How to Reheat Corn Tortillas Properly
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YOU HAVE TO REHEAT YOUR TORTILLAS! THIS IS NON-NEGOTIABLE!
Flour tortillas, corn tortillas, store-bought tortillas, homemade tortillas... they ALL must be steamed right before consumption. This is a serious message with peace and love thank you thank you.
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My wife and I like watching your videos and she's sleeping in for our anniversary so I quite literally get to "Babe wake up, New Net Shaquille just dropped"
sensational. happy anniversary. That reminds me.... mine's in 8 days and I still haven't picked out a gift or made plans!
good luck my mans :)
@@internetshaquille How about a Barkley tortilla warmer?
@@adamresh9952 Barkley does have great gifts for every occasion!
Reminder for you to be extra prepared this year!@@internetshaquille
Finally, someone who understands Mexican food!
Final tip: the 5/5 dry tortillas are not worth salvaging. Instead, you should spray them with some oil, sprinkle them with salt and bake them for 10min at 330°F. Now you've got easy, cheap, fresh tortilla chips you can use for snacks or chilaquiles. If you've got an air fryer, cover them with a steel rack so they don't curl up and fly around while cooking.
Oooooooohhh this might be a game changer for me... I was trying to find a way to do Tostadas so I didn't just add them to my grocery list, and I think this is just the way to do it!
@@EzraM5 i highly recommed this, i prefer home-tostadas made from tortillas than pre-made ones
"Finally, someone who understands Mexican food!"
-tells people to spray their corn tortillas with water
LOL
Agreed, the only way to use 5/5 corn tortillas is with oil.
@@user-io9hj9ip2d that's how you heat them up if they're too dry dude
Infuriating that it's 2023 yet grocery stores still only carry garbage 10 inch tortillas that haven't changed in 20 years and you have to SEARCH for good ones
Not in Texas 😎
MFs keep buying them, what are they supposed to do?
We have it good in California
I think that's more of an issue of locally available goods. Here in Chicago we have a massive El Milagro factory that sends out tortillas fresh daily to supermarkets and also neighborhood tortillerias that you can go straight to the source.
@@arthurcatrambone1982Yeah, youre def prty right there as i only noticed when i moved to the midwest how all the grocers back in Oregon were able to have an entire display dedicated to a gigantic variety of corn and flour tortillas of many sizes...
Back where i lived in Oregon was in a city where the elementary was bilingual (english & spanish ofc) and the city just 10 mins north of that one was chockfull of businesses with only Spanish signs on them, not even tryin to appeal to English spkin only ppl cuz that place was very hvily Hispanic populated, with a lot of first generation immigrants and their kids, both in the 90s when i grew up and the 20s when i moved away.
All those Hispanic ppl tho meant that we had some of the best bakeries and carnicerias and otherwise around almost any neighbourhood; while ofc they were the ones supplyin the bigger chains with those tortillas, but also the rly delish breads that are practically donuts but better in every way.
Here in the midwest, theres like eight tortilla options and theyre all the same 10" flours save for that exact 5/5 dryness corn tortilla xD
French toast the corn tortilla
that’s gotta be a mexican dessert somewhere.
This has made corn tortillas so much better for me. I'm still a white boy buying the big bag of crappy grocery store tortillas, but oh my god is the microwave move a game changer. Thank you.
To be fair, dry ramen noodles with a sort of flavor packet sprinkled on it all crushed up is a very popular snack in Taiwan. It's also very delicious.
It was popular in Canada when I was in middle school.
I'm not sure that they are popular per se here in Canada but I do know that when I was in school it wasn't uncommon for kids (myself included) to eat it like that and I still do that to this day, I do also eat them cooked it's a different experience. Crush up the bag before you open it, sprinkle the seasoning on it, hold the bag shut and shake it. Enjoy you have yourself these nice crunchy savoury snack. Although depending on the brand you probably only need about 1/2 of the pack of seasoning because they're extremely salty unless diluted in water.
