Learning to Make Homemade Tortillas | Milk Street on the Road

Reyna Mendoza of El Sabor Zapoteco showed us how to press and cook homemade tortillas at her home in the village of Teotitlán del Valle near Oaxaca, Mexico. She uses a manual tortilla press—standard throughout Mexico for vendors and home cooks alike—and warms the tortillas using a comal, a smooth, flat clay griddle heated over a wood fire.

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[timthompson]

Amazing skill. I'm still struggling to make a small tortilla not break and puff well.

[masuganut]

I could watch her do this all day. It’s so peaceful ❤

[Honeymoon]

I have always wanted to taste corn tortillas that have been milled by someone fresh. I adore Mexican food 😻

[infinitetsukuyomi]

That tortilla is atoms thick and yet it’s holding together no problem. 😌😭😭

[markdlt]

Flour? If so, wow! They came out thin & pliable. I've tried flour on the press, I can't get them to not come out like wraps because they usually shrink back after pressing. If that's corn, then wow, looks like flour in it's pliability lol. Good stuff.

[CD-cyxx]

Is there powder on the Comal? How does it not stick?

[ayoubthegreat]

They didn't show the tortilla at the end..

[SuperTechnicalman]

she's probably been making these since she could walk

[Anointed-qe]

Thats The Biggest Tortilla I Ever Saw😂