Cutting Board Tortilla Press

I have a pretty small kitchen and that means limited cabinet space. This forces me to pick and choose my kitchen utensils wisely.

For how often I make tortillas, I just couldn't justify taking up a bunch of space with a tortilla press.

Not only that, I have used some cast iron presses with warped faceplates which makes creating a tortilla of uniform thickness pretty hard.

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This is a quick way to create a tortilla press out of objects you already have in your kitchen.

Cutting Board (2)

Ziplock Bag (Gallon)

Scissors

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Tortilla Dough

• Cut the two sides of the ziplock bag.

This bag is going to line the inside of your press for easy removal of tortillas.

• Take your ziplock bag and cover the bottom cutting board with half of it.
• The middle of the bag should line up with the edge of the bottom board.
• Put dough ball in middle of board and tamp down slightly.
• Flip ziplock over the top of dough ball.

• Take the second board and press down on top of dough ball.
• Try to keep pressure even.
• Remove top board.

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Note: You may have to rock back and forth a little to spread dough out to a tortilla thickness.

• Peel the top half of ziplock away from the tortilla.
• It should peel away easy. If not, your dough is too wet.
• Pick up bottom half of ziplock with tortilla and press up on edge slightly to raise tortilla away from the plastic.
• Carefully peel tortilla away and set aside.

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Repeat with remaining dough balls.