Comments on: The tortilla incident

By: tin

tin — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:06:42 +0000

it’s a last resort method, like when you have a party with 50 guests, and you have the grill busy cuz of the carne asada and people are hungry, so you put a whole paquete of tortillas and heat them up. yeah, they get soggy quick, and then stiff.

but check this out, my suegra can make tostadas in the microwave, she throws in a tortilla and heats it up for about five minutes and it comes out hard. i haven’t tried it. but i seen it.

By: chispa

chispa — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:48:15 +0000

microwaved tortillas = gross.

By: gerardo

gerardo — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:20:54 +0000

Although I prefer comal-cooked tortillas, I am forced to microwave my tortillas at work. But the trick I use is to get palatable tortillas, is to wrap the tortillas in a paper towel, and place them inside along with my meal (I usually microwave my lunch for at least 3:45 minutes). They never dry out, and they stay warm long enough to enjoy.

By: urban memo

urban memo — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:14:48 +0000

in a microwave!?! eeeeeeeew!

even my eight year old self that would cook tortillas with an open flame on a gas stove would say eeeeeew!

By: soledadenmasa

soledadenmasa — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:28:47 +0000

I faced this dilemma for the first during Spring Break. I decided to stay at my dorm for that week and all the dining halls were closed for the week, so I went and bought food at a market. I was more than happy when I found that they had tortillas at this market (and not flour tortillas) and bought them without even thinking of how to heat them. All I had was a microwave. I heated them in the microwave, inside a sandwich bag. No habia de otra. Now I don’t have to cuz I’m somewhere where there is a comal.

By: mooch16

mooch16 — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:13:59 +0000

we have a microwave free home, tortillas should always be warmed on the comal.

By: Chely Ramirez

Chely Ramirez — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:46:23 +0000

I don’t like to warm tortillas in the microwave either. I only do this when we have a huge gathering and people are too hungry to wait for slow-comal-cooked tortillas.

When we’re all sitting down to eat, I’ll warm them up on the “Comal” but if I’m eating by myself, then I just put them directly on the stove’s burner.

Boy! Does this make my Suegra mad! She gets upset because there is always a little piece of tortilla stuck on the burner and this little piece will turn into charcoal and create a non pleasant aroma in the kitchen later.

Anyway, cultures are different. I’m sure Summer, learned a lot from your family as well. What a blessing to have had her in your life!

By: mari

mari — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:51:58 +0000

LOL ~ Not only do I have to heat the tortillas on a comal or huge pan, but, as Mami y Abuelita nos enseñó, I use my bare hands to mush down the tortilla when the air bubbles form, and to turn it over, and then to grab it and run to the warmer or toallita, to take to the table. I think I have permanent little burn marks on my fingertips from this but that’s how my Mami rolls and that’s probably the only tradition I will carry on.

By: EL CHAVO!

EL CHAVO! — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:46:41 +0000

I recently tried warming some tortillas up in the microwave at work and they got all sticky and turned cold fast. Thus the reason I bought a small $4 comal on which to heat them up instead.

By: chidolitis

chidolitis — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:29:20 +0000

My aunt heats her tortillas in the microwave all the time. She also wears blue colored contact lenses and dyes her hair blonde, which, come to think of it, explains the
tortillas.