科學麵！
Here in Vietnam too. So good.
That was super popular with my stoner friends lol
Got my tortilla warmer yesterday, made dinner tonight & it worked great! Thank you Barkley!
I was blown away when you crumpled that tortilla and it just sprung back at 2:35 . I had no idea that they could be that springy! Clearly I've been doing flour tortillas wrong for a long time. Thank you so much for this information!
These are corn tortillas, he should have also mentioned that white corn tortillas fall apart way easier than yellow corn tortilla.
You have no idea how valid I feel bc you showed off the tortilla steaming inside of a wet towel. My mom showed me that 16 years ago and every taco night has been fueled by microwaved store bought tortillas (or abuelitas misshapen fresh ones).
About 20 years ago, my two Mexican aunts (I’m half white and was raised by my white mom) and my cousins all got take out and I microwaved my tortillas with paper towels to steam them up. Both my aunts made fun of me and called me a gringo (not gringa…) and it really hurt my feelings.
Thanks for the validation all these years later.
oof, dont feel bad. Making tortillas seems to be a rite of passage among aunts, but that also means using the most painful and least practical method sometimes
I kinda got the same shit from my family. I'm Mexican and so are my parents but at some point I realized their method of warming corn tortillas on the burner sucked ass so I microwaved mine in a towel and got endless amounts of shit about it from my family. I still do it this way and they're still over there using fire like cavemen to make the most fragile tacos known to man.
"No mijita lo haces mal, así es más fácil" **Proceeds to do the task in the most inefficient and complicated way imaginable**
Because a hot pan with oil is correct gringo. Microwave is crap.
born and raised in mexico, I microwave the tortillas when I dont want to bother with the comal
Watching this felt like unearthing a memory capsule in the back of my brain. I've seen so many of these techniques used at family dinners with the Mexican side of my family in the past, but I never really questioned why they did things in such a specific way. Seeing the cotton towels and the styrofoam was spot-on and really gave me a better understanding of those dinners and parties I spent much of my childhood attending worked. Not to mention it was great info for the next time I want to get myself some corn tortillas!
This is a pretty dramatic "oh, wait, I'M the asshole here" moment for me. Thank you for giving me this realization.
This video changed my life! I grew up in a border city and we could get fresh tortillas literally anywhere.
I moved to South Carolina for work a few years ago and had given up on corn tortillas cuz I could never heat them properly. I had no idea you had to heat store bought ones differently than fresh made ones. Tyvm.
Me: "Hey, those are the same corn tortillas I get at the supermercado!"
NetShaq: "These will taste worse than any other tortilla shown today."
Me: "Oh."
I'm sorry! Give homemade a try and see how different it is!
I don't get the strangle hold terrible tortillas have on supermarkets. It's rare, but sometimes I see some smaller brands with wonderful tortillas but they're always way more expensive. I started lucking out because I subscribe to imperfect produce and they often have a brand of blue corn tortillas that are decently priced.
@@pressxtojason sometimes a food brand succeeds based on distribution, not quality :/
@@internetshaquilleWill do. The same supermercado has excellent flour tortillas from a local tortilleria though, so maybe I just need to look closer.
Look for any preservative free tortilla, Diana's is a good brand
So I've been making your chicken tinga recipe, and one of the only problems I was having with it was this exact issue. I never eat tortillas much at all, so when I bought some corn tortillas, I was pretty disappointed by how dry and weird they were. I had no clue there was more prep involved, I treated it like sandwich bread where you just... use it! Thank you for this additional info.
You ate the tortillas cold?
That is what I'm saying, yeah@@cafemiel7
You dont toast your sandwich bread?
I do not toast my sandwich bread, correct. @@emilytheimp
@@malachyte_art Thats alright. Enjoy your sandwich the way you prefer it ^^
I don't eat tortillas but I've always had trouble reheating refrigerated chapatis - your towel method worked so well! thank you!
