What is the difference between stone-ground corn and maseca?
Whereas most tortilla producers have gone the way of refined corn flour (maseca) in making their corn tortillas, Bueno Foods still grinds all its corn the old-fashioned, traditional way. Tens of thousands of years ago, our ancestors used a flat stone called a metate to grind corn. Today, we carry on this tradition by incorporating ancient lava rocks from Mexico into our machinery to grind the corn and by employing a Master Craftsman to maintain the grinding stones by sculpting and etching them by hand. Even though we are one of the few manufactures who still grind corn in this traditional manner, we hold onto the tradition because the result is a superior corn tortilla with full bodied, true corn flavor and authentic texture.
