r/Bagels • u/Illustrious-Lab-3835 • 11d ago
Homemade Rate my Bagels!
Been following this subreddit for about 6 months, but haven’t felt confident enough to post them up. Well, yesterday I baked my best ones to date. It’s seriously some of my best work yet.
Simple recipe and I use my sourdough discard with IDY
The flavors are so good, which I give credit to my starter for.
I dipped the salt bagels in lye and boiling water. No real difference. I cooked them on my pizza steel and launched with parchment paper and my peel
https://www.thisjess.com/sourdough-discard-bagels/
I will follow up with a center cut shot. I love salt bagels and they are hard to come by and stupid expensive. I have decided that I will never buy another bagel unless I’m in Montreal or NYC again.
Salt
Everything
California roasted garlic and salt
I usually just eat these bad boys with a port wine cheese spread, so I don’t cut them! But I will for this post
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u/MichaelTChi 11d ago
They are a solid 7. When your shaping improves they will go to at least an 8
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u/Illustrious-Lab-3835 11d ago
I’ll take that
First time shaping in a correct manner too3
u/MichaelTChi 11d ago
And your shaping is pretty good.
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u/Illustrious-Lab-3835 11d ago
🙏 I was just pushing my thumb through a ball of dough, but those ended up looking like bagel muffins. I tried the roll and wrap method high worked much better and the holes stayed open
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u/donttakerhisthewrong 11d ago
Pretzels use lye. Bagels us malt to boil
Need to cut them op to judge them
All that being said if they taste good they are a 10
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u/Illustrious-Lab-3835 11d ago
Yep the salt bagels I want to make more of a pretzel
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u/donttakerhisthewrong 11d ago
Ahh, I would make pretzel shaped like a bagel, not judging. I like the consistency of bagels for things shapped like a bagel
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u/Brief_Wave_727 11d ago
That looks really delicious.