Christ on a bike...literally, the first sentence in my post is thus:
Or, you could just make life easy and buy the Old El Paso whole wheat tortillas . 5.80 for 6.
The packaging calls them fajitas, but they are tortillas. Which is what i referred to in the above post.
Isnt it sad when an otherwise well-researched post fails due to not reading the post youre railing against well enough...
I love how you assume the ingredients you put in the machine are magically additive-free. You might want to double check how flour you buy in a store is actually processed. I assure you it is not 'additive free'. Neither is the oil you use.
But yeah, you keep pretending food additives are not a thing.
For equipment and ingredients, I go to Aggarwal in Zürich near Helvetiaplatz. The tava pan is 10chf, a belan rolling pin is 5chf, and the bag of Atta Chapati flour is a few francs, or 10chf for a huge bag. I checked the ingredients, and since it's mostly Ruchmehl I've tried that as well and it does work. Saves a trip to the indian store, since Migros/coop have Ruchmehl of course.
Just in case anyone wants to try their hand at it the traditional way, these are some very helpful resources I've found.
If you ok with that than it will make life easy...Hopefully!!!
It is a bit noisy and very expensive though. I prefer my wife's rotis for sure but I can certainly see a place in the market for the roti-matic, especially as it becomes faster, less noisy, and less expensive.
Again I get that when you make a roti once or twice a year you don't see the point of this device. I feel it is more aimed towards South Asian families who make them several times a week.
1. Above all issues of price and noise and cleaning, freshly made rotis taste the best, similar to bread. So please consider satisfaction of eating as well.
2. Rotis are time consuming to make and very difficult to perfect so people make them in batches and store, which is equivalent of frozen rotis, so the idea of getting a fresh roti for each meal without efforts is worth looking into.
3. Even if the cost is approx 1000 dollars over the period of time you might save money by not ordering a takeway or going out much, especially for a big family.
4. Considering a 1000 hefty price tag, if so much cleaning is only required, may be it is not worth and yes the noise too.
But again it is a balance of satisfaction, efforts, headache and price to make a decision to purchase it or not.