Pretzel Buns
Tessa Arias · handletheheat.com · 2026 · 12 buns
Against 173 soft pretzel recipes
Less salt than 88% of recipes.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 173 soft pretzel recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less salt than 88% of recipes: 1% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.7%.
- Butter in the middle half of recipes: 4.9% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 7%.
Ingredients (9)
- 2 tablespoons (28 grams) butter, (melted and cooled to just warm (about 80°F))28 g
- 2 1/4 teaspoons (7 grams) instant yeast ((1 packet))7 g
- 1 tablespoon (14 grams) light brown sugar14 g
- 1 1/2 cups (355 grams) warm water ((about 120°F))355 g
- 4 1/2 cups (572 grams) all-purpose flour*572 g
- 1 teaspoon fine sea salt≈ 6 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- Pretzel salt or coarse salt, (for topping)n/a
- 6 cups (1422 grams) water1422 g
- 1/4 cup (60 grams) baking soda60 g
flour 572 gbatter 982 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.
- Water62% · 38th percentile · median 63%
- Butter4.9% · 34th percentile · median 7%
- Sugar2.4% · 51st percentile · median 2.4%
- Salt1% · 10th percentile · median 1.7%
- Yeast1.2% · 33rd percentile · median 1.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- 400°F / 205°C
- median 425°F
- Time
- 15 to 16 minutes
- median 15 minutes
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