Make Your Own Hamburger Buns
Eric Rusch · breadtopia.com
Against 143 hamburger bun recipes
More liquid than 87% of recipes and no egg, unlike 86%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 143 hamburger bun recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More liquid than 87% of recipes: 68% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 55%.
- No egg at all, where 86% of recipes use some (most of those 11 to 21% of the flour weight).
- Less fat than 79% of recipes: 6.1% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 10%.
Ingredients (9)
- ½ cup (4 oz.) milk≈ 122 g
- 3 tablespoons sugar≈ 38 g
- 2 teaspoons salt≈ 12 g
- 3 tablespoons butter or margarine≈ 43 g
- 2 (¼ oz.) packages active dry yeast or 2 teaspoons Instant Yeast (0.34 oz.)14 g
- 1 ½ cup (12 oz.) warm water (105F to 110F)≈ 356 g
- 5-6 cups (1# 13 oz.) unbleached bread flour≈ 699 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- optional sesame or poppy seeds for the tops of the bunsn/a
- optional egg white and water to brush on the buns before bakingn/a
flour 699 gbatter 1282 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 143 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Liquid68% · 88th percentile · median 55%
- Fat6.1% · 20th percentile · median 10%
- Sugar5.4% · 41st percentile · median 6.3%
- Egg0% · 7th percentile · median 13%
- Salt1.7% · 45th percentile · median 1.8%
- Yeast2% · 74th percentile · median 1.5%
Oven
- Temperature
- 400°F / 205°C
- median 375°F
- Time
- 12 to 14 minutes
- median 15 minutes
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