The steaming applies to hot dog buns as well. Wrap your weiner sleeve in a damp paper towel and nuke it for 20 seconds depending on your individual microwave. You get a pillowy soft bun that transports you right back to your favorite ballpark. Now you’re able to serve yards of delicious meat tube every time, but remember to practice safe grilling and use condiments.
It's to the point I ask non-Mexican restaurants if they heat up their tortillas. If they act confused, I avoid any tortilla dishes lol
WHAT? as a fake Mexican working at a non mexican resturaunt, how do you NOT heat up tortillas as a god damn cook?!
how many tortilla dishes do non-mexican restaurants have
@@KvltKommandothis person is most likely classifying any tex-mex restaurant as non-mexican
And every time the servers are gonna get weirded out and hit you with the "let me ask the kitchen"
@@KvltKommandolots? there's a lot of restaurants that will have some form of taco on the menu.
I didn’t think I would watch a whole video on reheating tortillas, but this was so informative.
Store corn tortillas work just fine for me, I double them up and pan fry in a decent amount of oil until slightly crispy then stack them up to steam up a bit. I always get compliments on my street style tacos with this method
This is what my mom does. Looks like she was right again (as usual)
Easier than a wet towel is putting tortillas between two plates, the top one upside down. Sprinkle on some water and microwave; it creates a small steam chamber between the plates.
This works for everything you want to steam or reheat and should be the default method for reheating anything in the microwave.
I never knew to do this, so thank you! I have celiac disease and can't have regular flour tortillas and have been complaining about corn tortillas falling apart for forever 😂 This has saved me hahaha
My favorite way to make them is to deep fry them in a pan for a couple minutes. Excellent for taco shells. They get a crunch, but are still flexible
toasting factory corn tortillas over an open flame also works. it doesn't make it soft and pliable but rather crisps it up a touch to give it a bit of crunch. and tastes good.
Grill Corn tortillas with queso fresco and carne asada is the best
You can find a plastic in-between Styrofoam and clay price option in most Indian grocery stores that's made to hold rotis. Same problem though, you need to put a cloth towel in there to absorb the steam.
i fear that the insulated tortilla warmer plug worked..... i bought it and am very excited
We dont even have the 5/5 tortillas here, the only corn ones are the super crispy taco shells
surely you're joking
welcome to continental europe
european hellhole
Soak them anyway!
Soft corn tortillas are a fairly new thing in my area as well. They aren’t great, but they are decent
Hey, thats good to know! I love corn tortillas but they come in such huge packages I often end up with a half a pack that could probably be ground up and turned back into corn flour. 😂 If I dont give up and throw them away i usually make a casserole with them. Nice to know I have a few other options.
add a bit of oil to a pan and fry those hard ones to a nice tortilla chip!
You blew my mind, making those factory tortillas pliable. That particular brand is the only corn option my supermarket has, and i always feel bad serving them as the gluten-free tortilla when i have friends over for taco night.
I'm definitely getting that tortilla warmer. I might also get that soap holder, the definitely seems worth the price imo. Family members are always fucking knocking the sponge into the sink where it just gets to sit moist and then they wonder why they get stinky so fast -_-
I got the microwave tool from Walmart and oh my god it's a game changer i love it. But how do i clean it? 😳
I’d love if you could drop a ponche / atole / horchata / gorditas / tamales / pozole tut .. also recently i tried en la calle’s tepache which i didn’t know existed and it’s practically the most delicious refreshing thing. porfis try! ty fr posting :>
I really need to try your freshly made tortilla video. I had tried corn tortillas from the shop before and even reheating them well but for some reason I get a funky almost chemical taste off of them. Being in a place with few mexican people doesn't help I imagine.
that chemical flavor drives me nuts. it's SO strange
I've been doing this for a long time, since the moment I realized reheating torillas made them so much better.
I use "worst case" store bought tortillas, and typically use an oven to heat them back up.
