Tornado Potato

• Gaby
  September 27th, 2007 at 6:57 pm

  I thought they were pretty common, actually. We’ve had them since about 4 years ago in local fairs and stuff like that.

• Murdoc
  September 27th, 2007 at 6:57 pm

  That’s some old snack here in Mexico…
  You can eat that with ketchup or cheese.

• paul
  September 27th, 2007 at 6:59 pm

  any idea on the method of carving? i want to try making them at work, i manage a chip shop, so i have lots of spare time lots of potatoes and lots of hot oil.

  any ideas?

• Miss Cellania
  September 27th, 2007 at 8:01 pm

  We made these when I was a kid. We had a tool, it was a knife with a screw/corkscrew-looking thing at the end. You put the screw in the top of a vegetable and twisted it, so that the knife moved around and down. We made corkscrew shapes out of cucumbers, apples, potatoes, all kinds of things! Only the potatoes fried well, though.

• Chad
  September 28th, 2007 at 12:41 am

  wow a south korean snack I would actually eat!

• yopichoi
  September 29th, 2007 at 7:31 pm

  I also live in México and those are very common in here. You can buy them in the streets.

  Saludos

• guest
  September 29th, 2007 at 10:55 pm

  As Seen on TV

• Dan
  October 17th, 2007 at 9:20 am

  Found most anywhere in Mexico and southern Texas. Where I come from they’re called Spiros!

• Chipstix
  November 23rd, 2007 at 9:45 am

  The snack that everyone is talking about oringates out of South Africa. The machine that turns them is called a Chipstix machine as is the snack that is created.
  Spiros, butterfly spud, tortao, etc do not have them on the stick and yes they have been around for a while but they are the curly or spiral fries cut into a basket not onto a stick.
  The snack / street food of Korea does not originate from there as it was developed in South Africa over a decade ago.

  Chipstix Ltd offers Chipstix machines globally. Visit our site for further information http://www.chipstix.org

• jessica
  February 2nd, 2008 at 6:32 pm

  Does anyone know where you can buy one of those knife/screw tools?

• Chipstix Global
  February 16th, 2008 at 8:14 am

  Hi Jessica, you can contact us anytime

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