Baking and deep frying are separate cooking methods with different oil quantities and equipment. A spoonful of oil for coating chips is not a deep-frying quantity.
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Choose a complete method for the tortillas being used; corn and flour tortillas brown differently. For deep frying, stay at the stove, use appropriate equipment and keep water away from hot oil. If oil smokes, turn off the heat. Never put water on an oil fire.
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For quantities, use the hydration reference or arithmetic guides. For a complete cooking method, choose one of the published recipe references and follow its ingredients, equipment and process together.
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- Reference: A gluten-free claim requires no prohibited gluten grain and less than 20 ppm unavoidable gluten; oats and other grains can have cross-contact risk.
- Reference: Stay with high-heat cooking, turn heat off if oil smokes, keep a lid or baking sheet nearby, and cover a pan fire.
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