Beautiful Burger Buns
King Arthur Baking · kingarthurbaking.com · 8 large buns
Against 143 hamburger bun recipes
More sugar than 90% of recipes and more fat than 83%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 143 hamburger bun recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More sugar than 90% of recipes: 12% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 6.3%.
- More fat than 83% of recipes: 17% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 10%.
- Liquid in the middle half of recipes: 47% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 55%.
- More yeast than 76% of recipes: 2.1% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.5%.
Ingredients (10)
- 3 1/2 cups (420g) King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour420 g
- 3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons (198g) water, lukewarm198 g
- 2 tablespoons (28g) butter, at room temperature28 g
- 1 large egg≈ 50 g
- 1/4 cup (50g) granulated sugar50 g
- 1 1/4 teaspoons table salt≈ 8 g
- 1 tablespoon (9g) instant yeast9 g
- 3 tablespoons (43g) butter, melted; divided43 g
- 1 large egg white, whisked with 2 tablespoons cold water*≈ 33 g
- sesame seeds, or the seeds of your choicen/a
flour 420 gbatter 839 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.
- Liquid47% · 26th percentile · median 55%
- Fat17% · 84th percentile · median 10%
- Sugar12% · 92nd percentile · median 6.3%
- Egg20% · 72nd percentile · median 13%
- Salt1.8% · 51st percentile · median 1.8%
- Yeast2.1% · 78th percentile · median 1.5%
Oven
- Temperature
- 375°F / 190°C
- median 375°F
- Time
- 15 to 18 minutes
- median 15 minutes
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