Lye bath for bagels

Aug 20- The quest to make a bagel in San Francisco rivaling New York's best annihilates a stand mixer (twice) and an ego. Feb 20- Some photographs of my latest batch of Lye Bagels. Lye bath sourdough bagelsSep 2013Baking Soda in Bagel water bathMay 2012Boiling Bagels: what are we trying to achieve here?

Baking Soda for making authentic German. SimilarRemove the lye-parboiled bagel from the lye and set on a greased baking greased baking sheet. Sprinkle with coarsely ground sea salt.

Bake at 4degrees Fahrenheit for minutes or until evenly browned all over, turning around as necessary in the oven.

Makes five yummy, deliicious, chewy bagels. Dec 20- It's impossible to get good bagels further west than about New Jersey. Nov 20- This recipe will still make bagels that are significantly better than anything from a. Auntie Ann's uses it in their pretzel bath instead of lye. May 20- Bagels and pretzels are much better when sodium hydroxide is. Prior to baking, bagels get a hot bath and base is simply added to the water.

Aug 20- That's because that bath was actually a caustic alkaline solution. Traditional Bavarian pretzels are dipped in a lye solution before they are . Mar 20- There's the poison, the yeast dough, and the boiling water bath. There are lots of soft pretzels recipes, lye-dipping ones include that don't call for boiling the.

It's like the difference between a dinner roll and a bagel. No, the true bagel is boiled in lye.