What Are the Best Flour Tortillas at the Supermarket?

[Music] on a rare occasion i will make my own flower tortillas but usually i just buy them from the supermarket they're so convenient and jack's here he's going to tell us which ones we should pick up while shopping at the market yes so these are flour tortillas you can jump in if you like we warmed them slightly she thinks yeah i mean we made quesadillas we serve them with a saucy juicy pulled pork filling yeah and then we did this well this is actually a hard tasting the flavor here is pretty much the same across the board flour flour a little bit of salt a little bit of fat water being the fourth main ingredient texture is a bigger difference so i'm gonna make this easier for you since i think this is a difficult tasting in general thinner and fattier is a good thing our favorite brand had just over three grams of fat per serving lower rated brands tended to have two or even fewer grams of fat and our favorite tortilla was just under 1.5 millimeters thick the lower rated brands tended to be over two millimeters and believe it or not that made a difference the big thing here is also the additional ingredients so when you make them at home it's just flour and fat traditionally lard or you can use shortening water and salt but these all have dough conditioners because of course these were made weeks ago maybe months ago this just gets better first of all i'm trying to wrap my head around fattier and thinner if i can't do that i would be a very rich woman well i'm not sure i can help you with that but i'm going to help you with that so dough conditioners are designed to make these things more stable so that they can sort of take that transit from the manufacturing plant to your dining room table the one that we liked the best was something called glycerin which was only in our winter which is designed to help reheat as well as to freeze and thaw better and so that was one dough conditioner that we felt like it was a really good addition to the mix anything that you're noticing this one seems the most seasoned which this one's actually not bad too this one feels like it would make for a really good taco okay this one i'm not too sure of not crazy about the texture just feels very lean but i would say that this is my winner this is your winner yeah isn't it get it wrong yeah you got it wrong [Laughter] actually this brand is recommended flip it over all right so this is mission these are thick and sturdy but they were also delicate it was the one brand that was really thick that we felt like actually cooked up nicely substantial substantial so it's a fine choice it just wasn't the winner which is there yeah so that's old el paso these are six inch we also tasted they're ten inch they're identical except for the fact that they are larger a fan you're not a fan we thought they were super flaky and they were very crisp and delicate and lovely in the quesadilla and yet in here they're not flaky delicate and crisp because you didn't make me a quesadilla this is called sabotage america and then here uh this is ortega that was at the bottom of the rankings we felt like this one was just kind of dense and wasn't as delicate and light and flaky as we wanted it to be so the winner is the old el paso flour tortillas for soft tacos and fajitas and it's about 250 for 10. thanks jack sticking with this one though thanks for watching america's test kitchen what do you think well leave a comment and let us know which recipes you're excited to make or you can just say hello you can find links to today's recipes and reviews in the video description and don't forget to subscribe to our channel see you later i'll see you later

Channel: America's Test Kitchen

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Length: 4min 0sec (240 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 13 2021