As my readers know, I enjoy the convenience of frozen meals. I also thoroughly enjoy the breakfast burrito, easily one of the greatest food items ever invented. But these two worlds have never successfully collided. Why is every store-bought frozen breakfast burrito I’ve ever eaten terrible? I’ve tried to buy the fancy brands, and while some succeed moderately in the taste department, they all fail miserably in the texture department. Every frozen breakfast burrito is tiny; like the size of Nokia 3310. Then, they have this thick, tough tortilla. It’s like you’re trying to bite through a quilt. Then the inside is always this liquid sludge that is hotter than the sun, with no discernible differences in ingredient textures.
Is this a manufacturing problem? Is it food safety? Why can’t anybody just make a decent breakfast burrito and then freeze it? Why does every one taste like they injection-moulded egg and mystery meat slurry into a leather shoe?