--- --- # This Guy Just Made a Playable Vinyl Record Out of a Tortilla. And It Sounds Terrible by [Helen Regan](https://time.com/author/helen-regan/) ## Helen Regan Jul 8, 2015 3:57 AM UTC by [Helen Regan](https://time.com/author/helen-regan/) ## Helen Regan Jul 8, 2015 3:57 AM UTC After a joke video of a[ tortilla](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1SiveWVIIo) spinning on a record player to the Jarabe Tapatio (aka The Mexican Hat Dance) went viral a few months ago, YouTube user [Rapture Records](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdzCv%5F9eaoM) decided he could do one better. So he got himself an uncooked tortilla and a laser cutter and made a playable, albeit shaky, vinyl record. “I was already familiar with laser cutting records at 78 rpm on acrylic for use in gramophones,” he wrote in a [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/vinyl/comments/3cf6yh/remember%5Fthe%5Ftortilla%5Frecord%5Fvideo%5Fi%5Fdecided%5Fto/csux50j) post. “I decided to see if I could make it work on an actual tortilla.” Rapture Records says uncooked tortillas work the best, “since they are the flattest” and it takes about half an hour to make a 7” record that lasts around 30 seconds. As well as the Jarabe Tapatio, he’s made tortilla records that play other tortilla-related songs, [including](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCreRPuzj0lJX%5FnHsyIUD2RQ) the Macarena, Yakko’s World and Puttin’ on the Ritz by Taco. And quite possible the best part about this project: “They are edible,” he says. “Just taste rather burnt.” Man Makes Playable Vinyl Record Using A Tortilla And A Laser Cutter ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3949034/tortilla-vinyl-record-viral-video-jarabe-tapatio-rapture-records/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3949034/tortilla-vinyl-record-viral-video-jarabe-tapatio-rapture-records/"},"headline":"This Guy Just Made a Playable Vinyl Record Out of a Tortilla. And It Sounds Terrible","datePublished":"2015-07-08T03:57:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:21:52.183Z","description":"Don't throw away your iPod just yet","url":"https://time.com/3949034/tortilla-vinyl-record-viral-video-jarabe-tapatio-rapture-records/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Food","Music","viral","Bizarre"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Helen Regan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/helen-regan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3949034/tortilla-vinyl-record-viral-video-jarabe-tapatio-rapture-records/","name":"This Guy Just Made a Playable Vinyl Record Out of a Tortilla. And It Sounds Terrible"}}]}] ```