Tortilla industrial production

FIGURE 9.3 Equipment commonly used for the industrial production of table tortillas, (a) Open cooking vessel (courtesy of Casa Herrera, Inc.), (b) Vertical cooker, (c) Nixtamal washer (courtesy of Heat and Control, Inc.), (d) Commercial stone grinder. 

Industrial frying is one of the major segments in the frying industry. Fried food in the United States and other countries are prepared and marketed in various forms. The most popular of these products is the salty snack food segment. This segment consists of a wide variety of products such as potato chips, tortilla chips, com chips, extmded products, pretzels, fried or roasted nuts, and so on. Out of all these products, potato chips has been known to the people for a long time. 

Potato chips sales are the highest in the snack food industry. The next big seller is the tortilla chip. Table 5 lists the sales figures for the major snack food products in the United States (5). 

FIGURE 10.8 General flowchart of the hot-press, hand-stretch, or die-cut industrial processes for the production of wheat-flour tortillas. 

What are the three industrial processes used to produce flour tortillas Which one is the most adequate to obtain flour tortillas for the elaboration of frozen products ... 

Maize bran and nejayote were kindly provided by tortilla-making industry in Mexico. Laccase (benzenediol oxygen oxidoreductase, E.C.1.10.3.2) was obtained from Trametes versicolor. All chemical products were purchased from Sigma Chemical Co. (St Louis, MO, USA). 

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