Although chip crumbs might not rank super high on the list of party snack frustrations, we'd argue that it's one of those tiny hosting annoyances that feel inevitable, no matter how hard you try to avoid it. You shake the bag before opening it. You try to pour the chips out gently. You might even consider sifting out the crumbs like you’re panning for gold.
Nomura's hack is easy and intuitive and keeps those crumbs at the bottom of the serving dish, where they belong. Her easy trick gives you a bowl of good-looking, party-ready chips or crackers simply by rethinking the way you open the package.
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How This Simple Potato Chip Hack Came About
"For this hack, I was opening multiple bags of chips and decanting them into bowls for a party," Nomura says. "After I opened and dumped the first one, I was annoyed at all the crumbs being on top."
She considered putting the top half of the bag of chips in one bowl, dumping the bottom half into the serving bowl, and then putting the unbroken chips on top. "That felt pretty silly," Nomura admits. But that's when she had a lightbulb moment. "Then I thought I could just open it from the bottom right into the serving bowl so that the crumbs always remained where they started," she says. "It worked like a charm!"
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How To Do This Simple Chip Bag Trick
"The important part of this is to make sure the bottom of the bag is resting in the bowl when you open it," Nomura shares. "You can lose a lot of chips and crumbs if you open it at the counter or table and try to walk it over to a bowl."
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My Honest Thoughts About This Potato Chip Trick
The ease of this hack is almost laughably simple, which is why it’s so effective. It takes no extra time and instantly makes your snack bowl look more inviting. Texture‑wise, the experience is better, too, because guests get full chips instead of a handful of fragments.
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I wasn't as skilled at this hack as Nomura is in terms of successfully holding the bag up with one hand while cutting the bottom with another, so I put my unopened bag of chips flat on the counter and cut the bottom off. I had my bowl right next to me, so I gently lifted the bag and dumped the contents into the bowl.
With either method, because the crumbs are still at the bottom of the bag, they now land first in the bowl. The intact chips follow, ending up right on top, where guests can easily grab them.
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• Meleyna Nomura, food writer, stylist, photographer and recipe developer.
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