The Art of the Deal (if the deal was a breakfast taco)

20stone said:

I love this post, and any post that makes my mouth water right after I have stuffed myself. 

Bacon grease fried tater tots are genius.  I am more of a hand-raised-and-grated hash browns guy, but I know how good your way tastes. 

For those of you without regular access to tacos, breakfast or otherwise, you have to give this a shot. They will change your life for the better, except for your cholesterol.

Advice for the nubes - if you buy tortillas, flour are easier to handle. Heat em up in a dry, but shiney w oil CI. Microwaves are a tool of the devil, and only suitable for softening ice cream. 

Another tool of the devil that comes in handy is... The toaster oven.

Advantage is that you can heat up 2- 3 at a time . Pop 'em in until they just start to puff up (corn tortillas won't puff up as much). Remove and place in a tortilla box or wrap in a kitchen towel. If they don't puff, then you don't have the right tortillas. 

And +1 for the mixed corn+flour tortillas from HEB. 

northGAcock said:

I am a big fan of the breakfast burrito and the taco. A fresh made tortilla in in SC is impossible to come by. Big case of jealousy from this camp.

Time to build some skills. Corn tortillas have two ingredients (if you start w masa harina, like a dirty cheater), and flour has three. 

We are talking breafast tacos, here.  It's time to step up

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

And neither does the guy trying to get you to press your own . I've been to the store with him to buy tortillas more than once. 

That was before.  I have new toys now.  I also have HEB pretty close by. 

cazzy said:

Yes yes yes!!

We do the same often, but a few small differences.  Fry some bacon, then I cube up some potatoes and fry em in the bacon fat.  I usually don't cut up the bacon and everyone in the house prefers fried eggs (over medium and over easy).  We kind smash the egg and yolk with a fork in the tortilla.  I just use a strip of bacon and the girls tear it.  Lol

For the tortillas, I usually use Tortilla Land refrigerated raw or HEB flour/corn tortillas.

Damn you, now I want tacos!

This is what we do. They are the breakfast of champions. 

northGAcock said:  
I'm game....what does one use at home to flatten them out? Make on the flat griddle? Help a brother out.

The ladies on America's Test Kitchen showed a pretty neat trick a couple months ago.  They took a large "sandwich" bag, cut off the top seal and sliced one side, leaving two plastic sheets sealed on two adjacent sides.
Placed a ball of kneaded masa in between the sheets in the center, then pressed down on it with a glass pie plate.  Brilliant!  Because both the bag and the plate were transparent, you could easily see not just the size of the resulting tortilla, but could even see the thickness/evenness.  I don't know if this would work equally well with a flour tortilla, they just used corn.  
That being said, if I fixed tacos/tortillas on a regular basis I'd get one of the metal presses too.  

Flour tortillas are traditionally rolled.  Guess you could start on the press, but you will have to roll them out before throwing on the flame or comal.  The gluten is at play.

Corn tortillas are pressed.  Huge fan of Bob's Red Mill masa harina.

I love bacon with all my heart, but the first taste of authentic chorizo and eggs by my buddy Tino, was a special food moment in my life.  The grease is the best part.  I can't recall my first bacon kiss, but I'm sure it was special too.