Weighing ingredients, keeping notes and changing one variable are useful across baking. But an ordinary masa-harina corn tortilla does not require a sourdough starter or a fermentation schedule.
Do not transfer wheat-dough rules automatically
Corn masa does not develop the same gluten network as wheat bread dough. A rest for hydration is not the same as bulk fermentation. Pressing, cooking and handling must follow the chosen tortilla method.
Choose the correct reading path
For corn tortillas, begin with masa harina and hydration. A wheat tortilla or a discard tortilla is a different formula; do not add starter to a corn recipe simply because both are flatbreads.
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