Basically I turn on the oven to the default 350F, and after a little bit (the oven isn't really fully getting to temperature, doesn't need to be precise) I put up to 8 of them on a pan and stick them in.
I wait a few minutes for the texture to start to change, and flip them over for another few minutes. Otherwise the bottom becomes too wet from the moisture they release.
When I take them out of the oven I flip them again, and I'm all set.
good tip... i don’t have a microwave (no room)
I usually need to double up factory made corn tortillas, so the strategy I use for cooking to double stack them in the pan. The top tortilla locks in air moisture which steams the insides which makes them pliable, while also leaving a crispy outside.
I tried the microwave steaming part with desiccated Guerrero white corn tortillas from Costco. I was able to get them to puff up to make tostadas in the toaster oven. I brushed both sides with oil and placed them on the top rack with a baking pan on the lower rack to catch drips. Nothing else I tried worked. This method is perfect.
I love corn tortillas and I get great ones from a local vendor. Problem is I have to buy a large pack and freeze half as I can't eat them fast enough. The tricks here helped tremendously. I thawed the tortillas and did the 1/2 sec dip method and put them in a lightly oil skillet that was very hot. They came out just about good as fresh.
I’ve always used a little oil to reheat tortillas if I don’t want them dry but adds extra calories. I love these water hacks and will try them now!
as a long time fan, one of your best videos yet. clear, concise, and practical
Would a bamboo steamer basket also do the trick? Or would that be to much moisture?
You mean for like Bao / dumplings? I’ve used one before but tortillas need much less moisture than dumplings do! Let me know if you try it and how it works for you 😊
Yeah per the other comment, that seems a bit overkill for this. So long as the tortillas are covered and there's enough moisture, you should be good with just even the towels.
you saying barkley put such a huge smile in my face. so incredibly happy for you bro.
I literally got a tortilla press bc this hot guy from the internet told me. And he was right they’re so so much better than store bought
I like frying my corn tortillas in oil and building the taco in the pan, frying it on both sides. the cheese melts perfectly and the tortilla is a combination of crunchy and chewy. so good
I have never damped my tortillas store-bought or not just a very hot comal and steam them in a towel after heating them up
Last comment, I've had my warmer for a month or so & its held up great! I microwave the tortillas, so for the water I barely wet my hand & just flick some into the holder. 15-20 tortillas will stay warm for 40 mins even with the frequent opening. 5/5
I genuinely didn’t know this about corn tortillas. Thanks!
a steamer basket seems like the perfect application for this, it could keep way more than a single serving of tortilla's warm and pliable depending on the basket and it would be way easier to reheat since it serves as both a warmer and a reheater.
Thank you so much! This is the video I was looking for. Very organized and showed different methods.
I buy the same brand in store and they last almost a month in the fridge. I fry them before eating or wrapping enchiladas, but I normally double them up to so the middle is soft.
Just bought the fabric warmer, i'm so excited!
I prefer the flash fried corn tortillas for ground beef, chorizo, and/or bean tacos and also enchiladas.
I like the spritz method for the street tacos.
Great vid.
I didn't know that I had to heat corn tortillas. I stumbled across heating the flour ones somehow along the way and they do taste better. I can't put into words how I'm glad that you helped a problem that I never would of realized existed!
They're best fried
@serenityjoy1872
"... that I never *would have* known", or, ".. never *would've* known."
I feel the same! I never even realized there was an issue to be solved, let alone a desire to solve it.
Nobody ever reads the directions. Right on the package it tells you.
as a Mexican chef seeing Jamie Oliver using a tortilla without heating it and calling it a taco instead of tortilla still gives me nightmares to this day.
Those Guerrero tortillas are pretty good for frying or dipping them inside a consume from a birria pot. Using fat to “hydrate” the tortilla instead of steaming/ using water. It also gives color and such a depth of flavor of the meat translated into a tortilla for a taco. Birria is what’s using used for dipping the tortilla in the fat but honestly you can do it with most meats. Chicken might be the hardest but as long as you have a little bit of fat you’ll be fine.
