The tortillawith its perfect round shape, has been with us since the year 500 BC. That is why it is almost incredible that at one point in history this food was square.
It happened in 1904. That year the Mexicans Everardo Rodriguez Y Louis Romero created what would be the first device for make tortillas massively. His invention consisted of laminated rollers that carried the dough to a comalmaking the product come out perfectly cooked.
The square tortillas of Everardo and Luis
We can say that up to this point everything was going well, since the machine tortilla machine produced the discs at a faster rate than the people who made them by hand. However the tortillas came out square.
But was it an accident that they were shaped like that or maybe a defect they couldn’t fix? According to the originmexico.com page, Everardo Rodríguez and Luis Romero not only wanted to innovate with the creation of the first device to create “corn bread”, but also sought to change the way in which Mexicans ate them until then.
Mexicans did not adapt to square tortillas
But they were not successful, the Mexicans of that time rejected them, they did not get used to their new shape, they considered that being square could not contain food efficiently, that is, this four-sided tortilla did not serve to form tacos.
Over time, the square tortillas of Everardo Rodríguez and Luis Romero ceased to be produced. Although his invention, the first tortilla machineserved for others Mexican inventors continue perfecting new prototypes.
Fausto Celorio’s tortilla machine
Until 30 years later, a man from Veracruz named Faust Celorioproduced the automatic tortilla machinewhich consisted of a head of rollers pressure rolled and a conveyor chain that reached a griddle with two turns capable of producing 16 thousand tortillas per day.
With some modifications, Celorio’s tortilla machine is the technology used throughout the country to this day, and much further afield, but yes, producing circular tortillas as Mexicans have always liked.
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