Soft Pretzels
bakedbyanintrovert.com · 2021 · 10
Against 173 soft pretzel recipes
No sugar, unlike 82% of recipes and less butter than 75%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 173 soft pretzel recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- No sugar at all, where 82% of recipes use some (most of those 2.2 to 4.7% of the flour weight).
- Less butter than 75% of recipes: 2.7% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 7%, about half as much.
Ingredients (12)
- ½ cup bread flour≈ 64 g
- ¼ teaspoon instant yeast≈ 0.8 g
- 3 tablespoons water (at 70°F)≈ 44 g
- ¼ teaspoon salt≈ 1.5 g
- 3 ⅔ cups bread flour≈ 466 g
- 2 ¼ teaspoons instant yeast (1 packet)≈ 7 g
- 1 ¼ cup water (warmed to 105-115°F)≈ 296 g
- 1 teaspoon salt≈ 6 g
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter (softened)≈ 14 g
- coarse salt (as needed)n/a
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 1 gallon water≈ 3791 g
- ¼ cup baking soda≈ 72 g
flour 529 gbatter 899 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 173 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Water64% · 61st percentile · median 63%
- Butter2.7% · 23rd percentile · median 7%
- Sugar0% · 9th percentile · median 2.4%
- Salt1.4% · 31st percentile · median 1.7%
- Yeast1.5% · 70th percentile · median 1.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- 450°F / 230°C
- median 425°F
- Time
- 12 to 15 minutes
- median 15 minutes
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