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Hot Buttered Soft Pretzels

PJ Hamel · kingarthurbaking.com · 8 large pretzels

Against 173 soft pretzel recipes

No butter, unlike 79% of recipes and more yeast than 93%.

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How it compares

Against the typical batch: the median of 173 soft pretzel recipes, per 100 g of flour.

  • No butter at all, where 79% of recipes use some (most of those 5.7 to 11% of the flour weight).
  • More yeast than 93% of recipes: 2.3% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.4%.
Water: 66%, 64th percentileButter: 0%, 10th percentileSugar: 1.4%, 27th percentileSalt: 2%, 70th percentileYeast: 2.3%, 95th percentileWaterButterSugarSaltYeast
Percentile on each ingredient. Shaded ring: the middle half of recipes.

Ingredients (9)

  • 2 1/2 cups (300g) King Arthur Unbleached Bread Flour300 g
  • 1 teaspoon (6g) table salt6 g
  • 1 teaspoon granulated sugar≈ 4.2 g
  • 2 1/4 teaspoons (7g) instant yeast7 g
  • 7/8 to 1 cup (198g to 227g) water, warm*198 g

Toppings and extras

Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.

  • 1 cup (227g) water, boiling227 g
  • 2 tablespoons (28g) baking soda28 g
  • coarse, kosher or pretzel salt, optionaln/a
  • 3 tablespoons (43g) unsalted butter, melted43 g

flour 300 gbatter 515 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% · 64th percentile
  • Butter0% · 10th percentile
  • Sugar1.4% · 27th percentile
  • Salt2% · 70th percentile
  • Yeast2.3% · 95th percentile

Oven

Temperature
475°F / 245°C
median 425°F
Time
8 to 9 minutes
median 15 minutes

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