Best readily available tortilla chip

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Been on a quest for the perfect chip for nachos. Now, I do realize this may (hopefully) devolve into a battle of what constitute a ‘nacho’ and the appropriate accouterments, and that’s just fine - but I’m looking for the ideal chip.

Thankfully, being located in Chicago with a strong hispanic population, we likely have good local stuff I’ve just not stumbled onto yet.

But, I’ll be candid - I do find the salty and thin - almost wispy - chip at the Uncle Julio’s establishment to be a damn fine salsa chip but they don’t have the structural rigidity to stand up to a great nacho cheese sauce. Oh, if you have a homemade sauce you like - pipe up. It will soon be summer and with summer comes drinks with salt and straws and with those comes a need for an appropriate platter of calories on the middle of the deck table.

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Ask at a local latin market? I’m sure Chicago/IL will have a few local producers that will meet your criteria. My go to in the Bay Area is Casa Sanchez but I don’t think they even reach SoCal.

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We like these local chips

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I have the opposite problem. All the tortilla chips I can find locally are too thick for normal eating with salsa. When I lived in Seattle there was a brand whose name escapes me that was great, but nothing my local stores in OC carry has satisfied me. I like them super thin and pretty salty.

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Mmmm Kris, those are good and indeed super salty.

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Here’s our fav:

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[smileyvault-ban.gif] Real nachos have cheese not cheese sauce.

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I’ve found these to be my favorite:

Lower in sodium, but still packed with flavor. Costco carries the larger bags.

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We get Casa Sanchez in LA. It’s our weekly salsa from Whole Paycheck. But it doesn’t come close to the chips and salsa we get from our local Vallarta Market.

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Then these are the chips for you!

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Just like you buy real margaritas in a 1.75ml bottle right?

George

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Exactly! [barf.gif]

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Widely available locally I like the Xochitl blue corn tortilla chip.

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Real nachos have cheese not cheese sauce.

No dispute. But, a sauce made from real cheese protects the cheese from breaking and causing pools of oil.

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Try a cheese like this and you will not have that issue.

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Kris Nailed it. Not sure how broad the distribution is, but best dang tortilla chips around.

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+1. Proper (good) nachos are assembled individually: each chip is topped with a small slice of cheese, peppers, etc… Cheese sauce? Sounds like a midwestern thing…

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Mel nailed it. And I know that Jewel carries them.

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If you want a nacho cheese sauce made from real cheese, start here:

I prefer to melt cheese directly onto chips for nachos, but for our Superbowl party we used that recipe for chile con queso and it tasted great and stayed creamy all day in a crock pot.


For chips, we use these: