The Tacone
Question: What's the worst thing about hard shell tacos? Actually, let me rephrase that. What's the ONLY bad thing about hard shell tacos? They fall apart when you eat them leaving you with a frown on your face and a plate that's covered in toppings.
What if it didn't have to be that way though? What if you could enjoy the crunchiness of a hard shell taco without the fear of it crumbling apart upon first bite? Well, now there is! Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Tacone!
I once again pulled out my waffle cone maker - the same one I've already used to make wafflecakes, my pizza cone, and my personal favorite, the chicken and waffle cone. This time, however, I combined some corn flour, water and a dash of salt, before flattening out the doughy mixture and nestling it between my waffle cone maker's two hot plates.
After about a minute and a half I took my partially cooked dough out, formed it into a cone, let it cool a little and then completed the cooking process by dunking it in my deep fryer. A couple minutes later I was left with a crunchy corn taco shell in the shape of a cone.
Next, I gathered up all the ingredients that I wanted inside my taco, mixed them up in a bowl to insure that each bite contained equal amounts of toppings and spooned them into my cone.
I probably should have taken a few more pictures before I started eating this thing, because honestly, they didn't turn out as good as I would have liked, but I didn't care. All I wanted to do was take a bite out of the Tacone and see how it tasted, and it ended up being every bit as spectacular as I expected!
Do you know what my favorite thing about my Tacone was though? During the process of eating it not a single thing fell out of it onto my plate! No ground beef, no cheese, no tomatoes and not even a single piece of lettuce!
I think this is an idea that you need to sell to Old El Paso. Hit up their marketing department!
What an idea!!!
That is an awesome idea. They finally "invented" the flat bottom taco shell so it seems that this idea would not hit any marketing department for years!
True! Also, I feel like those flat bottom hard shell tacos break apart even easier than regular ones because they're shaped so weird.
Woah! It's a Tacone - Well done @DudeFoods! #foodiechats
#creative #food #design
What happens when you combine two amazing things: the Tacone!
Aaarrrghh! Ha ha!
Here's one for @Mount_E
attn Don @TheMotorleague
@osubeav & @twd3lr -this up your alley?
Hey @aaronestrada & @JessicaDamico, let me introduce you to the Tacone!
This. Is. Awesome...
Taco + Ice Cream Cone = Tacone. How is this not a fast food thing? Someone start a food truck.
This is AMAZING you are a pioneer
Wow. I'm trying to imagine what it must smell like. Sugary wafflecone butter goodness plus spicy oniony taconess = ??
It pretty much just smelled like a taco. I used the waffle cone maker to make it, but used different ingredients than I would if I was making an actual waffle cone, so sadly there was no waffle cone smell to it.
A taco with a waffle/pancaky tortilla wouldn't be so bad... waco wouldn't be bad.
Sweet baby Jesus on a tilt-a-whirl. #OhMyGod
I present to you....THE TACONE. CONE + TACO Shell
@mendezlucy item for future taco truck
@LegendaryArmor @ombrophilia
Brilliant!
This is bordering on brilliance.
Yes! Please and thank you.
i must have one #numnumnum
This is brilliant.
The Tacone ...woah
Wonder if @Chaddukes has seen this piece of goodness The Tacone #Fillerup
Genius. RT @peeweeherman: What happens when you combine two amazing things: the Tacone!
the TACONE was not discussed as a use for corn at the alamo. but it should have been
I give you @halo826 the Tacone!
Simply, an eloquent way to eat Tacos, spoon the sour cream on with every bite & U'r gaming,using this idea at the next Sunday big games & Superbowl, & with any luck won't have to do any dishes...lol
Oh and @Nick, Yah, the flat bottomed shells do snap apart easier because of the fold, really
Quite an invention. Behold the Tacone!
TACO 2.0? RT @peeweeherman: What happens when you combine two amazing things: the Tacone! #design #food
genius...not quite a hotdog tree though “@peeweeherman: What happens when you combine two amazing things: the Tacone!"
Y.E.S. “@peeweeherman: What happens when you combine two amazing things: the Tacone!â€
This is awesome! Now i wish I had a waffle cone maker!
Wow, bro, welcome to 1996...http://www.tacone.com/about-us-began.aspx
So there's a restaurant called Tacone, but all they serve is wraps, sandwiches and quesadillas? Awesome.... Aside from the name I don't see the correlation.
Awesome!
While you're breaking ground with the crunchy shell cone, it appears that this place in BC serves tacones already. http://www.redfish-bluefish.com
That said, this is a damn fine idea, sir. Damn fine.
It's similar, but it looks like they just take a soft flour tortilla, grill it and sort of roll it into a cone.
This is what I see as well, hence my pointing out that yours is crunchy. I was informed of this place after forwarding your post to a group of foodie friends. I thought I would mention it as his review of the place was glowing and it shared a name with your creation.
As indicated before, I would eat the hell out of what you made. Just reading your article has made tacos for lunch an almost near-certainty. Kudos.
Yeah, oddly enough there's also some restaurant chain called Tacone, but they just sell wraps, sandwiches and quesadillas, none of which are even in the shape of cones. Weird.
Tacone! Screw ice cream.
And lo, from the heavens, came a blinding light of revelation.
There's a GENIUS born every minute
When a Mission-style burrito is just too damn inconvenient, grab a tacone.
Sheer genius!
Really the best idea of 2012!
ALL MY TACO PROBLEMS SOLVED!!
Someone start making these in Philly, please.
Solution to the only bad thing about hard shell
Solution to the only bad thing about hard shell
Genius...
An ice cream cone + a taco = the TACONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #WANT
I want one.
I want one.
A crunchy taco shell in the shape of a cone: Tacone. I love this. #tacovations
A crunchy taco shell in the shape of a cone: Tacone. I love this.
From the "why didn't I think of that?" category
this is ingenious
this is ingenious
I seen this concept on a food truck in Seattle. It was also on the show Eat street. also done on Iron Chef.
i have made them before as well and are fantastic. Sweet ones with Cin-sugar with fresh fruit salsa.
Fantastic
Patent infringement: Roger Wylie, Patent Attorney, Seattle, WA.
Huh?
A woman from Seattle has patented the corn/hard shell cone taco. This is why fried burritos, not tacos are marketed as soft flour tortillas, formed like a cone at every restaurant, food truck, and sports arena...otherwise she would sue them. No person or corporation can make them without her permission.
Does she have a restaurant or website or anything? Because after I made my Tacone a guy from Michigan also claimed he had it patented.
I bought her taco's at Whole Foods, a few years back. They were called Rick's Organic Volcanic. I believe Roger Wylie is her Patent Attorney in Seattle, WA. You could ask him to confirm?
Very cool. We make flaxseed cones, and fill them with savory and sweet food. We have what's called an Epic cone, our version of the taco truck taco. Spicy and vegan. Check out our Instagram page /rawdaddyfoods.
Hey, you stole the idea I came up with last night and googled to find this site, congratulations and rock on dudefoods. Can't wait to have one or 2 or many.
Hahaha, I've actually been meaning to go back and re-create the Tacone since this blog post is so old and the pictures aren't very good. I wanna form a quesadilla into a cone and make a Quesadilla Tacone!