I’ve made my own tortillas for years using Maseca brand Masa. I just more or less follow directions; I generally use 4 cups masa, a couple of pinches of salt, and warm water to make a soft but not sticky dough, sort of knead in a good size stainless steel bowl until it’s a nice ball, and then make balls first, not small ones. Big tortillas means less time cooking.
I have a tortilla press - tinned iron; I’ve seen different kinds. You have to put plastic on it or the dough sticks. I just slice a plastic produce bag so it’s an rectangle, and put part of it on the lower and part on the upper part of the tortilla press.
Press em, and cook on an ungreased cast iron frying pan I use for that purpose, I turn them once or twice, and put in a bun/tortilla warmer (a round flattish thing with a lid) lined with a clean dish towel. I butter them one by one, we used to eat them a lot until I found that Maseca probably uses GMO corn.
Now I have at least 2 buckets of masa and need to figure out if it really is GMO corn or not.
I have a very heavy press, the tinned iron one I guess, and an aluminum one.
People that want to play around with this should know that they can buy the Masa for very cheap, and just use the bottom of pie pans or something to make a few tortillas to see if they like doing it, before they buy the (about $12.00?) press.
Thanks for the tortilla recipe help. I’ll buy the flour tomorrow and try it (and think kind thoughts of you!)