The sea salt is doing nothing. We’ve established this. But vinegar is vinegar, and vinegar is hard to mess up entirely.
Seabrook’s Sea Salt & Vinegar is sour. Properly, genuinely sour. The vinegar registers, the lips tingle, the basic promise of salt and vinegar crisps is delivered. In a range full of disappointments, this at least achieves its primary objective.
The texture problem, again
But texture still matters, and Seabrook’s crinkle cut still has issues. Those thick ridges require chewing, and extended chewing dilutes the vinegar impact. Good salt and vinegar should hit fast and sharp. These hit slow and moderate, the sourness distributed across mastication rather than concentrated on impact.
It’s still salt and vinegar. It’s still recognisably the flavour you wanted. But it’s salt and vinegar with the edges rounded off, the intensity muffled, the experience dampened.
The competition
Every salt and vinegar crisp competes with every other salt and vinegar crisp. It’s the most contested flavour category. Seabrook’s version sits in the bottom third. Not the worst, but never the right choice when alternatives are available.
Buy these only when nothing else exists.
