Name: Flex Mex
Uploaded: 2020-03-30T03:33:40.000Z
Duration: 2 min 45 s
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Cut a strip from the middle where it's widest.

And free this long rectangle from the useless wedges

This is how we start our journey towards creating

The hardest part is folding an angle of equal thirds.

you know the principal, approximate, and then

In the case of the tortilla, to get an equilateral triangle,

Unlike paper, this soft and delicious tortilla

is forgiving, adjusting easily rather than

Continue folding one triangle on top of another.

Arrange the strip of triangles into a hexagon.

This will help you to arrange the overlap so that it

is symmetric, woven together in the same way you would fold

the flaps on top of a box to support each other.

In paper, I might use 9 triangles, and then

For tortilla, use 10 and attach the first to the last.

Score the tortilla lightly with a knife to ruff it up.

And then use your fingers to wet it with water.

The water combines with the flour in the tortilla.

And by pressing the triangles firmly to one another,

Thus, a tortilla hexaflexagon is created.

It can be flexed by pinching two triangles together and pushing

in the opposite side to get a flat three armed shape.

Luckily, there are several sophisticated tools

I start with the easily spreadable ingredients,

which can be folded flat into the hexaflexagon.

Flex it by lifting the three parts with the flappy folded

And the flexagon is once again ready to be

The precious guacamole being stowed safely within the folds.

After adding beans and cheese, your hexaflexamexagon

To eat, flex only halfway and bite the delicious exposed

triangular pockets of flex mex perfection.

to leak slightly out of the folds of the flexagon.

as the nature of the burrito is to be a delicious leaking mess

regardless of whether it is cylindrical or hexaflexagonal.

As your next flex mex project, consider the humble crane

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