Tortilla factory - GIF

[ToolTalkBot]

Tortilla factory.





Previously:

Tortilla making machine

[Frank S]

I wonder if the cycling of empty grills is a signal of batch change at the beginning of the line.

[albertq]

Seems energy ineficient with all that heat loss. An enclosed conveyor system with top and botom elements would be more power efficient.

[TrickieDickie]

There is a Mexican Restaurant we go to that has a little Mexican gal inside behind a booth that you can watch while she makes the tortillas by hand, its like eating candy during the meal.

[IntheGroove]

Restaurant tortilla maker...

[Frank S]

When making tortillas there is a slightly different process for making them out of white or yellow corn the same goes for flour The heating or flash cooking of them is not about efficiency, as much as it is about flash heating them multiple times on either side to just barely caramelize the surfaces while leaving the inside in a near natural state. Some of the reasons is tortillas have many uses. cut them into triangles, bake them at high heat to make chips for dipping in salsa Deep fry them in boiling hot oil then sprinkle powdered sugar on them for a puffed slightly sweet desert dip them in hot oil briefly flipping them over then folding them for soft tacos or fold them then bake them for crispy tacos, Put them in a stack of wooden baskets and steam them then add the sizzling meat onions cheese and whatever else you like on your fajitas or just roll the hot steamed tortillas and put butter on them

We have a neighbor lady who sometimes makes them out of mesquite bean flour. Yum. She told us one time her mother taught her over 500 different ways to make and uses for tortillas

[TrickieDickie]

Lucky man, Frank.

[Frank S]

Lucky man, Frank.

We spent nearly a year helping her get a Mexican passport. She was born in Mexico and went to school there until her parents her brothers and sister became naturalized US citizens in 1978 later she married raised 3 children then her husband of 30 years passed away 5 years ago and she decided she wanted to visit the town where her grandparents still live but was concerned about traveling to Mexico on her American passport. No fear of getting back into the US since she is a US citizen her concern was traveling deep into Southern Mexico on a US passport. With the help of her grandmother and others still living in the small town where she was born and went to school, we managed to get enough documentation proving her dual citizen ship enabling her to get her Mexican passport after returning from her travels in Mexico she had some wild stories of how people made fun of her Spanish. once she had traveled so far south. She said some would tell her she might as well speak English because she couldn't get their dialect correct. Their Spanish down there has a mix of Portuguese in it like Columbian or even Brazilian style Spanish. WHO Knew?
Her story reminded me of when I returned from living in Germany for 3 years back in the 70s People from my hometown couldn't place where i was from because I had completely lost my Texas drawl.