— Melissa Bryant

You know, I've got this tortilla press that's about that big okay, with a round surface, right? Just a little bit smaller than that. And it's this cast pot metal, um, thing that I brought back from, um, Mexico when I was studying down there in college, many, many, many moons ago now. And, uh, so that's what I use. Um, and that's a, a fairly common size. There are these larger wooden ones, you know, that I see, um, a lot of, uh, you know, Mexican cooks using, um, the, the bigger, the better in a way, right? It just gives you more, um, opportunity to vary what it is that you're making. Um, I'm just limited by the size of this thing, but it makes perfect, uh, you know, satisfying, uh, tortillas, uh, for, for us. Um, how do we hold them? We have this container, um, that is insulated and it's actually, uh, was marketed as a chapati container, so I brought it from India, but you might be able to find something at an Indian grocery store, go to their utensil section where the pots and things are, and I've seen them here in the us. Um, so you might be able to find something like that. But, um, you know, they're yay big. They're gonna hold, uh, um, a reasonable sized tortilla. If you make, um, you know, in the case of chapatis or other flatbreads that are often larger, you just fold them into porters, and then you stack 'em inside the container. Um, it comes with this little strainer at the bottom to let the condensation roll down underneath it so you don't end up with soggy tortillas. And then on top, you know, it just stack 'em up. It's got a, a lid, tight fitting lid. And if, if your stack is so big that it touches the top of the container, put a paper towel on there to absorb the moisture so you don't have a, a soggy tortilla on top. Um, that's our method. Um, any of the others that you mentioned work great too. Um, generously layer some, um, some big kitchen towels or whatever towels you want, uh, into a basket that works great. Uh, just the towels themselves work fine, you know, as, uh, any sort of a container stone, stoneware or otherwise, uh, can work well too.