CONTINUOUS PROCESS FOR MAKING A WHEAT TORTILLA

摘要

A continuous process for making a wheat tortilla or other similar products using a continuous pressing step that occurs during a continuous oven initial cooking step or immediately thereafter. Applicants' invention produces a final product with characteristics of a traditionally cooked flour tortilla using equipment that provides for significant increases in manufacturing throughput. The combination of the continuous oven with the concurrent, or relatively concurrent, pressing step substitutes for the hot pressing plates used in previous methods.