Spiral Potato | Twisted chips on a stick |
Spiral Potato Chips
This is an ideal unit to start a small business with. A Potato Spiral chips cutter will only ask for an investment amount of R999 (Bonus: Including 250 x 20cm bamboo skewers to get you started - only in South Africa) Where else can you get a business opportunity like this? A ROI (Return On Investment) after only selling 250 potatoes or less. Think about it...1 day....1 event....fully paid.
From others you could always buy a franchised Chip cutting business for a huge amount ... OR, try to prevent someone from investing only R999 to start a spiral business next door. Or buy a fully kitted food trailer and add the spiral to make it a twisted potato chip trailer - see our trailers at The 'trailer' page. (Please talk to us to confirm investment amount for the trailer first - thanks). Only real bamboo skewered Spirals sold(unless you sell chipdogs??), with top quality skewers, like the ones you find in South Africa. (250x20cm bamboo skewers = R50). You can use ANY LENGTH of skewer in our cutters, as long as the skewer is 5mm in diameter.
Please confirm the current exchange with your bank when doing the TeleTransfer to order.
Price on 28 January 2010 = USD$197.
(This price INCLUDES insured shipping(Airmail) - For INTERNATIONAL INVOICES to countries that can receive insured parcels via the South African Post Office)
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INVOICE SOUTH AFRICAN INVOICE - insured orders -> via the South African Post Office - INVOICE here
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Please Email: Spirals@CateringEquipment4All.co.za - Spirals@CateringEquipment4All.co.za
Thanks,
Johan
Please remember, we post the spirals the next working day after the funds clear into the account. Also forward full address, name and tel.
To order a spiral cutter: (Called a tornado potato in the far east - for tornado chips)
Johan : +27 83 571-2699
Email: Spirals@CateringEquipment4All.co.za
Currently all spirals are distributed from Burgersdorp, in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
How to start a potato chip business:
Let's make a spiral, step-by-step. From potato to ready for the deep fryer - "Chips on a stick" as a twisted potato. Cut a curl potato with our Potato Cutter. These curly fries are not the ribbon fry chips you cut with a potato ribbon slicer, which you get overseas. (Where the ribbon fries look like spaghetti, these are solid spiral slices of potato - ie. you can ALSO use our stainless steel blade as a Mandoline, by slicing the potato by hand.)
Step 1:
Choose a medium sized potato. Get rid of any dirt and bad spots. Take the blunt end of the skewer, NOT the sharp end, and push it through the middle of the potato.
The link to our home page, find and view all our products from here.
Spiral potato facts.
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Quality: Our machines also work for the 40cm skewers you find in South Africa - compared to the short 28cm skewer from the other Chip Traders, make money by selling for the same price or even less? Don't say 'Chips on a stick', but 'Chips on a STICK' or 'Chips on a SKEWER'
Ever heard someone say: 'Keep it simple'? Now this is a simple business. Opportunities like this should be grabbed with both hands, but anyway, I think you know that already.
This is just one of our products, please have a look at the other products by following this link to The 'Catering Equipment 4 All' home page.
Only for Spirals machines - phone now to order:
Johan Welgemoed : +27 (0)83 571-2699 - anytime - try me first
(Our working hours - GMT +2 - 09H00 to 13H00 and 14H00 to 17H00)
Email: Spirals@CateringEquipment4All.co.za
Spiral Potato Cutter Price:
INTERNATIONAL: For visitors NOT from our beautiful South Africa - (International):
The South African Post Office only can take insured parcels to the following countries -
South African Post Office can insure parcels to these countries only
We do not include the 250 skewers. (South African Postage fees are a killer). We include 2 short sample skewers. You'll need to find some 5mm in diameter skewers locally, the longer the better.
Investment amount of a twisted Potato Spiral cutter:
R999 - Only the spiral cutter(+ 2 short skewers as a sample)
R390 - Overseas Postage (Air Mail and Insurance)
R105 - Banking costs on my side for forex transaction
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R1,494 = Total amount
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Selling stainless steel/aluminium spirals since 2003.
US Dollar (Exchange rate ZAR6.05 = US$1 - 10 May 2006)
US Dollar (Exchange rate ZAR6.72 = US$1 - 11 June 2006)
US Dollar (Exchange rate ZAR6.96 = US$1 - 05 July 2006)
US Dollar (Exchange rate ZAR7.22 = US$1 - 01 November 2006)
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US Dollar (Exchange rate ZAR6.64 = US$1 - 11 Oct 2007)
US Dollar (Exchange rate ZAR6.37 = US$1 - 08 Nov 2007)
US Dollar (Exchange rate ZAR6.71 = US$1 - 26 Nov 2007)
US Dollar (Exchange rate ZAR6.98 = US$1 - 25 Jan 2008)
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US Dollar (Exchange rate ZAR7.57 = US$1 - 09 August 2008)
US Dollar (Exchange rate ZAR7.76 = US$1 - 09 September 2008)
US Dollar (Exchange rate ZAR10.10 = US$1 - 21 October 2008)
US Dollar (Exchange rate ZAR9.73 = US$1 - 30 October 2008)
US Dollar (Exchange rate ZAR9.58 = US$1 - 03 November 2008)
US Dollar (Exchange rate ZAR10.30 = US$1 - 21 November 2008)
US Dollar (Exchange rate ZAR10.08 = US$1 - 13 January 2009)
US Dollar (Exchange rate ZAR9.34 = US$1 - 26 March 2009)
US Dollar (Exchange rate ZAR8.36 = US$1 - 09 May 2009)
US Dollar (Exchange rate ZAR8.05 = US$1 - 06 June 2009)
US Dollar = 185 (Exchange ZAR7.56 = US$1 - 28 January 2010) - USD197
For most countries - an almost exact exchange rate see http://www.xe.com/ucc (give or take a Dollar)
(remember buying and selling foreign currency is not the same amount - your bank will help you)
Postage via Air Mail will usually take between 3 and 4 weeks to our friends abroad.
