In London you can find it in these shops.
Before you order it to your door, see if a shop is near you. They keep it for you and you pick it up when it suits you.
- Colmado Hackney
Chatsworth Road 61, London
Tue to Fri 12:00 to 20:00 · Sat to Sun 11:00 to 17:00
- Despensa Northcote
Northcote Road 74, London
Mon to Fri 10:00 to 19:00 · Sat 10:00 to 17:00
If there is no shop near you, we send it to your door.
Delivery to United Kingdom: £17.10, 4 to 6 days.
Delivery already includes customs and taxes. You pay nothing more when it arrives.
Who makes it
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.
How it is made
01
The potatoes are washed and sliced very thin, skin on.
02
They are fried in a pan with olive oil, at a low heat and in batches.
03
They are drained and salted with sea salt while still hot.
04
They are packed in a tin so they do not break on the way.
Other regions
Arnedo is in La Rioja Baja, in the Cidacos valley, among market gardens and hills of red clay. Its hillsides are full of caves that people dug out and lived in.
What we are allowed to say
They are fried in olive oil, which stands up to the heat of the pan better than other oils. In a tin they do not break or lose their crunch.
What they do so it lasts
- 01The potatoes come from farmers less than 40 kilometres away.
- 02The used oil is collected to make biodiesel.
- 03A tin instead of a foil bag, which cannot be recycled.
Where your money goes
- Javier y Álvaro Sáenz
- £3.30
- 47%
- Transport
- £0.50
- 7%
- @seis
- £1.30
- 18%
- The shop or home delivery
- £2.00
- 28%
Out of £7.00, the price before VAT. The VAT, £0.70, goes to the state.
What the label says
- Format
- 500 g tin
- Ingredients
- Potatoes, olive oil (30%) and salt.
- Allergens
- No allergens that need declaring.
- Storage
- In a dry place. Once open, put the lid back on tightly.
- Best before
- 9 months from frying.
- Seal
- No seal
- Made in
- Arnedo, Other regions
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