Posted on 10/06/2016 1:19:17 PM PDT by nickcarraway
There are very few places in the country where tortillas are as important as they are in New Mexico. Now a Chicago company thinks it has an invention everyone will love.
It’s a first-of-its kind toaster made just for tortillas.
But when it comes to homemade tortillas, Irene Dominguez, will tell you there’s nothing like a fresh one straight from the grill.
Jay Guthrie, with Duran Central Pharmacy, said for the last 30 years every morning batch of tortillas gets started with Dominguez, and customers agree.
“They’d never be as good as Duran’s homemade tortillas,” Sharon Johnson said.
The start-up company, Nuni, claims the invention is a time savor and that it doesn’t change the authentic taste of each tortilla; but New Mexicans have their doubts.
“It’s like they’re stealing my culture,” Anna Padilla said. “When I make tortillas I make like them off the ‘comal’ there is nothing like a fresh tortilla.”
“I really wouldn’t buy something like that because I think the culture here likes to have their tortillas warmed up on the stove, even burned a little on the edges,” Jennifer Montano said.
The company boasts that people can put in six tortillas at a time and after sixty seconds, they’re ready. The toaster even comes in colors for every kitchen and can toast both corn and flour tortillas.
Nuni is crowdfunding to raise $100,000 to mass produce and market the tortilla toasters.
I just looked for a Toaster on Amazon and Toasters are not just Toasters anymore
Richard Hayden: No. My pasta-maker is easy to operate, because the directions are easy to follow.
Janet Miles: Well, we've heard that before: you buy an appliance with easy-to-follow directions, and you get it home, and you need a Ph.D to figure it out. Usually, this "easy direction" stuff is a big lie.. like the Holocaust! [ the phones ring wild, and the bulbs light up on the map ] Now, are your directions really easy to follow? Or is it just another Holocaust-type scam?
I’ll have to ask my pocho Mexicana pals about that one. At which point they will argue among themselves and give me several contradictory answers.
Thank you. That was my immediate reaction.
LOL! When I first read the title I thought it was an article about newly arriving illegals.
Taco trucks on every street corner are invading MY culture!
Infinitely preferable to invading Muslims, I should add.
Anyway, all the hypersensitivity! I’ll wager there are gas & electric stoves/ovens found in kitchens all across Mexico. Are those a cultural invasion, too? Should authentic Mexican food be cooked only in a clay chiminea?
Ay, caramba!
Really?
So you soak the kernels with wood ash, grind the corn with mortar and pestle and bake it on a hot rock?
No?
Then get over yourself sweetheart.
Had to look up `pocho’. Sounds like a description of fully assimilated Mexican-Americans who speak English & came here legally.
She "make like them" y'all. Don't interfere with the woman make like'n her tortillas now.
I do!
My cast iron collection is quite complete - including a cast iron tortilla skillet.
My Messican pals use ‘pocho’ to disparage each other. They use it as if it means ‘inauthentic wannabe Mexican’.
MMMmmm, I agree with you!
Electric burners ARE tortilla toasters.
Set the sucker on 3, slap on a tortilla and wait thirty seconds at the most. Turn once. Done.
That’s the way to do it.
Yes, a multi-purpose device!!
Great for breakfast scones also!
Tortillas are the bread of the American Southwest.
My non-Hispanic wife uses them for evening snacks, along the lines of a simple cheese quesadilla.
Fortunately I can get fairly authentic Mexican style food, at my local El Pollo Loco.
My sister in law was staying with us and I cooked something up in the Cast Iron skillet. I went outside to clean the grill, when I came back by beloved CI skillet was in the sink of hot soapy water and being scrubbed by my S-I-L.
I blurted out: "What are you doing??????????????"
In her typical 'blonde' fashion she said: "I'm cleaning your pan, it was filthy. Don't you ever clean it?"
She hasn't been invited back
Lol. Never let rookies clean your cast iron...
The real shame is the Mexicans took the German music and not their organized nature. Mexico is a Fluster Cluck.
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