Cookbook talk:Burrito
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Is the flatulance comment realy necsessary? I found it rather unapatising.
- Farting is the primary reason most people avoid beans, so it needs to be addressed. The overnight soaking and multi-hour simmering with water changes would be a rather mysterious procedure if it wasn't explained. People should know what happens if they cut the procudure short - this knowledge will save people both ways, because the procedure is rather annoying. If you live alone and have a stuffed up nose, you can stop when the beans are soft. If otherwise, you'll know that merely softening the beans is not enough and you can't cut corners.
[edit] Optional ingredients
I've moved everything besides the tortilla and the "beans and/or meat" to the optional section. Those are really the only two neccessary ingredients to make a burrito - the rest is all up to preference - various herbs and spices are obviously optional, tomatoes I think are nice, but I've made lots of burritos without them, and lots of vegans make burritos, so the cheese is certainly optional, etc. --w:User:Blackcats
- That would be a Vegan Burrito or Burrito (Vegan) then. We do this for many other recipes. A vegan "burrito" is only distantly related to a burrito. It's not normal to shove everything into the "optional" section. Advanced cooks are expected to know that they can eliminate ingredients as desired. Beginners need decent advice, which means that leaving out the normal major ingredients is not OK. Besides, even for the advanced cooks, it's better to see at a glance which ingredients are important. AlbertCahalan 18:41, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
Having grown up in Texas, I never had a burrito until the 1980's when I didn't live in Texas anymore!! My guess is that burritos are from California. The primary issue is the flour tortilla. I never even heard of flour tortillas growing up. Furthermore, having traveled extensively in Mexico during the 1960's, we NEVER saw a flour tortilla. We always had CORN tortillas. I don't think wheat is something that is grown very often in Mexico.
All this said to emphasize that burritos ARE NOT classic Tex-Mex cuisine.
