Hey! I recently made carne asada for my partner – they haven’t had good mexican food like that before, and I spent a number of years in texas and grew up with a mother from texas so tex mex food is very near and dear to my heart, and everything came out great, except the home-made tortillas. They felt more like griddle cakes than the corn tortillas I’m used to, and I don’t think i got the ratios wrong on water to masa harina? It’s hard to say if it was actually an issue with the ratios, if it was something with the heat of the cook surface (We don’t have a griddle yet so I had to use a stainless steel pan, not sure if those get hot enough/retain enough thermal mass), if it was something with the masa harina itself, or what. Do any of you have experience making corn tortillas and have any advice? Or should I just go to the carniceria i got the carne asada from and ask if they make fresh tortillas lmao
Internet Shaquille just put out a two part video series on exactly this. His videos are to the point and simple. Here’s the first vid.
https://youtu.be/fKX7qHCpcw4
The embarassing thing is, I watched this video the other day (funnily enough, I’d been wanting to make this since even before this video came out, it was really well timed for me haha) but even having studied this, it still didn’t quite come out well enough for all the reasons mentioned above
Love internet shaquille though, it’s funny seeing him blow up because I stumbled across him when he only had a few hundred subscribers a few years ago, and it’s dope seeing him be so successful now :)
He just appeared on my homepage the other day and I’m only sad I hadn’t discovered him earlier. Smart, curious, and funny is the exact type of content that I crave.
Honestly, go watch some of his oldest stuff. The production quality isn’t there but there’s a vibe to him that had me positive he was gonna make it at some point – fuck it up is an especially fun series and got me thinking a lot more creatively about the foods I had on hand, and also gave me some dope ideas. Cool channel :)