10/10 info. Will likely be buying one of those warmers.
Very helpful thank you
Sadly, here in Germany acces to authentic mexican ingredients or even a simple corn tortilla is basically non-existent. Actually I don't think I have ever seen corn tortillas sold in Germany.
If you're down, I think you can order masa online. Corn tortillas are super easy to make
Yep, my brother moved to South Germany for 3 years and he basically ran a small tortilla business doing them at home. Takes practice but it is not more difficult that making brownies
In some Edekas you can find them in the refrigerated snack aisle, but it’s a once in a blue moon experience for sure! And also I live in Hamburg, might be worse or better elsewhere 😅
I buy it from Edeka Simmel in Munich. 100% corn. The real deal.
Some Edeka shops in Berlin will have them. But we buy masa harina in a local Mexican shop here in Berlin and make them ourselves.
My local Latin foods store sells huitlacoche, I'm willing to bet I can find decent tortillas there.
I absolutely would NOT spoon uncooked cake mix into my mouth.
Promise 🤞
The reality that people are just eating these cold ass tortillas without steaming is horrifying.
When I moved into my new place I bought a bunch of corn tortillas, but I didn't have a microwave or a nonstick skillet to heat them up in. I tried using a stainless steel pan but it just stuck and made a mess, lol. I bought some cheap non-stick cookware and was so happy to finally be able to eat them, lol.
Despite my family not using water that much, instead just opting just for the camal, they still come out relatively still pliable once we’ve let them sit. I suppose it’s mostly since when we have them sit in the towel they almost are steamed. Though I’ll have to give this a try, maybe compare water/no water on the camal.
my condolences to anybody who knows someone who eats tortillas without steaming them
I bought two packs of vacuum sealed corn tortillas and warmed them in the microwave, as per instructions - they crumbled like nothing and just weren't...nice. gonna try this tip next time!
Lol, I've been getting store store tortillas and just toasting them dry on a pan, and even doing just that theyre very tasty and dont fall apart when I make tacos with them, but you're right- boy howdy are they dry 😅
I'll have to start adding some moisture when I'm toasting them for some steaminess
Flour doesn't compare to the beautiful aroma of corn tortillas. Thanks IS!
We don’t have a microwave rn, waiting for the kitchen remodel to get a nice one like bet shaq, but we wrap those ‘tillas in foil and steam ‘em up in the oven
when i was a kid my dads girlfriends kids would eat raw crunchy ramen noodles with the seasoning pack sprinkled over. so i dont have to imagine that one
i think the softening of flour tortillas is more about starch retrogradation, i see the hardening and softening again with heat with flatbread made with no fat
Excellent video!
I'll go make some fajitas now with some steamed corn tortillas!
Thank you.
Mad respect for using a Yiddish term for the extreme case.
We do a plant-based diet with no oils and very few processed foods. My husband's cardio doctor put him on this diet and more and more hospitals and doctors are doing this for their patients. If people are going to use oils then it would be faster just to buy them. I think the reason to make them is for a healthier outcome.
What.
I like my tacos with slightly crispy corn tortillas. I usually try to fry store bought ones up in the pan a bit with oil, but I get pretty inconsistent results. Any recommendations?
Argh. I just threw out a bag that I now know I could have rehydrated. Thx! I don’t like the smell of the dough conditioners in commercial flour tortillas though, so I buy corn.
There used to be a tortilla shop neare that had fresh corn tortillas daily, and fresh in house made salsa. I miss it, it sadly died, but God the chilaquiles were ripping during that age
So what did you end up using all of the crumbled tortillas for?
3:55 boy I see you out here Alton Brown-maxxing
This video is brilliant. Everything about it. Subbed.
Very informative! Got a good video on some classic taco fillings? I enjoyed making the Chicken Tinga, which worked pretty well.
