Help with serving tacos to small crowd

[Kellydelly]

Need help with how to heat and serve flour tortillas for a group. I only ever make them for 6 people but today I am having 20 eating them . Do I just heat them up in the pan and put them in a covered dish? I don't have fancy tortilla servers. I also have corn taco shells, what do I do with those? Help ! TIA for any advice !

 

[ronandannette]

I'd wrap them in foil in bundles of six and keep them in a low oven...take them out a package at a time as needed.

 

[lovemygoofy]

You can warm up the flour tortillas in the microwave between damp towels. NOT wet towels but just damp towels. You can do groups of 3 in between damp towels and probably warm up 6-9 at a time by layering between tortillas and damp towels. After they are warmed up wrap up in tin foil and if you want to keep at a warm temp, you can keep them on low/warm in a crockpot or throw in a casserole dish and keep on warm in the oven.

For taco shells, warm up in the oven in a casserole dish and then tin foil the top of the casserole dish and top with a lid if possible. You could also keep those warm in a crock pot if you would like.

You are going to be warming a lot of tortillas!

 

[luvsJack]

Are the corn ones taco shells or corn tortillas?

The micro with the damp paper towels is the best way for flour, so they don't dry out.

 

[kacaju]

Do you really need to heat them? When we were home and have tacos I never heat the hard corn shells or the soft flour ones

 

[Jingle]

You can warm up the flour tortillas in the microwave between damp towels. NOT wet towels but just damp towels. You can do groups of 3 in between damp towels and probably warm up 6-9 at a time by layering between tortillas and damp towels. After they are warmed up wrap up in tin foil and if you want to keep at a warm temp, you can keep them on low/warm in a crockpot or throw in a casserole dish and keep on warm in the oven.

For taco shells, warm up in the oven in a casserole dish and then tin foil the top of the casserole dish and top with a lid if possible. You could also keep those warm in a crock pot if you would like.

You are going to be warming a lot of tortillas!

I think this is a good method!

 

[BadgerGirl84]

I'm half Mexican and on my Mexican side of the family we heat up corn and flour tortillas in a pan on the stove (or sometimes tight on the burner of a gas stove) then put them in a tortilla warmer...either styrofoam or ceramic.

Thank goodness you are heating them...I went to a taco party once where they didn't heat the tortillas...just served them out of the bag from the store and that was not very appetizing to me.

 

[WDWAurora]

We steam flour soft shells for parties and they come out great. I would just do a taco bar and lay it all out. No need for you to assemble everything.

 

[Kellydelly]

Thanks for all the advice ! I think I will heat them up in the pan and wrap in foil and see how that method works.

 

[Flrancho]

I've always heated flour tortillas on a pan over the stove and warmed corn tortillas via the oven.

 

[Kellydelly]

I've always heated flour tortillas on a pan over the stove and warmed corn tortillas via the oven.

That is how I would normally do it for my family. I ended up just standing the stove and heating them one at a time and handing them out as people built their tacos .