Tornado Potato

I thought they were pretty common, actually. We've had them since about 4 years ago in local fairs and stuff like that.

That's some old snack here in Mexico...
You can eat that with ketchup or cheese.

any idea on the method of carving? i want to try making them at work, i manage a chip shop, so i have lots of spare time lots of potatoes and lots of hot oil.

any ideas?

We made these when I was a kid. We had a tool, it was a knife with a screw/corkscrew-looking thing at the end. You put the screw in the top of a vegetable and twisted it, so that the knife moved around and down. We made corkscrew shapes out of cucumbers, apples, potatoes, all kinds of things! Only the potatoes fried well, though.

wow a south korean snack I would actually eat!

I also live in México and those are very common in here. You can buy them in the streets.

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Found most anywhere in Mexico and southern Texas. Where I come from they're called Spiros!

The snack that everyone is talking about oringates out of South Africa. The machine that turns them is called a Chipstix machine as is the snack that is created.
Spiros, butterfly spud, tortao, etc do not have them on the stick and yes they have been around for a while but they are the curly or spiral fries cut into a basket not onto a stick.
The snack / street food of Korea does not originate from there as it was developed in South Africa over a decade ago.

Chipstix Ltd offers Chipstix machines globally. Visit our site for further information www.chipstix.org

Does anyone know where you can buy one of those knife/screw tools?

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