New York-Style Homemade Bagels
houseofnasheats.com · 2026 · 12 bagels
Against 150 bagel recipes
Less malt or sugar than 76% of recipes.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 150 bagel recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less malt or sugar than 76% of recipes: 1.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 4%, about half as much.
- Yeast in the middle half of recipes: 0.6% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.1%.
Ingredients (10)
- 1 1/2 teaspoons instant yeast≈ 4.7 g
- 4 cups (510g) bread flour510 g
- 2 1/2 cups (567g) room temperature water567 g
- 1/2 teaspoon instant yeast≈ 1.6 g
- 3 3/4 cups (482g) bread flour482 g
- 1 Tablespoon dark brown sugar (or granulated sugar, light brown sugar, or barley malt syrup)≈ 14 g
- 3 teaspoons table salt≈ 18 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 2 quarts water≈ 1896 g
- 2 Tablespoons honey (or barley malt syrup)≈ 42 g
- Toppings like sesame seeds, poppy seeds, kosher salt, dried minced garlic or onion, or everything bagel seasoning, grated Asiago, parmesan, cheddar cheese, or melted butter with cinnamon sugar (added after baking)n/a
flour 992 gbatter 1597 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.
- Water57% · 44th percentile · median 59%
- Malt or sugar1.4% · 24th percentile · median 4%
- Salt1.8% · 43rd percentile · median 1.9%
- Yeast0.6% · 32nd percentile · median 1.1%
Oven
- Temperature
- not stated
- median 425°F
- Time
- 60 to 90 minutes
- median 20 minutes
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