I’ve been tosing the the store bought corn tortillas in a fry pan and I thought they tasted great
The taste won’t be improved by adding water to the mix, but it WILL get you into crumplable territory
I clicked on this because my local supermarket has been out of gluten-free bread for weeks and I've been so desperate that I've been wondering about making an almond butter-and-jam tortilla sandwich! Thanks for the info. 😄
Internet Shaquille needs to team up with Internet Kobe for an episode (Internet Kobe is like 5 years old but is also a chef)
If I’m using the insulated fabric warmer, how does water enter that equation? Do I throw some wet paper towels in there? Rub some water on them before putting them in the warmer? Confused by you saying to just nuke them after the first half of the vid talked about returning moisture to the tortillas. Also, is it preferred to heat flour tortillas on the stove?
I thought the same thing, but he answered another comment that asked the same thing. He says just spritz a little water into the bag before you put the tortillas inside. Or you can dab a lttle water on the tortillas before hand
Wow what a great video. How would you heat homemade frozen corn tortillas? I've been making my corn tortillas on Monday for use throughout the week, so I've been freezing them after pressing them. When I heat them directly on a hot cast iron, they crack and crumble. Any advise on how I should heat frozen ones?
I am going to make your chicken tinga today, and eat it with warm pliable tortillas! Perfect timing!
very nice and informative thank you this allows me to make street tacos at home for less than $2.50 apiece thanks again.
this is exactly how you also revive stale rotis. and you keep them wrapped in a moist towel, kept in an insulated hot pot
My wife's family has always used the microwave method for heating many tortillas at the time and their tacos are to die for!
I read through all the comments and rewatched the video to make sure I wasn’t missing something. Can someone help me understand: for the fabric tortilla warmer, am I supposed to wet it or the tortillas to steam the tortillas? I’m assuming the 5/5 tortilla.
I usually give my corn tortillas a quick fry in vegetable oil, with the goal to make them pliable and tender, with a tiny bit of crispyness around the edges. Overshooting the time unfortunately results in a tough and chewy tortilla.
Theres a good tortilla factory in Austin that makes the best corn tortillas. Never dry out the package but with no preservatives. Sell to a lot of restaurants around town
I use the 5's for mini enchiladas, the olds are way cheaper, just soaked in the sauce to make flexible
Can you speak to the practice of either dunking in enchilada sauce, or brushing with something like vegetable oil and then baking (what ATK recommends). Are those methods also seen as traditional or at least acceptable? Any rules for when or why?
he has a video where he makes enchiladas divorciadas, which you dunk in green/red sauce th-cam.com/video/7_ESiRCf3Cc/w-d-xo.html
First video I’ve seen from you, but you saved tonight’s dinner that’s a EZ sub 😂
Gracias, mijo! This pocha just needed a little hand holding!
Excellent video, but it will not stop me from eating cold, dry tortillas at 3 AM.
ngl that crumble test at 2:30 has strong your tortilla vs turboflex tortilla vibes
I fry my corn tortillas. When done right it makes them taste even better. I use a 6 inch cast iron skillet with a quarter to half inch of oil. The tortilla goes in (when it's hot enough to instantly sizzle), gets flipped, folded, and cooks for a total of 15 to 20 seconds. I don't like crispy tortillas unless I am scooping guac. Let drain on paper towel then fill with all your fav taco stuff. When the tortilla stays pliable like this, you can fit a lot more in each taco and your meal won't explode on the first bite. I know Shaq is the expert, but I have made over 10,000 tacos in my life and I've gained a little experience. Cheers.
Shaq did you know with just two store bought flour tortillas, some bagged shredded cheese, and a microwave you can make a quesadilla.
or, wax paper bag > microwave one minute > keep in wax paper bag as you eat to keep warm and flexible is a pretty reliable, nearly zero cost solution to this one.
Theres two things you got wrong in this video: Crunchy ramen is kinda good lol and I absolutely have spooned boxed cake mix into my mouth.