what is the reason behind dusting snacks with flavour instead

>>8411647

It's more expensive and cooking changes the flavour

>>8411647
moisture. if you rub salt on before cooking, it would draw a shit load of water out of the potato/corn chip and wash a lot of the salt off, then you'd have to reseason it anyway.

if they are fried then im not sure how you'd expect all of it to stick when its swimming in oil

>>8411657
i don't see how. and it couldn't be a bad change. people seemed to like those macaroni cheetos things, and i assume those are cooked twice.

>>8411666
i guess those are an exception, since theres not much processing to making potato chips. but with any kind of wheat or corn based snack, you've got dozens of ingredients going into them already, why not add it all at the beginning.

You fry it. You coat it with seasoning. If you fry it with your seasoning in corn chip mixture it will have almost no flavor. People like snacks because WOW SO MUCH FLAVOR

>>8411694

Put literally anything into boiling oil and tell me what happens to it's original flavour.

It burns off the seasoning

>>8411647
When you make soup, does it matter if you salt it at the beginning or the end?