Pastelle presses are available in many sizes and are made of wood, plastic. They are mainly used to make the dishes from our Spanish influence like pastelles, empañadas, arepas, etc. In our country we do not make tortillas like the Mexicans but instead, around the Christmas season we make pastelles, which has a process similar to making tortillas, hence we have the pastelle press. The only difference between the two is that tortilla presses also come in metal ( that's until somebody decides to import them into the country!) So long story short, same machine different name.

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