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Old 04-29-2013, 07:54 PM
 
Location: 92037
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Who do you like?

Flour or Corn?

How do you prepare yours?
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Old 04-29-2013, 07:56 PM
 
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Who do you like? La Fe

Flour or Corn? Partial to flour

How do you prepare yours? Right on the stove burner on a medium heat for ~10-15 seconds each side so there is a nice char and crispiness
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Old 04-29-2013, 09:31 PM
 
Location: Encinitas
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In coastal north county, El Napolito on Santa Fe Drive in Encinitas makes its own corn tortillas and chips that are very good.
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Old 04-30-2013, 07:22 AM
 
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We are flour tortilla people. We like to make our own, some flour, lard, etc. press them, roll them, hot skillet (dry, no oil) for 30 seconds each side.

If we can't make them, we buy the precooked flour tortillas and drop them on skillet the same way.

Hmm. I'm thinking tacos tonight! Thanks!
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Old 04-30-2013, 08:58 AM
 
Location: Santaluz - San Diego, CA
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I personally prefer flour tortillas but my wife makes homemade corn tortillas. (Actually arepas). It's a LOT of work. She hand grinds the corn in an old school grinder in the back yard. Lots of work but super delicious!
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Old 04-30-2013, 09:12 AM
 
Location: SoCal
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From a fast-food restaurant, always flour tortillas. Their corn tortillas are mass-produced cardboard.

Otherwise, corn tortillas. Flour tortillas are far less nutritious than corn tortillas. For a while, I bought masa from Northgate markets and cooked our own. But lately we found a brand of corn tortillas from Trader Joe's (not the ones with herbs in them - yuck!) or from Fresh 'n Easy that were good enough. I'd buy tortillas from one of the small shops, except they seem to sell them in large quantities only and there's only the two of us.

I first tried to make tortillas using an iron comal, but I hadn't managed to season it properly and it produced mostly smoke. Then I found an electric tortilla maker from Amazon. We use that for cooking or heating up tortillas.
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Old 04-30-2013, 10:18 AM
 
Location: San Diego
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We use a tortilla press and get the big balls of masa.
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Old 04-30-2013, 10:26 AM
 
Location: 92037
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Great replies! We had been contemplating getting a tortilla press and doing it old school with masa from scratch, so think this might nudge is in that direction

oddstray, I didnt know that corn tortillas provided any kind of nutritional value. Is it everything besides the corn that does this? I thought corn had almost 0 nutrients to begin with and simply passes through the body...like olestra
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Old 04-30-2013, 01:44 PM
 
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Great replies! We had been contemplating getting a tortilla press and doing it old school with masa from scratch, so think this might nudge is in that direction

oddstray, I didnt know that corn tortillas provided any kind of nutritional value. Is it everything besides the corn that does this? I thought corn had almost 0 nutrients to begin with and simply passes through the body...like olestra
Dunno. Our friends who live in Ensenada told us that, about corn vs. flour tortillas. There's also the issue of the lard, in flour tortillas.
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Old 04-30-2013, 02:25 PM
 
Location: San Diego
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mmmmmm lard
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