[_Z_]

Originally Posted by Murf

Sounds like a good idea, but what about oiling the sides of the chips?

Dunk, spray or apply however you like. I was thinking about how to get the excess off. The pads I suggest are dry. The trick will be getting the pile length of whatever material used- high enough, or deep enough to reach the sides.

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[CaptLego]

Originally Posted by _Z_

Dunk, spray or apply however you like. I was thinking about how to get the excess off. The pads I suggest are dry. The trick will be getting the pile length of whatever material used- high enough, or deep enough to reach the sides.

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That's why I was thinking about "steaming" them. The main problem with the oiling techniques suggested so far is removing the excess oil. So.... why not come up with a scheme that doesn't over-oil them in the first place?

Just put 'em in a double-boiler for an appropriate amount of time.

[whitepotatoe]

Wouldn't they warp if you steamed them? If not, it looks like a great idea.

[CaptLego]

Originally Posted by whitepotatoe

Wouldn't they warp if you steamed them? If not, it looks like a great idea.

Well, Ten has already baked 'em --- we can see how they like temperature from that...

What's the boiling temp of mineral oil? Is it flammable?

Somebody should steam their chips...

Then we'll just need a test for broiled, grilled, ....

[Bostonpokerchips]

Sounds like a great idea capt, a little butter, some Pepper...
(somebaody had to)

[PocketRocket]

If you don't mind using some other oil other than mineral oil, serving chicken wings to all your poker buddies kind of makes the process automatic and it gives it more of that authentic casino breaking-in process .

Another alternative would be to play on the kitchen table (not the good poker table), use paper cards, and then pass the baby oil around to everyone at the table. After the game, wipe the kitchen table clean, discard the cards, and stack the chips in acrylic racks to let the excess oil drain. A few days later, remove the chips from the racks and clean out the oil from the racks.

[JM]

Along the steaming oil idea, though that sounds a bit dangerous (think medievil times with boiling oil) to me, I was thinking you could aerosolize it and spray a light sheen on the chips and let them air dry. If you used as little as possible, it could be perfect.

Say you lay out a few hundred on a table covered with newspaper and spray them all and let them sit an suck it up for a day or so. Flip them all and repeat. You'd still need to do the edges, but doing the edges by hand is a piece of cake. Just grab a stack of 20 or so at a time and an oiled towel and oil up the entire cylinder in a couple of seconds.

The trick is getting a nice fine & light spray. Heating oil is aerosolized into a very fine spray as its injected into your burner to heat the house. As I remember, the nozzles they use are on the order of microns in size (gotta go down to the basement to check this) which would be hard to duplicate in some hand held device. Maybe reusing something like a hairspray pump bottle would work. I smell a new project for this weekend! Still got 200 to do

[JM]

Originally Posted by _Z_

Seems getting oil on the chips is easy enough, but getting the excess off is where the time consuming part of the process is.

I've got an idea. That 'ol phonograph for wear testing might just draw double duty... One movable plate (turntable on bottom) set against one fixed plate above, with the chips sandwiched in-between. Terryclotch or lambswool pads line each surface. Start up the old Victrola, and your chips are wiped clean and unifromly oiled. Should be able to do 15-20 at a batch. Some sort of raised rim might have to be employed to keep the chips from 'squirting' out from the edge.

Seems to me an old clotheswashing machine may be able to be cannabalized for the same purpose, -not that I'm volunteering! -I only have room for one, and that's going to be needed to wash the pads!

Hmm, maybe a salad spinner would work. Its basically a big collander inside a closed plastic bowl with a crank on top that is used to try lettuce. Oil up a batch of chips, arrange them nicely in the bowl and spin. Nice part is, you control the speed, so you can be fairly gentle to avoid pulverizing them. Maybe that'll be plan B for the weekend after the aerosol test. That is if I can find a salad spinner at walmart.

[daveyboy]

Before your next big game, take away all the napkins in your house, order a bucket of KFC, and have everyone eat and play poker at the same time.

Yum...finger licken good chips!!

[dad604]

Make sure you deep fry the chicken with mineral oil instead of veg. oil. I think it would do no harm to the players eating the chicken, should pass right thru them.