Required to Prepare: Microwave
490 calories per burrito
I apologize for not having taken my own photos for this one; I wasn't intending to review this one until after I experienced the quality of this product.
The first bit of wrongness comes from the preparation instructions: Despite being billed as a "Meal for 2", the only instructions provided are for microwave cooking, which specifically state not to cook both burritos at the same time--so, do they plan for my wife to start eating while mine is heating up, or do they think one of us just gets a cold one?
At any rate, we cook them one at a time, for five minutes each, in their silly little individual steamer bags. (The cooking instructions say 4-6 minutes depending on microwave wattage; mine isn't low or high, so 5 it is.) They also stand for two minutes to "complete cooking", which is apparently slang for "turn into concrete". You know, I expected a soggy tortilla, and I wouldn't have complained about that. Dried out, leathery, impenetrable tortilla? Not as acceptable. Forget cutting with a fork; they couldn't even be cut with a table knife.
For the record, the flour tortilla seemed to have been of the whole-wheat variety; unlike the package picture, they were moderately dark in color and the little bits that were edible had a whole-wheat flavor. After using kitchen shears to finally get at it, the filling inside seemed overly spicy and really didn't seem worth the effort needed to free it from its protective shell.
To summarize, these were utterly abysmal. Not only have they warned me away from ever trying any more of Old El Paso's frozen offerings, they've actually made me wary of their traditional products as well. I don't know who decided these were ready to market, but they deserve to have to eat this. :b
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