Soft Pretzels
Food Network · foodnetwork.com · 2014
Against 173 soft pretzel recipes
More salt than 97% of recipes and less butter than 78%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 173 soft pretzel recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More salt than 97% of recipes: 2.6% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.7%.
- Less butter than 78% of recipes: 1.3% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 7%, under a third as much.
Ingredients (9)
- 2 cups hot water≈ 474 g
- 1 tablespoon sugar≈ 13 g
- 1 tablespoon active dry yeast (1( 1/4 ) -ounce envelope≈ 9 g
- 5 to 6 cups all--purpose flour≈ 688 g
- 1 tablespoon salt≈ 18 g
- 2 teaspoons canola oil≈ 9 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 2 tablespoons baking soda≈ 36 g
- 1 large egg≈ 50 g
- Coarse or pretzel saltn/a
flour 688 gbatter 1210 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.
- Water69% · 72nd percentile · median 63%
- Butter1.3% · 21st percentile · median 7%
- Sugar1.8% · 34th percentile · median 2.4%
- Salt2.6% · 98th percentile · median 1.7%
- Yeast1.4% · 59th 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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