Cape Cod Potato Chips

I thought it would be a bit more. But you basically walk down a set of 8 windows and you’re in the gift shop.

WARNING to parents with little ones: this place does NOT allow strollers. The tour is a self-​guided walk down a short, straight hallway, so this really makes no sense and is quite inconvenient. Obviously their chips are delicious, but not really the best activity for families with small children.

I have driven through Cape Cod on the way to Provincetown from Boston so I could have stopped for the self guided tour at The Cape Cod Potato Chips factory. But that was before I ever knew about those delectable chips. So this review is only for their products & not for their on site tour nor for their gift shop.
I became aware of Cape Cod Chips in the early 1990’s when our local CVS née Savon drug stores would have a sale on them to entice me to buy a bag. After a few years, CVS stopped selling them, and
I was left high & dry w/​acute potato chip withdrawal symptoms until a good friend told me a few years later that they were on sale again at Vons-​Safeway markets.
I have tried many of the various flavours, but they tend to mask the high quality flavours inherent in the potatoes themselves. I also choose the original unflavoured over the reduced fat since there is a small yet definite difference.
The chips are not thick & lean toward thin, but their substantial crispy crunchiness is surprising when most chips of this thinness just leave a fluffier, less magnified, unsatisfyIng, wispy crispness. My guess is that they are brined & double fried to attain more crunchiness like Belgian fries. (The French didn’t invent «French Fries», the Belgians did.)
The vegetable oils used are clean w/​a slight natural «sweetness» that adds to the flavour profile so that as you chew, the starch in the chips converts to sugar for a combined pleasurable effect.
The potatoes used give off an ineffable, subtle root vegetable earthiness that is missing in other potato chips & gives Cape Cod Chips an extra nuanced dimension of flavour sensation.
These chips are deadly since it’s hard to stop eating them once you start. These are the only chips that I would describe as GOURMET. So far all other chips have fallen short of the high standards set by Cape Cod.
Please don’t stop shipping them to Los Angeles. I’m afraid of having to undergo another severe bout of withdrawal symptoms & ordering them online just takes too damn long when you got to have them RIGHT NOW.
5 Unilocal stars for truly addictIng & addictive worthy manna from the Gods.

I usually like to visit factory tour, not skip it if that’s on our way. We were going to Hyannis, saw Cape Cod Chips factory. Actually this place is not huge or big deal as a factory tour, though it was fun. I felt like I witnessed they were using real potatoes to make Cape Cod chips. That solved a lot of other kind of mystery about the potato chips. A self guided tour was short, not much to see also, though we saw potato peeler machine, impressed.
At the end of the tour we got very small free original Cape Cod chips. I had twice. We also bought tons of chips. Yeah, after you tasted Cape Cod chips, we got hooked with this special chips from New England. Actually we saved and brought one bag of spicy chips to LA. It was that good. Made with real potatoes!

Well marked parking and signage to find the door. The «tour» is a walk through a hallway with some hanging posters and some window views into the factory. You do get a delicious sample bag of chips at the end, but I would not recommend going here unless you literally have nothing else to do.

We only enjoyed this so much because my bf, a MA native, is the ultimate Cape Cod potato chip fan. It was quite fascinating to see how chips are made! The sample bag of chips was a nice bonus too.

This was ok. I am glad we went, because I’ve always wanted to go and now I know that I never need to go back. Tour is self guided and essentially you walk down a hallway, look in windows and read some posters. I am glad the tour is free.
We did buy some of the new flavors of chips that they had in their gift shop, neither have appeared in stores near us yet so that is sort of neat.
If you’re in the area, stop by, but not recommended to take a vacation or trip out of your way to go there.

From a visit in 2011: Very short self-​guided factory tour, basically a single corridor that spans the length of the building. Unfortunately, I am biased because they had finished the run of potatoes for the course of the day by the time we arrived. Free 0.5 oz sample bags at the end of the tour in the gift shop.

Everything is free except souvenirs in the gift shop. Take the quick, self-​guided tour and get yourself a free sample bag of chips. As another reviewer said, it’s not a «must do» but definitely a «something to do» so check it out if you have some extra time.

