/c/Vent: Vent about your life here

That is the best way, yeah

But you can roll out the dough easy enough, or press it using heavy pans and a cutting board (though a roller is better). If you don't have a proper rolling pin, a big enough glass bottle works.

The flour, that's a big barrier. No flour of any kind = no bread of any kind. But, if you would be going to the store for tortillas, you can get flour and whatever else you'd want to use.

You really only need flour & masa, fat and water. The king Arthur site has a solid 50/50 recipe, that can be tweaked for different ratios with little or no trouble. I favor lard over coconut oil myself, but coconut oil works fine

The baking powder isn't necessary (or useful tbh). I'm not really sure why they use it, because the one time I tried it, it didn't do anything at all. Tortillas aren't going to rise enough to be a benefit from it.

A flat pan, yeah, you kinda need something flat to cook them on, but any pan you have should be flat enough. It doesn't take a specialty pan at all. The folks a few doors down from me that are actual Mexicans use a cast iron skillet, not anything special.

Ngl, if you're going to make them a lot, a press is much faster. But you can usually pick up used ones on ebay cheap, if you wanted to go that route. I don't use one though. I make them maybe four or five times a year? So a press seems like a waste of space in our already full kitchen. I make them on my kitchen table with just my old rolling pin. I have arthritis too, so it isn't like I'm really pressing them super hard with it. Just medium pressure and patience.

Masa isn't always available everywhere though. We have it way out here in the mountains though, so I don't doubt you could at least order some online, if you wanted to spend the time and energy.

No joke, I know what you mean by something like that being a bit more work than it's worth when you're working and trying to live an active life. I have nothing but time, being disabled, so the tiny cost savings coupled with the enjoyment of it is enough for me to be willing to sometimes, but not every time.

But, I'd say a batch big enough for 4 people having two or three meals is maybe an hour of work for me? A little longer or shorter, depending on how I'm doing that day. For one person, that's a lot of tortillas, and they store okay. A few days just sitting around, maybe a week in the fridge, with a loss of texture. They can be frozen, but I tink the texture goes to crap, and they fall apart too easy once defrosted