Why do we tolerate such tiny flour tortillas?

[Andrew_Culture]

You've forced me into having burritos for lunch now!

Whatcha filling them with? I had mixed beans, homemade chorizo, cheese, salsa verde and hot sauce. It was gooooooooooooooooooooooood.

 

[ColinJ]

You don't need an oven though, you need a giant griddle or skillet ;-)
It actually looks like a good thing to try.

The 4-6 tablespoons of lard in the recipe of that page is a bit scary!

I was looking at a cake recipe the other day and was gobsmacked when I saw that it used about a kilo of sugar, and 250 mL of cream. Strewth!

 

[jonny jeez]

Okay, here you go ...

I'm not sure that I'd want to eat one, though!

(Oops, sorry for posting a massive picture, wrong one! Found here on Wikipedia.)

Evidently they are proper tasty.

 

[jonny jeez]

Why in this country is it seemingly such a challenge to find proper size flour tortillas?

I sometimes make myself burritos and they're always so ridiculously small because it's very tricky making a proper burrito when ones tortilla is smaller than a doll house doily.

Even when in London eating at an alleged 'proper' burrito joint the burritos on offer are pitifully small. I made the mistake of asking for a burrito in a Mexican restaurant once and was served something the size of a fat thumb in a dish with GRAVY on it! Morons!

In America I've eaten many burritos, the absolute smallest of which being at least the size of a dog's head, and the biggest the size of a cat.

This may seem like a first world problem, but if we can't make a burrito capable of saiting even a newborn sparrow's tummy then the world can't reasonably expect to progress towards utopia.

I want giant tortillas!

'Sat Bleedin Bwussels innit!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Whatcha filling them with? I had mixed beans, homemade chorizo, cheese, salsa verde and hot sauce. It was gooooooooooooooooooooooood.

Refried beans, sliced mushrooms and cheese - spicy!

 

[thom]

The 4-6 tablespoons of lard in the recipe of that page is a bit scary!

I was looking at a cake recipe the other day and was gobsmacked when I saw that it used about a kilo of sugar, and 250 mL of cream. Strewth!

Well, it's not news that fat, salt and sugar are the ingredients people like and govern the competition for stomach share.

 

[ColinJ]

Well, it's not news that fat, salt and sugar are the ingredients people like and govern the competition for stomach share.

I know that there is too much fat, salt and sugar being used, but I wasn't aware that it was that much too much!

I mentioned in this post that a friend had made some date sponge with toffee sauce. She cut out 2/3 of the sugar from the recipe and it was still very sweet. She is going to try again using 25% of the sugar, half the butter and to see what she can get away with instead of double cream. I reckon she will get it down to about 1/3 of the calories and fat and it will still taste good.

 

[thom]

I know that there is too much fat, salt and sugar being used, but I wasn't aware that it was that much too much!

I mentioned in this post that a friend had made some date sponge with toffee sauce. She cut out 2/3 of the sugar from the recipe and it was still very sweet. She is going to try again using 25% of the sugar, half the butter and to see what she can get away with instead of double cream. I reckon she will get it down to about 1/3 of the calories and fat and it will still taste good.

Yeah, I've a US cookbook, The Hummingbird Bakery, that has the most absurd, unsubtle recipes I've seen. Certainly you can take as a starting point that half the sugar advised is unnecessary.

 

[Crackle]

You don't need an oven though, you need a giant griddle or skillet ;-)
It actually looks like a good thing to try.

I'm going to try that. Bit like making pizza dough, bit messy but easy.

 

[ColinJ]

What gets me is how completely unashamed (most) TV cooks are when they are piling the sugar, salt, and fat into their recipes. It's almost as though the last 50 years of nutritional research never took place!

If I was devising a recipe, I would start from the premise that I would only add any of those 3 things if I absolutely had to, and if I had to use them, then it would be in the smallest amounts that I could get away with.

 

[JoeyB]

I have tuna wraps every lunchtime and this annoys me also. But what REALLY gets me angry is when the wraps stick together in the pack where they have been packed so tightly for transportation. You end up ripping them to pieces trying to seperate them! And the other thing that bugs me, a certain make only supply 7 wraps....why would you do this? I need 2 a day so why supply an odd number? Just madness.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

But what REALLY gets me angry is when the wraps stick together in the pack where they have been packed so tightly for transportation. You end up ripping them to pieces trying to seperate them!

Quick blast in the microwave should make them come apart easier - another added benefit of that is microwaving destroys any goodness.

 

[Fnaar]

There's a market for the mini ones, though but...

 

[threebikesmcginty]

There's a market for the mini ones, though but...

Ug?????????????

 

[marzjennings]

Do you want me to mail you some from Texas? They should make it through custom ok.
I've heard tell they body bag sized tortillas.