It’s super quick and no one bothers you. It’s literally a factory with windows for you to watch the potato chips get cooked and packaged. You read the signs as you go. It’s very short. At the end you can buy the regular bags of chips. My husband and I stopped here after going to the Cape Cod Beer «tour» which is about 5 min away.

Nice little free tour. It’s self guided and quite short. Don’t expect to spend a lot of time here. But it was fun and we enjoyed seeing the potato chips shoot into the kettles and go into the salter.

Add this to your ‘something to do’ list, not a «must do» list when visiting the Cape.
This self guided tour takes less than 5 minutes as you peer through some glass into the factory and read some potato chip facts — which ends, inevitably to a souvenir shop.
From parking, touring and buying you are in and out in 20 minutes tops. It’s neat, but a one and done type stop.

The shortest tour ever. Not extremely exciting. Wash the potatoes. Cut the potatoes. Cool the potatoes. Salt the potatoes. Bag the potatoes. They give you a very small sample bag after the free self-​guided tour. Unfortunately, they choose what flavor.

If you love potatoes chips, you have heard of Cape Cod Chips. What you might not know is that these chips are so famous that they have factory tours for tourists and visitors every weekday from 9am to 5pm.
They have signs in the parking lots to lead visitors to the gift store. The (short) tour is free. The samples are free. The parking is free. It is fun.
This tour is not mentioned in the AAA Tourbook. Thanks Unilocal for leading me here.

I liked it a lot! The potato chip people were friendly. The free samples were good and I got a lot of information from them about how they are made and their parent company and history!

Fun place to stop by if you’re in the area. Plenty of signs for tour parking and I personally love the large seagull feet on the ground leading to the start of the tour. It’s a short self-​guided tour, basically a long hallway with large viewing windows into the factory on the right and you can see the gift shop at the end. It was neat seeing the chips being made and reading about the process… it probably took me 15 minutes or so. The gift ship had a variety of sizes and flavors of chips and popcorn, some on sale but most for whatever price is printed on the bag. They also had other touristy type items of course, post cards, kids stuff, etc. I was pleasantly surprised that there were two large bins with the free sample bags (original flavor), self-​service.

If you are in the area take a half hour and visit this factory tour. It is fun!
The tour is self-​guided and you’ll come out smarter and happier with your free bags (2) of chips.
The tour is walk along a long hallway next to the factory’s assembly line.
You’ll see where the potatoes come in at the begin of the process and on the end you’ll see the chips being bagged and boxed.
We took our time and watched the cooking and spinning of the potato chips several times.
There are wall posters along the hallway with information and trivia that you can read to learn more about the process of potato chip making. They also mention their popcorn making.
No photos are allowed in the tour.
Parking lot is large, the walk from the lot is a little long.
Souvenir shop has limited additions of potato chips and tourist stuff.

The Cape Cod Chip Factory has a self-​guided tour. I really wanted someone to talk to me and tell me stories. But being that everything was free… I can’t complain much about it. Everything was free from the parking, the self-​guided tour to the sample chips. No one rushed us. We wanted to watch the potatoes going into the fryer, watching it being pulled out of the oil to the spinner down to the conveyor to move it to the inspectors, then the bagging of the chips and then the packing of the bags of chips for shipping. I love watching how things are made so this was a cool tour for me. Would I go again… sure. Who doesn’t love kettle chips??! My bf bought some limited batch special chips to take home from the gift shop.

This is cool for the following reasons:
1) Parking is free.
2) The self-​guided tour is free.
3) The two .5 oz. chip samples at the end of the tour are free.
4) It only takes about 20 – 30 minutes.
For those who complain that they can’t actually walk around in the plant, I’m glad they can’t. Thanks to this company’s apparent strict health standards, I can continue to enjoy their products knowing no unauthorized intruders coughed or sneezed on my chips.

I love cape cod chips !
Great little tour but did expected to see a little more– a full walk around the plant In order to see the equipment in use from all angles.
From one tourist to another, definitely worth stopping by. It’s a free tour, quick and you get two .05oz potatoes chip bags for FREE!
Delicious chips!
Can’t wait to eat some more !