Where to get large tortillas?

[positivedoppler]

This explains everything

 

[zinfamous]

You go to a Mexican restaurant and they serve up burritos wrapped in really large tortillas, I'm guessing 14" diameter, maybe bigger. I don't think I've encountered those in the markets.

I make a lot of burritos. I'd settled on the not-quite-big-enough "Jumbo" 10" Las Fortunitas packs of 30 sold by Costco, lately for $3.19/pack. They aren't big enough to wrap around my fixin's so I serve it open face. After you eat some of what gets enclosed in the wrap, you can fold the thing into a small burrito. That sort of works. But recently, Costco decided to discontinue this item. All but the business Costco outlet in Hayward will stock nothing larger than 8". The Business Costco stocks 12" packs of 24 for $3.99. It's a pretty long drive for me.

I'm in Berkeley. Safeway has ~11" tortillas in packs of 8 for $2. Trader Joe's has 10" in packs of 10 for $1.79. I'd like to find a source for big packs of the kind of tortillas they use to make burritos in the Mexican restaurants around here. A pack of 50 would be fine. There MUST be a source. I'm not seeing anything online or in the yellow pages. Do you know of any?

Why aren't you going to the large Mexican Market on San Pablo, near University?

They have everything.

oh-lol. NS1 found it for you, and he doesn't even live here. And yeah, that area is known for the cheese.

....I only found this thread through the gorilla thread. :\

 

[Muse]

Why aren't you going to the large Mexican Market on San Pablo, near University?

They have everything.

oh-lol. NS1 found it for you, and he doesn't even live here. And yeah, that area is known for the cheese.

....I only found this thread through the gorilla thread. :\

OK, cool, please explain, what's the "gorilla thread?"

And, yes, I will go down to Mi Tierra and see what they have. I recall being in there a year or two ago and noticing a meat/butcher type operation, a fair amount of frozen food and a very large selection of evidently Mexican pastries. I don't remember tortillas catching my attention, but it's been a long time.

 

[Ns1]

My Google fu is good.

 

[zinfamous]

OK, cool, please explain, what's the "gorilla thread?"

And, yes, I will go down to Mi Tierra and see what they have. I recall being in there a year or two ago and noticing a meat/butcher type operation, a fair amount of frozen food and a very large selection of evidently Mexican pastries. I don't remember tortillas catching my attention, but it's been a long time.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2431573

 

[Muse]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2431573

Ah, OK, so I'm not the only one that makes fun of me?

 

[JEDI]

Ah, OK, so I'm not the only one that makes fun of me?

"I don't see anyone claiming this is a clever parody deserving of clemency, so...
- admin allisolm "

sigh.. and I actually spent a few min creating that thread.

 

[Muse]

"I don't see anyone claiming this is a clever parody deserving of clemency, so...
- admin allisolm "

sigh.. and I actually spent a few min creating that thread.

Well, I didn't laugh, but I wasn't devastated, didn't take it personally. I scanned the posts, eh, so what was my feeling. I knew it was kind of dumb to ask for help with finding giant tortillas, but OTO I figured why not? Those guys will know the answer and in fact I got a lot of really good ideas. I was feeling stumped. Was I dumb? Arguably. Sometimes I feel dumb. Not always! Sometimes I feel like a genius.

OK, I want to contribute something that I think is positive in this thread. I have another use for tortillas recently besides my burritos. I hit upon an idea on the internet a month or so ago to make a kind of quickie pizza with a tortilla. I've been doing that alot. Just look up "tortilla pizzas" in your search engine. Basically, you heat up a tortilla on a griddle on high heat for a minute or two until it starts to bubble, flip it, spread a couple of tablespoons of Italian sauce, top with a couple of cheeses and keep on high heat until it's almost burning on the bottom (the tortilla is then fairly crisp)... remove and cut with pizza cutter on cutting board, enjoy... I can whip one up in ~5 minutes. It's so easy, so delicious. I make my own Italian sauce from tomatoes I grow. I have been using two cheezes on each pizza, parmesan and feta. Here's a picture of what I make:

 

[MongGrel]

Tostada (tortilla)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tostada_%28tortilla%29

Not the same but similar, yeah.

A good way to use shells that are getting a bit older.

:thumbsup::thumbsup:

 

[EliteRetard]

I got nothing against old crunchy tortilla shells. Use 'em like chips.

 

[Muse]

Tostada (tortilla)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tostada_%28tortilla%29

Not the same but similar, yeah.

A good way to use shells that are getting a bit older.

:thumbsup::thumbsup:

When I served this to my brother I called it a tostada, partly because it was open face and partly because I toasted the tortilla on both sides before placing all the stuff in it (my brother insisted it's a burrito).

I don't toast the tortilla to the point where it's rigid, however, like an ordinary tostada. It's pliable enough where you could wrap the whole thing into a burrito if the tortilla was big enough. The 9-11 (average 10) inch tortillas I have been buying from Costco just aren't that big.

Yesterday, I went into Mi Tierra in West Berkeley to see what they have. There's another market just up the street called Mi Rancho. They had 14" tortillas, also 12" and 10". Mi Tierra had 10" and 12". Well, the prices aren't great (for the 12" ones you're paying ~$3 for 8 tortillas). The best deal I've seen so far (inasmuch as Costco's not going to supply the packs of 30 ten inchers at 3.19) is Trader Joe's, who have packs of 10 ten inchers for 1.79. I may just stick with those. Aside from being the cheapest, the size, while not large enough to wrap a burrito from the get-go, is easier on the carbs than a 12", I don't have get a pan large enough to toast a 12" tortilla, and the store is by far the most accessible for me. Besides, I hit Trader Joe's not infrequently for this and that. I can stock up on packs of tortillas, in my experience they keep fine in the refrigerator, literally for months. Unlike bread, I don't think I've ever seen them develop mold. Toasted on both sides, they taste great.

 

[RossMAN]

Alternator sized?