The tracking number will be emailed to you, and it should reflect within 24 hours on the South African Post Office system. See:
For South Africa Post Office speed services(Domestic/National only) for our chip cutters, see:
(If the SAPO speed services is used for international parcels, see www.skynetwwe.com with the tracking number)
We use FEDEX Express for international speed courier services:
We don't use DHL anymore, but if you have an account and want to use them, just let us know:
For DHL Express - Last option, very expensive - DHL promise 4 working days to your doorstep, but it can take up to 6(six) days before they collect from us. (Collections in my hometown only Tuesdays and Thursdays - so if I contact them on Thursday, they'll only collect on Tuesday. Then it'll take another day or 2 to get to Johannesburg, and only THEN will it be 4 working days.)
(This is on the top left of the page - under 'Fast Track')
South Africa - Local postage = R59 for a Spiral and 250 skewers. For an Extra 250 x 20cm skewers add R9,99 extra postage to the above.
(250x20cm bamboo skewers/sticks = R50)
Spirals as a business, with so many spices to choose from, you can cater for everyone's tastes.
Low initial costs, can bring a good return on investment. Why not have a business asking: Spicy spirals or just a salted spiral potato?
Hierdie aartappel op 'n stokkie is baie gewild. As mens kyk na die Rittelfeees 2006, dan is die geadverteerde spiral stalletjies:
And at the Cherry Festival 2006(Ficksburg): I know Stephen went there with his Chip Stix trailer. He is selling his chipstix potatoes at most of the bigger festivals in South Africa(and he even traveled Namibia once, doing festivities there for a few months).
Another popular product I see is some mushrooms on a skewer, so just imagine some mushrooms combined with a skewered chip - family size.
In Holland/the Netherlands, they describe a spiral like this: (Spiraal aardappel snijer) --> (aartappel snyer in Afrikaans - aartappel spiraalsnyer)
- ongeschilde aardappel aan een stokje te rijgen en door middel van een spiraal snijer machine de aardappel aan stokje te spiraliseren.
FAQ:
You can use any length of skewer, but it must be with a 5mm diameter.
Spiral Apples can NOT be cut, no Appletwisters or applestix yet. Our units can double as potato slicers or mandolines though.
-------------------------- Becoming popular is the potato on a sausage or potato on a vienna - Chip Dog.
Take one of the spiralled potatoes, as in the pictures above, remove the stick from the cut potato before opening it. Then take a potato peeler or 'apple core remover' and enlarge the hole in the middle to the size of the vienna or sausage. Insert the vienna/russian into the spiral potato and open as if on a stick. These Chip Dogs will take some practise, you don't want the sausage too thin as it will burn to a crisp before the potato.
a Straight foot long Smoked vienna or russian works well. Remember to cut the skin of the sausage/vienna/russian before putting it into the oil. The fun is in the tasting of your new products, so have fun and have a business with this new business idea.
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Spices:
Typical spice flavours in South Africa would be:
Visit your local cinema, and see which popcorn spices they use. Get the same, they spent tons of money on market research.
Maintenance: Our stainless steel chip slicer, does not rust, no plastic to break and no springs to go soft. This is a commercial unit, and our Warranty/Guarantee can be seen here.
Warranty/Guarantee: I, the manufacturer, will replace any part that prevents the potato cutting machine from cutting potatoes onto a 5mm skewer in a spiral shape. This potato chip machine don't have problems, so before putting a screwdriver to it, Contact me first, as it can save you the postage. We have 100's of satisfied clients, so we can extend this warranty to YOU, for 2 years. Normal maintenance of course: clean and oil every night, and tighten nuts when needed.
(If you've destroyed the unit with a chainsaw while cutting your own hair(i know - i know), we can replace that part for you).
Why Guarantee the pototao cutter for 2 years, and not just 1 year? - After 2 years you've either never used the unit, so it will outlive you - or you've made so much money from this little business opportunity, that you are retiring and never want to see a potato again in you whole live.)
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On the CE rating: The British Standards Institution stated that NO CE rating is required for our Stainless Steel/Aluminium cutter, since it hold no threat. "CE ratings are apparently required for any item of machinery or product that may inherently pose a risk or danger to the user....."
- Research done by Kevin Watson
Hutton Lodge B&B,
Bankend,
DUMFRIES,
Dumfriesshire,
ScotlandPlease go and eat a spiral or 2 at this traditional 100 year old sandstone ex-schoolhouse near Caerlaverock Castle and the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust in the quiet hamlet of Bankend. Or have a sleep-over and have some more potato chipsticks the next day also.
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