How do I keep the burrito from unrolling when I put it on the skillet?

Question

My seal holds when I am holding it in my hands but as soon as I set it down on the skillet it starts to unroll. I have tried rolling it tighter but then I get blowouts at the ends. There seems to be a tension between rolling tight enough to hold and not so tight that it fails.

Is there a technique for transferring the sealed burrito to the skillet without it unrolling?

seam_side_down · Answer

Place it seam-side down on a hot skillet. The heat seals the final seam in about thirty seconds. The key is that the skillet needs to be properly hot before the burrito touches it — if it is too cool, the tortilla steams rather than seals, and you get the unrolling you described. Hot skillet, seam down, thirty seconds, do not move it.

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