Fresh, hot-off-the-stove-top tortillas will make anyone’s mouth water. This delightful bread can be filled with a wide range of meats, vegetables, and cheeses, creating the perfect meal. The incredible versatility and light taste of these pieces of bread lend themselves to nearly any taste palette as well. If you’re ready to try making your own tortillas, we recommend using a tortilla press. All you need to do is roll your tortilla dough into a ball and place it in the middle of the press on butcher paper. Close the press so that it presses the tortilla out to the correct shape. Flip the tortilla once to get an even creation and then move it to your pan to cook. Now that you know how to use one, here are our favorite tortilla presses for your kitchen.
This tortilla press offers a simple, traditional design that appeals to us. It contains lightweight material, so we can comfortably use the press repeatedly, even if we need to make large numbers of shells. The style of this press was also engineered to last through countless tortillas, making this a good selection if you find yourself regularly cooking batches of mouth-watering tortillas.
The manufacturer wants to make it easy for people to use right away, so they included your first 100 pieces of parchment paper, which will help you create your first tortillas without worrying about the dough sticking to the press. The press offers a flat, even surface, and a firm closure so that you can make your tortillas in a single motion. We appreciated the versatility this press also offered, as it can also help you prepare foods such as mini pie shells, dumplings, and empanadas.
The heavy design of this tortilla press works to its advantage as you begin making your tortilla shells. We like the firm closure of this press, which helped us easily create flat, uniformly thick tortilla shells. The cast iron design also helps to ensure that this press will last for a long time and is capable of producing large numbers of tortillas. To further enhance its design, the handle has a special shape and angle to make it ergonomic, simplifying the creation of delicious, perfect tortillas.
This tortilla maker was designed to make it simple to enjoy the delicious taste of fresh, homemade tortillas. The lightweight design makes it easy for any cook to put to use while the handle shape and location enhances leverage. We found that the combination of these features simplifies the process of pressing out the dough into a delicious tortilla. Like most tortilla makers, this press does work best with parchment paper, but it has also been designed to be easy to clean. Lightly washing it down between uses will ensure that it is always ready to go as soon as you are prepared to make more tortillas. This particular press will also come with a recipe, so those who have not made tortillas before can feel confident moving right into their first batch.
The design of this tortilla press has explicitly been reinforced and created with heavy-duty construction to ensure that it will hold up to constant tortilla making. The base and the handle have been redesigned in this particular model to avoid pinching fingers while also providing perfectly shaped tortillas each time. This cast-iron press was pre-seasoned with non-GMO vegetable flaxseed oil to help enhance the taste of anything prepared within the press. It also works with a wide range of flours, including corn, gluten-free, and paleo flours.
