Perfect Challah
Food Network Kitchen · foodnetwork.com · 2023 · two 1-pound loaves
Against 72 challah recipes
More sweetener than 91% of recipes and more salt than 80%.
How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 72 challah recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More sweetener than 91% of recipes: 24% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 13%.
- More salt than 80% of recipes: 2.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.8%.
- Egg in the middle half of recipes: 20% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 25%.
- Oil in the middle half of recipes: 8.2% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 12%.
Ingredients (9)
- 1 cup warm water (about 110 degrees F)≈ 237 g
- 1 teaspoon sugar≈ 4.2 g
- One .25-ounce package active dry yeast (about 2 1/4 teaspoons)≈ 7 g
- 4 cups all-purpose flour (see Cook's Note), plus more for kneading≈ 500 g
- 1/3 cup honey≈ 113 g
- 3 tablespoons olive oil, plus more for the bowl≈ 41 g
- 1 tablespoon kosher salt≈ 12 g
- 2 large eggs plus 3 yolks≈ 100 g
- 1 tablespoon poppy seeds, optional≈ 15 g
flour 500 gbatter 1029 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 72 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Egg20% · 28th percentile · median 25%
- Oil8.2% · 27th percentile · median 12%
- Sweetener24% · 92nd percentile · median 13%
- Water47% · 74th percentile · median 40%
- Salt2.4% · 88th percentile · median 1.8%
- Yeast1.4% · 47th percentile · median 1.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- 375°F / 190°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 22 to 25 minutes
- median 28 minutes
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