Patent ID: 7820220

Claim:
A method for producing thin, baked fermented chips having an irregular shape and surface bubbles, comprising: a) forming a fermented dough comprising about 30% by weight to about 80% by weight of an uncooked wheat flour based upon the weight of the dough into a dough sheet, b) reducing the thickness of the dough sheet using a pair of counter rotating gauge rolls, c) cutting the dough sheet into a plurality of pieces having different shapes and notches with a single rotary cutter so that the dough pieces form an interlocking pattern and the notches extend around the periphery of each piece, wherein each side or edge of each dough piece has at least one concave portion and at least one convex portion interlocking with an adjacent dough piece, at least substantially all of said concave portions have a plurality of notches and peripheral sections between adjacent notches, each peripheral section within each concave portion also being concave, and the notches are spaced around the periphery of each piece to facilitate separation of the dough pieces from each other, wherein at least substantially all of a plurality of notches of each piece are aligned or contiguous with notches of any adjacent piece, and d) separating the dough pieces from each other.