/ck/ - Food & Cooking

soft shell taco is better served as a burrito
hard shell taco is better served as nachos

Soft tacos are real tacos. Crunchy tacos are a bastardized Americanization.

>>4088159
crunchy tacos are better in every way, mexicans know nothing of texture

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crunchy tacos are for people that want their food to explode after they bite into it

Both have their uses

Crunchy tacos are tostadas, you ignorant fucks.

hard shell tacos suck.
either you bite low and get nothing but meat.
or you bite high and get just lettuce and some tomatoes and sauce.

soft shell tacos are not like that, you get everything in one bite

The real answer is soft corn tortillas.

>not deep frying your tortillas

gringo tacoes such as those in OP's picture SUCK.

if your taco isn't fried, it's not worth eating (unless it's one of dem little dinky cheap and delicious street tacos. OM NOM.)

>>4088236
But even Mexican food trucks sells what's in OP.

>not folding over your soft taco to make it like a burrito
>2012

>>4088240
Not REAL Mexican food trucks.

>>4088245
Run by real Mexicans, and not a true Scotsman with a glued-on mustache.

Burritos > soft tacos > crunchy tacos

>>4088245
>notruescotsman

>>4088240
Check the customer base buying from the food truck. If the truck is selling tacoes like in OP's pic I don't need to be psychic to know with complete certainty that their primary, probably exclusive, customer base is white people, not mexicans.

If all you've ever had are tacoes like in OP do yourself a life-changing favor and go find a part of town overrun with mexicans. Find a hole in the wall eatery where tons, if not all, of the customers are mexicans, and order your tacoes there. You are in for a blissful revelations.

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>>4088249
>>4088250
Mexican food trucks use corn tortillas, usually given 2 per taco. Not flour nor the neon yellow cracker types pictured in OP.

>>4088256
>eating TB-infested third world pig shitpipe-filled tacos from a rusty rapemobile

shiggyderp

>>4088256
This is true. I have a little Mexican diner a few blocks away from my house that serves almost exclusively Mexicans and me. The food there is amazing.

>>4088262
> two per taco
How does that work.

I make my tacos with corn tortillas that are charred slightly on hot cast iron. Tastes pretty good.

>>4088270
The way it works is you eat the taco with one of the tortillas and anything that falls off, since they are usually overfilled, is used to make a second taco.

soft shell taco is just a burrito

>>4088270
That is the correct way to prepare a tortilla.

>>4088274
I never understood what the difference was.
Obviously, if it's not folded it's not a burrito
If it comes on a corn tortilla, it's obviously a taco
If it's filled with beans, it's probably a burrito.
But the edge cases are tricky.
And let's not get into fajitas, I still don't know what they are.

>>4088297
Well, for years I steamed flour tortillas in the microwave and no one told me wiser. They were about the same as the steaming hot tortillas that I could get at the local Mexican restaurant.

>>4088304
You can steam them, but heating in a cast iron skillet allows for a maillard reaction to take place and make it taste better.

Both are good. When making ground beef tex-mex tacos I always get hard shells but 90% of the time I use soft corn tortillas for steak or breakfast tacos. The stale ones get fried for tostadas.

Flour tortillas are for burritos.

>>4088302
Burritos are folded so the contents are contained, while tacos are meant to be eaten open face. Fajitas are served sizzling on cast iron, and are accompanied by tortillas, which you use to make tacos.

a taco is just a sandwich. you can make it however you want

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>>4088336
>sandwich

Nigger, I think you forgot the extra layer of mayo on your bologna.

>>4088336
In some respects kind of, but mostly not. A taco is an antojito, basically a small snack to satisfy a craving.

>>4088188
>implying you don't lay down a lettuce leaf to hold in your toppings
>>4088166
>implying this isn't the correct answer so long as you make it at home

>>4088362
It requires too much preparation to be a small snack.

>>4088346
that is some exquisite food porn right there. DO FUCKING WANT.

>>4088375
Leftovers. Make a ton at one time and eat all week.
>>4088429
You're welcome. Tacos make me happy too.

>>4088159
>>4088194
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>>4088245
>>4088346

dat beaner butthurt

>>4088456
It's ok. May a giant tidal wave take you and the rest of the east coast to the depths of eternal damnation.

>>4088375
They are Mexican street food or antojito which are served on the street as a snack to satisfy cravings.

>>4088157
2 crunchy, 2 soft.

>>4088346
Those tortillas look like serious hand made goodness

>>4088496
This. Being near the border a buddy of mine has an Aunt who's stand we would visit for either a) late night drunk tacos after the bar or b) early afternoon snacks to tide us over before we ate our meal.

>>4088346

10/10 would salivate to again

double decker > all

If a soft taco could somehow retain that shape, yeah, it's better.

I generally go with hard tacos.

pic=god tier

noo i messed up my spoiler

ill go commit sepuku now.

>>4088937

anyone know how to make those flatbreads ?

>4088955
I always use toasted pita bread when I try to replicate it.

>Dat thick ass pita

>hard taco
>bite
>whole thing shatters and spills shards and meat juice over your hands
>desperately try to catch the pieces
>end up with a handful of mush and a stain on your favorite shirt
>traumatized to the point you never wear white again

Soft shelled all the way.

>>4088166
lol

but seruously if you are eating right away, or buting from a restaurant, hard is better

at home the only choice is soft

other answers are for fags?

>>4088160
Also, this x10

both, variety is the spice of life

i'll withdraw my sex metaphor, since this is a food board

>>4088981
I prefer soft, but I found that hard work better when warm. They are also edible when crushed and mixed with the other ingredients, I've eaten with some friends families and several of the do it like this.

I prefer soft. Easier to eat and less messy.

Hard. If things were my way, burritos would somehow have a hard shell.