The best dill pickle chips are crisp, refreshing, tart, salty, herby, and delicious. I don’t know if any other single item in the culinary kingdom touches as many taste buds on your tongue as the dill pickle. I try to incorporate dill pickles into my life as much as possible (I even ranked all the best dill pickles), so obviously I’m a huge fan of dill pickle potato chips.
We rounded up every widely available bag of dill pickle chips we could get our hands on and tasted every single one here at the Sporked offices. Some were forgettable, some were overwhelming, but the ones that made the list below were just right. These are the best dill pickle chips you can buy.
- Pringles Dill Pickle Potato Chips
I understand that Pringles are technically potato chips, but I never think of them when someone says “potato chip.” They feel kind of like off-brand potato chip product. I don’t anticipate much from them when it comes to crunch or flavor. These Dill Pickle Pringles proved me so wrong. They are bursting with such strong, perfectly balanced dill pickle flavor. They were the most authentically “pickle” chips we had our entire taste test. I guess I’m a Pringles stan now?
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- Route 11 Dill Pickle Potato Chips
What we love most about these Route 11 Dill Pickle Potato Chips is that they taste like all of the elements that make up a pickle. Sure, you get dill and vinegar, but you also get garlic and salt. This legitimately tastes like eating a pickle out of a jar (unlike most chips that just hit the dill really hard). They lose a Spork because they are a little expensive to acquire if they aren’t local to you (Route 11 is based in Virginia), but if you’re looking to drop some cash on potato chips, these are among the best pickle chips out there.
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- Kettle Brand Krinkle Cut Dill Pickle Potato Chips
If you’ve had any flavor of Kettle Brand chips, you know that the crunch is simply unparalleled. Their Dill Pickle flavor is no exception. In addition to their sensational crunch, these chips have an almost salt-and-vinegar-like taste. One thing our team really appreciated about these is that the chip itself tastes like potato, which is something potato chips often lose when they’re seasoned. The combo of fresh herb flavor and big potato taste could almost trick you into believing these chips are homemade.
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- Zapp’s Cajun Dill Gator-Tator New Orleans Kettle-Style Potato Chips
Zapp’s Cajun Dill Gator-Tators have no Cajun and no gator, but they hit you over the head with dill. They are wonderfully greasy and the pickle dust sticks to your fingers in my favorite way. The dill-forward flavor made Justine Sterling, Sporked editor-in-chief, think they would be good on a tuna salad sandwich, and I couldn’t agree more. If you like pickle chips but aren’t a fan of a strong vinegar taste, these are a great pickle potato chip option.
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- Deep River Snacks New York Spicy Dill Pickle Kettle Cooked Potato Chips
These New York Spicy Dill Pickle Kettle Cooked Potato Chips from Deep River Snacks are so crunchy, greasy, and dilly. As someone who lived in New York for many years, I’m not sure what makes these “New York” pickle style, but I also don’t care. They taste great! We ordered a multi-pack for this taste test and I ate a snack-sized bag of these every single day until we ran out. If you prefer your chips paired with something else, I’m happy to report that these are hearty enough to stay crunchy on a sub and they definitely won’t break if you dunk them into dip.
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Most Pickle-y
Best Regional
Best Crunch
Best Dill
Best of the Best
The rest of what we tasted: Wise Ridges Dill Pickle Flavor Potato Chips, Lay’s Dill Pickle Potato Chips, Sprouts Dill Pickle Kettle Chips, Herr’s Creamy Dill Pickle Potato Chips, Trader Joe’s Chips in a Pickle, Clancy’s Dill Pickle Potato Chips, Utz Ripples Fried Dill Pickle Chips
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