Uno Casa Tortilla Press Cast Iron - 8 Inch, Pre-Seasoned Tortilla Maker with 100 Pcs Parchment Paper - Roti Maker Chapati Machine, Taco Press Cast Iron for Authentic Cooking

Good quality and arrived very quickly, I'm pleased with my purchase.

I really liked learning to make my own tacos with this press. It’s a quality bit of traditional style cast iron kit. Comes with a reasonable supply of paper discs too. Another thing to store - and it’s quite heavy, so you wouldn’t want to damage something else while you move it in or out of your cupboard. It’s not big but you do need a bit of space somewhere directly on a shelf - not on top of something else.

I like flatbreads and I am really pleased with this simple device for making them.I have just bough some proper PAN flour to make more authentic Spanish version and I look forward to using this authentic bit of kit to make them.Basically it is two circles of cast iron with a hinge at one edge that pivots open, to put your mixture in, the squashes it flat when you press the hinges plates back together.The company supply sheets to go in the press but these are hopeless, as everything sticks to them.Better just to keep the press nice and clean and just use a spray of oil on eack plate to stop sticking.Being castbiron it will rust if you put it away damp, so make sure you dry it thoroughly after each cleaning.I put mine on the kitchen radiator to dry it properly, then spray some oil on the plates and sandwich a kitchen paper towel between them.So far it has worked.It comes with a spare hinge bolt - which I’m not sure is a good thing or not!?Do they expect it to break?Overall it’s a great and pretty cheap way of getting authentic flatbreads.

good quality, very impressed

I have never had so much work with, and so little pleasure from, a cooking utensil I have bought.First of all, what is this thing and how is it meant to be used? If you look at the Amazon description, it is a tortilla *press* only: you make the dough, you roll it into a ball, you put it between two parchment sheets, you press it, you remove the parchment from the dough, you fry the tortilla in the pan. Right? Well, when I followed this process, the parchment was impossible to remove from the tortilla - the dough was stuck, and trying to remove the parchment simply destroyed the tortilla.Secondly, the instructions which come with the device explicitly state you are meant to use it on a stove. OK, so it's not just a tortilla press, it's actually a device to use on the stove to cook the tortilla as well? So that's where I went wrong? Once the tortilla is cooked, it will peel off easily, right? Wrong! I ended up with a cooked tortilla stuck to this thing and an utter mess to clean.OK, so I washed it. The instructions which come with it are then clear that after washing it, you must season it. So I oiled it up with a thin layer of oil and put it in the oven for an hour as per the instructions, at the maximum temperature the oven will bear. Only - the two parts of it are permanently stuck together with a rivet, so it will only fit in an oven closed. So when I pulled it out of the oven, the exact thing I had feared had happened: the seasoning oil had glued the two halves together. After prying it open (and getting my fingers all blue with bruises in the process), I saw that inside, the seasoning oil was not properly carbonized, so there was a oil-slick-like rainbow-effect layer in the middle, where the surface had not been properly seasoned.I have not made a single thing with this thing yet, it has not made me a single tortilla, I have wasted some dough, a lot of time, and I now seem to have an utensil which is covered with a toxic oil slick.In the meantime, I pulled out a rolling pin and had the other 7 tortilla rolled in about a minute in total.While a beautiful-looking utensil, it is a total waste of time, and the sparse, incorrect and self-contradictory instructions make it completely useless. Is it a tortilla press or a tortilla cooker? Between the instructions you get on Amazon and the instructions you get with the device, both are claimed. It seems to do neither.

As my first press, this is a great product and one that will likely last a good while. The rolling is one of my least favourite tasks while making wraps, so this helps me get through them quickly and more uniformly.My only gripe is that for storage, the handle is shipped detached inside the box, so I cannot store it in the original box nicely without detaching the handle each time - it isn't difficult but more of an annoyance.

Because I'm gluten intolerant, I thought I'd buy a tortilla press to make corn tortillas which are hard to find here in the UK.In order to use the product, you really have to be strong to press the tortillas so that they're flat enough to be considered a tortilla. I don't think this is a problem exclusive to this tortilla press, because I've seen a lot of food recipe bloggers roll out their tortillas with a rolling pin after using their cast iron press. This is something I wish I knew prior to choosing my press. Seeing my husband do it properly, you have to bend the lever in towards the cast iron press then use all your might to pump it a couple of times until it becomes flat.Since you need to use a lot of pressure to flatten tortillas, the screw joints used to connect the lever to the press aren't strong enough. Ours ended up breaking after less than 10 uses, and we've been trying to use different nuts and bolts we have lying around the house to compensate.Do also keep in mind that since it's cast iron, you'll need to take proper care of it - dry it immediately after washing, then add some oil to it, otherwise it will rust.

very easy to use , perfect sized taco/tortilla/ fajitas , makes home cooking more fun for the family and fresher food easy.