Foolproof Chewy Homemade Bagels
Alexandra Stafford · alexandracooks.com · 2018 · 10-12 bagels
Against 150 bagel recipes
More salt than 88% of recipes and less malt or sugar than 80%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 150 bagel recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More salt than 88% of recipes: 2.6% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.9%.
- Less malt or sugar than 80% of recipes: 0.9% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 4%, under a third as much.
Ingredients (8)
- 6 cups (768 g) bread, high-gluten, or all-purpose flour768 g
- 3 teaspoons (20 g) kosher salt, I use Diamond Crystal20 g
- 1.5 tsp (6 g) instant yeast6 g
- 2 cups (454 g) water, room temperature or cold tap water454 g
- 1 heaping teaspoon barley malt syrup, honey, molasses, or maple syrup + more for boiling≈ 7 g
- grapeseed or olive or other neutral oiln/a
- 1 egg whisked with 1 tablespoon water≈ 50 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- various toppings: everything bagel seasoning (see above), sesame seeds, dukkah, etc.n/a
flour 768 gbatter 1305 g
≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.
Baker's percentages
Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 150 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Water59% · 50th percentile · median 59%
- Malt or sugar0.9% · 19th percentile · median 4%
- Salt2.6% · 90th percentile · median 1.9%
- Yeast0.8% · 37th percentile · median 1.1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 425°F / 220°C
- median 425°F
- Time
- 20 to 25 minutes
- median 20 minutes
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