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Julie Bove[_2_]

"bigwheel" > wrote in message
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> 'Julie Bove[_2_ Wrote:
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>> Havent ever got a good one from the store and very few Mexican
>> Restaurants have any that are worth a flip either. Now I have heard a
>> rumor of some good ones which can found in the frozen food section but
>> aint never tried em or recall the brand right now. They are very easy
>> to make at home with a bread machine on the dough setting.
>> Flour..salt..grease and water is all it takes.-
>>
>> Not in my bread machine. It only makes loaves of bread. And once
>> started,
>> it's locked until the bread is baked. No way to just knead a dough and
>> take
>> it out. But... I think it wouldn't be worth the time to try to make
>> the
>> dough to make one measly tortilla at a time.
>>
>> I have tried frozen tortillas but I dislike such things when frozen.
>> The
>> only way to really make them work is to defrost them all and then you
>> have
>> to use them all. You can't really take one out from the frozen state.
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> Never heard of a bread machine like you got. Maybe you could just unplug
> it and dump out the raw dough before it started cooking itself? Sure you
> could do the same thing with a KA Mixer with a dough hook. Anything to
> try to save all the hand kneading by the cute mamacita. I use 3 cups
> flour which makes about 12 pretty good sized torts. Thanks for the heads
> up on the frozen models. Knew there was likely some reason I had not
> bought any of those.

Unplugging it won't help. It won't unplug when unlocked. It's old and it
was cheap. And I don't have a KA mixer. I do have a Bosch. But I prefer
to mix by hand for most things.