"jinx the minx" > wrote in message
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> "Julie Bove" > wrote:
>> "sf" > wrote in message
>> news
>>> On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 03:24:25 -0800, "Julie Bove"
>>> > wrote:
>>>
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>>>> "sf" > wrote in message
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>>>>> On Mon, 19 Jan 2015 19:07:44 -0800, "Julie Bove"
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "Brooklyn1" > wrote in message
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>> Julie Bove wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The ones here are not mini. They are huge! I can not find a pic
>>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>>> what
>>>>>>>> I
>>>>>>>> am talking about. Nothing looks like what we get here. I just
>>>>>>>> keep
>>>>>>>> finding
>>>>>>>> Taco Bell stuff.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Huge may be gordita, made with double thick corn tortilla:
>>>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordita
>>>>>>> If you live in an Hispanic hood you can buy gordita tortillas, I >>
>>>>>>> >> > loved
>>>>>>> em wrapped around fried pork and refried black beans.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> No. As I said repeatedly, these are flour tortillas. I know what
>>>>>> gorditas
>>>>>> are. I have made them.
>>>>>
>>>>> Flour tortillas puff up and are not as hard as corn tortillas when
>>>>> they are fried. They are crispy and flaky.
>>>>
>>>> Uh... Yeah. As I said... These are *not* the fried kind.
>>>
>>> How do you know? Your only other alternative it to bake them in the
>>> oven. You haven't given us a visual or even a decent description and
>>> there is no way to read your mind.
>>
>> Because I asked him (the owner) what the soft one was. He said it was
>> just a flour tortilla. Not fried. Picture this. Big flour tortilla.
>> Beans inside. Also lettuce and tomato. Normally there would be other
>> stuff too but I have that left out. I do think the tortillas are key
>> here. His dad makes them and they are vastly superior to anything I can
>> buy. But they are heated somehow and I don't think it is in the oven.
>
> Perhaps with an electric tortilla steamer or flat panini press. That's
> how
> I've seen made-to-order tortilla wraps and things done.

For sure these are not steamed.