The potatoes are washed and sliced very thin, skin on.
Javier Sáenz started La Sartén de Arnedo in 1998 in premises that used to be a shoe shop. Arnedo was a shoe town, and when the factories closed he took up frying potatoes. He is forty-four.
His son Álvaro is nineteen and this year he left university to stay. Javier is not happy about it. Álvaro says he learns more in the workshop than in class, and that nobody else is going to take on the pan.
The crisps are fried in a pan, not a continuous fryer, so fewer come out each day. Javier says that if he made them the way the factories do, he would have closed already, because the factories already make them.
