Homemade Soft Pretzels
thereciperebel.com · 2014 · 8 medium pretzels or about 50 pretzel bites
Against 173 soft pretzel recipes
More water than 94% of recipes and less salt than 99%.
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How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 173 soft pretzel recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More water than 94% of recipes: 79% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 63%.
- Less salt than 99% of recipes: 0.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.7%, under a third as much.
- More sugar than 94% of recipes: 11% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 2.4%, about 4.5 times as much.
- No butter at all, where 79% of recipes use some (most of those 5.7 to 11% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (9)
- 1¼ cups warm water≈ 296 g
- 3 tablespoons brown sugar≈ 41 g
- 1½ teaspoon instant yeast≈ 4.7 g
- ¼ teaspoon salt≈ 1.5 g
- 3 cups all-purpose flour≈ 375 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 2 liters of water for boiling≈ 2003 g
- ½ cup baking soda≈ 144 g
- 1 tablespoon melted butter≈ 14 g
- salt for sprinklingn/a
flour 375 gbatter 719 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.
- Water79% · 95th percentile · median 63%
- Butter0% · 10th percentile · median 7%
- Sugar11% · 95th percentile · median 2.4%
- Salt0.4% · 0th percentile · median 1.7%
- Yeast1.3% · 45th percentile · median 1.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- not stated
- median 425°F
- Time
- 10 to 16 minutes
- median 15 minutes
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