How To Make Banana Chips for Home-Based Business
June 24, 2008 by Leo 8,755 Views
Your earnings will depend on how much you can cook. It will take one day to cook 30 kilos worth of banana chips; and if you want to make the sugared kind, you have to cook the bananas a second time, so that takes up another day.
Believe or not, good banana chips are highly in-demand overseas. So be patient in perfecting your cooking skills — you may be looking at exporting your products soon.
Start-up capital is around P500. Time to finish: 1 to 2 days.
Materials Needed
- 5 to 6 raw saba (plantain) bananas
- Stove
- Fryer
- Oil
- Salt
- Sugar (optional)
Getting Started
- Peel bananas and put them in salted iced water.
- Slice bananas into bite-size pieces and lay across a cloth for 10 minutes to remove all moisture.
- Heat up the oil in the fryer until smoke is rising.
- Fry banana slices in one-layer batches for a minute or two or until crisp.
- Lift chips out with slotted spoon and lay on paper towels to remove oil.
- If you want to make the sweetened kind, sprinkle sugar heavily on the cooked bananas and leave overnight in a covered container.
- Fry again the next day.
- Remember to store your chips in an airtight container so that they do not lose their crunchiness.
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How Much Will You Make
Your markup can be as high as 25%. Practically anyone can be a customer, so your selling possibilities are endless.
source: www.entrepreneur.com.ph, photos by OCS Alvarez
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Hi Mr Nick I’m also interested with the solar food dehydrator, how can I avail one? thanks…
i’ve been making banana chips several months ago but i was wondering how to make it shiny. i buy a lot of it but is cruchy and shiny. please help me on how to make in pecfect take you.
How to start up that banana chips business, sir Leo? I have a feasibility study now yet I don’t have an idea to get or making a peanut- butter flavored banana chips.
How to make a peanut butter flavored banana chips, if available? I want to make another taste of banana chips but I don’t know how to make it, is it possible to have that flavor?
sir nick,pls send me details about your dehydrator. thanks a lot
I am interested in making banana chips. For now, I have a steam -jacketed kettle powered by a boiler, thus, I would like to ask, what is the temperature of the cooking oil while in cooking?
I would also like to ask how much salt will you put per liter of ice-cooled water is soaking the peeled bananas? When you say ice-cooled, what is the temperature?
Do you know of a system to repurify the cooking oil so it can be recycled?
What is the shelflife of banana chips?
Thanks,
Bunny
@Sylvano Alcantara, check this link, maybe this will help:
http://www.mixph.com/2008/06/how-to-make-banana-chips-for-home-based-business.html
I’M INTERESTED WITH THE DEHYDRATOR OF MR. NICK. HOW CAN I ACQUIRE IT?
hwy nick… where could i acquire your equipment? i am a bit interested.. current purchase price and freight (if ncessary) if available.. thanks a lot
Instead of frying, make a solar food dehydrator. There are many great plans online. I made one for just over P2,000 (2009 prices). No costs for gas, no need for a stove, pots, pans or anything for that matter. My dehydrator can do 50 kilos at a time and the time it takes to dry them to 90% is about 4 hours in the hot Cebu sun. I also do pineapples, apples, star apples, rambutan, lancunies, papayas and peanuts. I sell them locally by the kilo, often for P250/kilo or less depending on my costs.
As far as the bananas go, I have tried several fruit juices, but I like the taste of pineapple the best. I take fresh pineapple juice and dip the sliced bananas in it for 15 minutes, set out for a couple minutes to let the extra juice evaporate then into the dehydrator fo 4 hours. The banana chips have a bit of a pineapple taste to them and it is really good (the pineapple juice is high in ascorbic acid and keeps the bananas white color intact during dehydration and helps to prevent spoilage.). Then the bananas get set out to cool for 4 hours so the moisture levels can level out and then they get vacuum bagged so I can keep them for up to an entire year before going bad.
-Nick
I am interested with the solar food dehydrator how can i acquire a unit? I’m based here in manila and i been wanting to have one but it cost alot. Thanks
Nick, are you from Cebu? I am also a Cebuano. Can I visit your place? I am interested with your solar dehydrator.
Ben Ycong
healthwise , cooking oil should only be used 2 times as the molecules breaks upon heating, causing free radicals which can harm health; convert used oil into bio fuels.
May I ask question on how many times we can use the cooking oil used for banana chips? considering the high price of cooking oil in business