Three times during the storage season, our trial varieties are taken out of storage for a color test and quality assessment.
These color samples help to assess how the new varieties perform as storage varieties in comparison with the most commonly used varieties in TCK. This work is crucial both for optimizations for our partners, suppliers and not least to ensure our customers the best future quality.
Our quality managers deep-fry them, after which they are laid out and rated according to a color chart from the European IBVL scale. It’s a very interesting process to see how the different varieties perform and after the data is entered, we lay them out from highest to lowest score and review the result.
These tests are very important for the work with new varieties and thus a look into Thorsens Chipskartofler’s future varieties. A new variety must therefore always go through a long series of tests and assessments and prove stable under Danish conditions over several generations before we invest in the variety.