pizza wraps too hard!

[luna99]

I used alissa's recipe for the pizza wraps this weekend and instead of spreading it across the teflex sheet completely I made small "personal size" pizza crust type things (little round circles) (hope that makes sense!) ....

well, I dehydrated them the time she said to but they came out pretty hard. While that's ok and I"m still going to eat them, I really wanted them to be more flexible.. like a tortilla type consistency.

should I have just taken them out of the dehydrator a bit early?

I just really would love some sort of pizza/taco/corn wrap that I can use and stuff with things that would be soft and pliable.

thanks everyone!

[SchoolOfRAWk]

I tried her pizza bread once and it didn't work out at all, either. What gives? This was long ago, but STILL. It's not that difficult of a recipe to follow.

Also, go to www.thesunnyrawkitchen.blogspot.com and look up the SANDWICH threat. GREAT veggie wraps are listed there. :-)

[SchoolOfRAWk]

That's "sandwich THREAD" - tee hee!

[Rawkinlocs]

It's been a long time since I made these but when I did, they turned out fine.

Thing is, with ANYthing, you simply cannot rely solely on what the recipe says in terms of dehydrating temps and timeframes - I've found out that depending on where you live and the climate, etc. that sometimes things take longer or shorter times to dry. I witnessed while in CA with Alissa that when she made her rye bagels and calzone, they came out perfectly but when I came back here to WA (where it rains a lot and it's damper) that I had to make adjustments to my drying times and even the temps.

Also, it may depend on how thin or thick you spread something. For example the calzone - someone was making it thinner than what it was intended for making the calzone and the crust kept breaking - after doing some poking, we discovered that she had been making it a little too thin. So, check that factor as well.

But all in all, just check on things after 3 hours to see how much they are progressing and if it's okay to turn it over and don't really rely too much on any one given time.

[Damzlfly]

I made the pizza wraps last week and they came out perfect...I turned the recipe into 8 individual square pizza wraps and they are soo yummy. I froze all but 2 so hopefully they hold up well in there.

[luna99]

hmm.. well, maybe after I eat these I'll give it another go.

[Rawkinlocs]

Luna, a couple more suggestions:

1. This weekend I made some corn tortilla wraps to take with me to a function and I left them in the dehydrator too long. They were not crispy, but they were not pliable either. What I did was to take two dampened paper towels and I put one on either side of the wrap, placed that inside of a ziploc (that step may be optional) and put into the dehydrator and they softened up and were more pliable. So you could try that or...

2. Simply break them up, put into the food processor with some water (a little at a time), process and re-spread/dehydrate for a do-over.

[SchoolOfRAWk]

GREAT advice, Rawkinlocs! :-)

[luna99]

GREAT advice, Rawkinlocs! :-)

yes it is.. thank you! I like that damp paper towel idea. I'll give it a try! :D