Cape Cod Potato Chips are loud and hard and have been known to crack a tooth or two. And then of course there is the Doritos line. Frito-Lay claims to have done research to determine that Doritos are in fact the loudest cracking chip, but you know you can't trust them.
According to Connecticut audiologist Natan Bauman, M.D., the average noise level of someone masticating a potato chip is between 25 to 35 decibels. (Other sources peg it as closer to 63 dB when you're chewing on a chip with your mouth open, or 55 dB with your lips closed.)
The sound produced by these chips was quite variable in intensity, varying from 50 to 56 decibels, depending on the chip selected and how it was chewed. On average, the potato chips were slightly louder than the celery, which came in at around 53 dBA.
Noise above 70 dB over a prolonged period of time may start to damage your hearing. Loud noise above 120 dB can cause immediate harm to your ears.
Sounds above 150 dB have the potential of causing life-threatening issues. Sounds between 170-200 dB are so intense that they can cause lethal issues like pulmonary embolisms, pulmonary contusions, or even burst lungs.
a sound greater than 1,100 decibels would unleash enough energy to act like an equivalent quantity of mass. Through Einstein's laws of relativity, this mass would create enough gravity enough to form a black hole. Shortly thereafter, everything in existence would disappear in a crush of sound.
The loudest controlled manmade sounds in history were produced this week--not by a rock band, but by a physicist.
A note on the loudest possible sound in air
Essentially, at 194 dB, the waves are creating a complete vacuum between themselves. You can go louder than 194 dB, but that's not technically a “sound” anymore.
Sonic booms generate enormous amounts of sound energy, about 110 decibels, like the sound of an explosion or a thunderclap.
Aptly named “The Reaper,” the 2022 tortilla chip is spiced with the Carolina Reaper Pepper and Scorpion Pepper which both register nearly 2 million blazing Scoville heat units.
Paqui is an American brand of tortilla chips made by Amplify Snack Brands, Inc, a subsidiary of The Hershey Company. Its Carolina Reaper chips, sold individually wrapped, are known for being one of the spiciest flavors sold.
Hands down, Doritos Chips are the #1 best-selling chips of all time! Not only are they an all-American favorite, but they're also the #1 top-rated Frito-Lay brand of chips worldwide; especially the original Nacho Cheese flavor!
Nuclear explosions are amongst loudest phenomena on Earth. Their loudness ranges roughly from 240 dB to over 280 dB.
Hailey et al.) For the first time in history, earthlings can hear what a black hole sounds like: a low-pitched groaning, as if a very creaky heavy door was being opened again and again.
First 1000 dB is a physical impossibility, anything over 150dB would burst your eardrums, anything over 194dB is no longer sound and anything over 200dB is fatal.
Hearing becomes uncomfortable if the sound pressure level is above 110 decibels (threshold of discomfort), and it becomes painful above 130 decibels (threshold of pain). The following list shows examples of the volume of familiar noises. Most people perceive a 10-decibel increase in volume to be “twice as loud.”
The outside of aircraft engines (around 140 dB at takeoff) and conditions on other aircraft may have higher or lower noise levels.
Instead of being a chip, through the way Cheetos are made, they fit into a different category completely—puffs. “It's actually a corn puff,” the Food Network video stated. “The crunchy variety is fried, while the puffs are baked.” Cheetos are actually cheesy corn puffs, not chips.
A new report into savoury snacks released by The George Institute for Global Health, VicHealth and the Heart Foundation revealed the saltiest product was a veg-based kale chip containing a whopping 7.8 grams of salt per 100g.
A new microchip developed by Northrop Grumman Corp. that operates at one trillion cycles per second, or one terahertz, has set a new Guinness World Record for the fastest microchip ever made. The chip broke a previous record of 850 gigahertz set by the same team in 2012.