue. I said this Saturday night (the tasting bad part not the crocodile part) and the response I got from my vegetable hating friends was: "You need to put a LOT of salt on them. They taste like salt. They are delicious." I wish he had told me this before I made them. I do like vegetables but other than that we tend to have the same taste in food. If he tells me something is good it usually is and conversely; if he tells me I will not like something, he is right. If I was told to put a lot of salt on them so that they would taste like salt, I would not have made them.
Kale, when baked, has a bitter after taste that is not good. I think I would rather just eat spinach that is lightly salted.
I guess it depends on what type of potato chips you like. I tend to like burnt potato chips, which I suppose do have a slightly bitter taste. I think Kale chips taste a little like burnt potato chips and I think they're very good. We toss the kale in walnut oil and season with sea salt (not an exorbitant amount and certainly not more than your standard potato chip), but salt is recommended.
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