{"id":3094,"date":"2017-02-04T12:25:40","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T12:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/?p=3094"},"modified":"2017-02-04T13:15:15","modified_gmt":"2017-02-04T13:15:15","slug":"lets-make-tortillas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/2017\/02\/lets-make-tortillas\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Make Tortillas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got into the habit of making my own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homesicktexan.com\/2007\/03\/and-end-to-my-quest-flour-tortillas.html?m=1\">fresh flour tortillas<\/a>. They&#8217;re more satisfying and less alarming than the store-bought ones you get here in Britain, and as a bonus you can make them the right size for the job, instead of the not-quite-burritos-but-too-big-for-tacos one-size-fits-all approach they have here.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re not difficult to make either, but things do start getting a bit jugglesome when they&#8217;ve finished their second rest and it&#8217;s time to cook them. I usually find I could do with several extra pairs of hands between the rolling out, transferring to the pan, flipping, and putting in the tortilla warmer, which happens on loop until I&#8217;ve run out of dough.<\/p>\n<p>Several extra pairs of hands, or a squad of small robots! I realised the process was prime for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/tag\/factory\/\">production line<\/a> treatment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/hideyhole\/tortilla-line-1080.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3095\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/tortillaline-1000w.gif\" alt=\"Tortilla Production Line\" title=\"You have to make sure the milk is warm, or your tortillas will get anxious and tense up. I've made that mistake before\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As ever, this is an animated gif that loops about every second, but there is a lot more to look at than just one second of looping. As the dough disappears off the bottom and top (under its cling film), you have to imagine it&#8217;s going to rest for twenty and ten minutes respectively.<\/p>\n<p>These robots are doing a pretty legit job of making these tortillas otherwise. We&#8217;d need an army of hungry people to eat them before they go stale though!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got into the habit of making my own fresh flour tortillas. They&#8217;re more satisfying and less alarming than the store-bought ones you get here in Britain, and as a bonus you can make them the right size for the job, instead of the not-quite-burritos-but-too-big-for-tacos one-size-fits-all approach they have here. They&#8217;re not difficult to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[567,328,326,323,411,325,566,113,285,367,397,304,585],"class_list":["post-3094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","tag-animated-gif","tag-conveyor","tag-factory","tag-gif","tag-illustration","tag-loop","tag-looping","tag-machine","tag-machines","tag-manufacture","tag-production-line","tag-robots","tag-tortillas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pC5Eo-NU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3094"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3100,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3094\/revisions\/3100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}