/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>12286813
You were to low on water. The typical recipe on the maseca package is 1.5 cups water to 2 cups masa. Heat the water prior to adding to the masa. Also yours were too thick and lacking the slight bit of brown charring. As >>12287115 said, get the simple press they're like $15-20 but they make the process so stupidly simple you'll do it far more often. They really are superior and worth it.

>>11103749
You need masa (nixtimallized corn flour). 2 cups masa to 1.5 cups hot water. Mix well. Form into balls a little bigger than golf balls (by weight @ 1.8 oz). Roll or press out to @ 1/8" thick. Place on cast iron preheated to medium. Flip after 45 seconds. Press gently with tip of spatula in various parts and it should start to puff a little. Flip after 45 seconds. Remove after 30 seconds. Timing are just estimates, use your judgement when you start seeing small spots of light charring.

How do you fuck up mixing hot water with corn flour, pressing it out and cooking on an iron pan for 1 1/2 minutes flipping a couple times? Homemade are excellent.

Why do people here never have charring on their tortillas? Just terrible.

Homemade corn tortillas for any of it and you have a superior product. Don't be lazy, just do it with nixtimalized masa.

Homemade corn tortilla made from nixtamallized corn masa (pic related).