They have a good point. I did research into cornbread for a project and it’s suffered from the same issue as tortillas. Most cornmeal that you buy in the store nowadays tastes like sawdust and has to be enriched with a bunch of stuff to make it preserve longer. Originally southern-style cornbread had zero added sugar in it, but most recipes nowadays call for a tablespoon of sugar to balance out the flavor of the sawdust cornmeal so it ends up just tasting like nothing. You don’t do that if you use good, heirloom corn, and it actually has flavor.
It ultimately comes down to the quality of the corn and the method that they use to process it and to maximize profits. Stone ground cornmeal yields a better product, but is less efficient.
I’m going to be honest here, I’m highly skeptical of the quality of cornmeal leading to lower quality tortillas. This is mainly because we already know why they are bad in the states. Not to mention the comment iteself is written like it was a conclusion made in conjecture.
Please cite the study you read/wrote that concludes cornmeal is the reason behind why corn tortillas are so bad in the us and that the deterioration of cornmeal is what led to it.
(Spoiler for anyone reading this, they didn’t have a source and were talking out of their ass about this subject. 0 evidence to back up their claim. Typical of lemmy.)
The quality of any ingredients has a huge effect on the intensity of flavors. Check out the differences in free range/ field chicken eggs vs indoor/caged/ feed eggs
I don’t need to check out the differences in other foods because that isn’t relevant to this discussion. It may be relevant but then you would need to provide evidence of that connection, when it would be probably easier to cite the original source they spoke of, instead of having to provide two different sets of data.
I’m also curious how the degradation of cornmeal even happened, which I’m sure this study would touch on.
Used to live near a tortillaria that made fresh blue corn tortillas. Had to get there early because they would sell out fast, but man they were good.
Never had blue corn tortillas. Are they very different from other corn tortillas?
Unless you’re like a person who is astute at picking up very minute differences, you likely won’t taste a difference.
All the downvotes don’t really help. But I guess that’s a contentious opinion. ha
This is a shitpost?
Just hot air.
I’ve been making my own tortillas for a decade and I can tell you there’s nothing newly wrong with the corn flour. It’s the same it’s always been.
Yeah it’s always best to have heirloom with minimal processing, but I’d rather have 100 homemade tortillas with basic nixtamalized corn flour for $3 not $30
This article is a bunch of wind.
I know I wanted some variety in the news as of lately – did not see this headline coming.
