Would anyone like Tortilla Chips fried w/ Coconut Oil?
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@LetTheRedeemed
https://gillyloco.com/products/chips-cooked-in-coconut-oilI found this online but these are not the ones my store carries. I have to go there to actually know what the brands are.
But the easiest way for me is really to fry them myself in coconut oil. Definitely the cheapest way.
You can buy a good brand of tortilla's and do it yourself that way. Cut them in triangles first. -
@happyhanneke I’ve used gillyloco in the past, and they are decent but imo not worth the price. I got the largest bulk purchase they allow to get cheaper shipping and it was still like 10 dollars a bag. The avocado tortilla chips retail for 6 bucks for a bigger bag.
I look forward to what you find at your local store! If you don’t mind, can you share with me the store? I may just call them and ask them myself.
Around me, I have Natural Grocers, Whole Foods, Sprouts, and Herb Mart. I think I’ve looked at Trader Joe’s but may have to take a closer look.I have done the frying storebought chips in coconut oil at home, and I just don’t have the situation at the moment to do it at scale for how much I enjoy tortilla chips lol. Also, I think the world should get a taste of how good they are when done right, without breaking the bank!
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@LetTheRedeemed
I will try to remember to go there. It's local store in Wenatchee WA. I don't even know what it's called just how to get there. But I live an hour away so I don't go often only if I need chicken feed. -
@happyhanneke Aw well thank you, Happy!
What I've found in some situations, is a local restaurant makes it the old fashioned way with coconut oil, and they sell to some local stores. I found a random restaurant in Colorado that way and called them up, but they wouldn't ship!
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the resultes of the survey were a smashing success. I will now invest 1 tortillion dollars.
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There’s a brand Hola Nola that is in stores where I live, they taste good.
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@KillaJ I know, I tried to get them to ship to me, I was even gonna drive like 4 hours to the nearest store, then I learned that their placed burned down and now they use avocado oil... feels like a datgummed conspiracy against coconut oil tortilla chips rofl
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I buy Gilly Loco corn tortilla chips cooked in coconut oil. At hole foodz. They are god damn amazing.
I heard Ray once say he ate coconut oil corn chips. But that he couldn’t find it any more and was bummed about it.
It’s always tricky to eat them because they are pretty high fat obviously. And you start throwing cheese and ground beef mango salsa on them bad boys and pretty soon your in heaven.
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Ugh, that sucks. I haven’t bought them in a while, didn’t know they switched to avocado oil.
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@KillaJ that was according to some brief googling I did. I didn't look too much deeper into that because they still don't sell them in my state
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@dapose haha man don't do this too me. See, we need a nationwide coconut oil chip brand. Ima do it.
I also heard him say that he'd suggest them to overweight people to snack on throughout the day, and they'd lose weight. I don't see the high fat of coconut oil to be a problem for weight control, given how metabolic-promoting it is.
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@LetTheRedeemed right! The gilly loco are pretty perfect with just a little cheese and salsa. I just go ape shit and make what my wife calls Macho Nacho night with ground beef heart and liver, tons of sweet salsas and melt raw milk cheddar cheese all over it! It is beyond delicious.
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im not interested in buying your $15 bag of chips that are only available through direct mail purchase and not through the grocery store supply chain
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@dapose dang bro ideas ideas.
I do appreciate gillylocco, If only they weren’t so expensive! I spent like 200 bucks on a whole case and ate them in like 2 weeks — the second week I was rationing lol.
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@sunsunsun my goal is to make them as cheap as possible while still paying the bills!
I do believe that the “organic” and custom ingredient market has very inflated prices, and I’d like to provide something “for the people”
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@LetTheRedeemed some Mexican company can probably make them for peanuts . you just have to figure out importation to not inflate the costs.
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@sunsunsun Smart man
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@sunsunsun yeah, I’ve been looking around at white label manufacturers. Unfortunately, I’ve learned from other industries that you really need to travel and network in person, to build a relationship to know you’re getting the quality they say they are giving you. There is a whole lot of corruption in the cheap labor zones (Mexico to Honduras is filled with really good people of course). Also, metaphorically speaking, if I could give my neighbor a liveable wage in America, I prefer that.
Coconut oil is cheaper than avocado oil, and siete maize avocado oil chips I currently get are around 6 bucks for a 7.5oz bag. My dream would be to get down to seed oil prices, like 2.50 for an 11oz bag. I may not reach that with my other goals in mind, but it’s the stars I’m shooting at (100% biodegradable packaging, properly paid laborers, organic/nongmo ingredients, royalties for a profile pic of Ray’s bust under the ingredients list lol).
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@LetTheRedeemed yo im dm you
