If you've hosted a party, you might be familiar with this scenario: You crack open the bags of chips, pour them into a bowl for a little more flair and then realize that the big, beautiful chips are buried beneath a sandy layer of broken bits.
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.
Realistically, you know that the crumbs aren't going to make or break your snack food spread, but they're not super satisfying to snack on and they cling to fingers, making them a nuisance you can do without. But thanks to a simple hack shared by content creator Meleyna Nomura, we've found a better way to manage chip crumbs.
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.
"I'm always looking for low-effort tweaks to boost cooking and entertaining," Nomura tells Parade. "I cook a lot, and like to find ways to both streamline things as well as make them better. This hack is both aesthetically pleasing and requires next to no extra effort." Here's what you need to know to try this trick at your next gathering.
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How This Simple Potato Chip Hack Came About
This hack came to Nomura like so many great hacks do—in a moment of frustration and the thought that there must be a better way.
"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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"This works for every bagged or boxed chip/cracker I've tried it with," Nomura shares. "Potato chips, tortilla chips, even crackers like Triscuits. Just remove the bag from the box first." How simple is that?
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How To Do This Simple Chip Bag Trick
All you need for this hack is a bag of chips, crackers or snack mix, a serving bowl large enough to comfortably hold the contents and some scissors. Place the snack bag over the bowl, grab the scissors and carefully cut the bag open from the bottom. Don't flip the bag upside-down or else the crumbs will move to the top again, which defeats the whole purpose of the hack.
"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."
View this post on InstagramNomura specifically calls for using scissors to open the bag, as opposed to just opening the bag with your hands, but from the bottom. "I like using a pair of kitchen scissors to cut the bottom of the bag open," she explains. "It's not strictly necessary, but I find that when you pull the bag open from the bottom, you end up crushing some of the chips."
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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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This works well with all types of snacks, from tortilla chips to Chex Mix. There’s no real downside or challenge, other than remembering to open the bag from the bottom and not to flip it upside down first.
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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Overall, this is one hack I'd absolutely use again, especially for gatherings where presentation is important to me. It's the kind of trick that reminds me that sometimes the best hosting tips are the simplest ones. And, now that I have learned it, I won't be going back to the dump-and-go method ever again.
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• Meleyna Nomura, food writer, stylist, photographer and recipe developer.
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