Homemade Pretzel Bites
chefsavvy.com · 2025 · 60 bites
Against 173 soft pretzel recipes
More butter than 88% of recipes and more salt than 76%.
What the 19 “homemade” soft pretzel recipes do differently →
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 173 soft pretzel recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More butter than 88% of recipes: 13% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 7%.
- More salt than 76% of recipes: 2.1% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.7%.
Ingredients (14)
- 1 1/2 cups warm water≈ 356 g
- 2 1/4 teaspoon fast acting yeast≈ 7 g
- 2 teaspoons salt≈ 12 g
- 2 teaspoons light brown sugar≈ 9 g
- 4 1/2 cups all purpose flour (plus more if needed)≈ 563 g
- 5 tablespoons unsalted butter (melted and cooled)≈ 71 g
- 1/2 cup baking soda≈ 144 g
- 1 egg≈ 50 g
- 1 tablespoon water≈ 15 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter≈ 28 g
- 2 tablespoons flour≈ 16 g
- 1 cup milk≈ 244 g
- 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese≈ 237 g
- salt and peppern/a
flour 563 gbatter 1226 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.
- Water66% · 62nd percentile · median 63%
- Butter13% · 89th percentile · median 7%
- Sugar1.6% · 31st percentile · median 2.4%
- Salt2.1% · 81st percentile · median 1.7%
- Yeast1.2% · 33rd percentile · median 1.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- 425°F / 220°C
- median 425°F
- Time
- 15 minutes
- median 15 minutes
Keep exploring
Recipes most like this one
Nearest by baker's percentages: water, butter, sugar, salt, yeast.
Do something with it
Or browse all 173 soft pretzel recipes.