Tortilla-making machine
Máquina tortilladora
- Date
- c. 1947 · confidence low
- Place
- Mexico City, Mexico
- Credited to
- Fausto Celorio and other Mexican inventors
- Field
- Life & health
⚠️ Disputed: the sources disagree.
What it is
Machines that roll out nixtamalised maize dough, cut it into discs and cook them on a continuous comal belt. They mechanised the heaviest daily chore of Mexican women.
There were patents from the early 20th century; Celorio's automatic tortilla machine is placed in the 1940s-1960s, and dates vary by source.
What it led to
- industrial tortilla shops (tortillerías) in Mexico
- hours of domestic labour freed up