• 0 Posts
  • 13 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: August 22nd, 2023

help-circle





  • if you ever feel so inclined, all you need to make your own tortillas at home is:

    1. masa flour aka specially treated corn flour

    2. a stovetop and a pan for cooking

    3. a plastic food storage bag

    4. something with a flat bottom, ideally transparent

    5. water

    the bag of flour typically has instructions for how much flour and water to mix. you can mix it by hand and form it into balls by hand. the size of the balls only matters if you care about the tortillas being “the right size”.

    From there, you press a ball flat, toss it on an already hot pan over medium heat, flip it after a couple of minutes, and remove it after a minute more. to press the ball flat, place it under your flat-bottomed transparent thing and mash on it until it looks tortilla-shaped enough for you.

    the plastic food storage bag is optional/recommended to stop the tortilla balls sticking when you press them. cut the food storage bag open along its seams and remove its zipper if it has one. what you have left is a single sheet of plastic with a seam/hinge in the middle.

    it might be sounding like a lot but it’s really just:

    • mix flour into wet balls

    • mash flour in your “press” made of random flat dishes and a plastic bag

    • cook the thing a little

    • eat

    if you iterate on those 4 steps a dozen times, you’ll be out like 50 cents of flour and you’ll have produced at least one satisfactory tortilla. and it’ll be so, so much better than store bought, you’ll think about it every time you have store bought tortillas therafter.






  • Are you expecting 1TB cloud storage for free?

    Your point stands, but let me point out that when gmail started their “9GB free” thing way back when, that was an unfathomable amount of storage for some of us. And gmail’s not the only service that’s offered huge amounts of free storage over the years. So yeah, I think it’s probable that a bunch of us have been primed to expect free storage.

    edit: Also given how cheap cloud storage is from ie MS Azure

    Depending on storage type you pay $10-$18/mo once you’re using a full TB. If you use less, you pay proportionally less. Dropbox’s 2TB for $10 is a comparatively better deal if you use it all, but if you use 1TB or less it’s not. Which, now that I’m looking at it, probably means their business model is counting on a lot of underutilized storage caps from their subscribers.