SIGforum
Bagel prices - wow

This topic can be found at:
https://sigforum.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/320601935/m/2290044415

March 30, 2025, 04:15 PM
downtownv
Bagel prices - wow
quote:
Originally posted by Sig Marine:
Boiling in lye is a pain in the ass. Barley Malt is good if you can find it, also expensive, honey works well.

I've been making bagels for awhile and they are better than anything I can buy. I've had NY bagels 50 years ago so it's hard for me to make a fair comparison but...I would put these up against them and they would probably rate very well.

I do boil mine for the reasons others have listed and if you like bagels that are a little crusty on the outside and chewy on the inside, the time is definitely worth the effort.
Plain, Everything, Jalapeno Cheese, Asiago Cheese, Cinnamon Raisin...they're all good








Impressive Marine!


_________________________
https://www.facebook.com/reel/2177215486049695
March 30, 2025, 05:24 PM
Cookster
Sig Marine,

Those look great!

"What's not to like?"

Cool


__________
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."
March 31, 2025, 08:55 AM
Captain Morgan
NJ bagels are delicious just like the pizza. To me it rival NYC bagels. Its the water that makes the bagels taste good.
The best bagel in Clifton NJ was run by a bunch of punk rockers. They had great cinnamon raisin bagels but they were best when they were fresh out of the oven and the butter would melt into every nook and cranny.


Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.
Benjamin Franklin
March 31, 2025, 10:06 AM
PASig
quote:
Originally posted by Sig Marine:

Boiling in lye is a pain in the ass. Barley Malt is good if you can find it, also expensive, honey works well.



I was always taught that home bakers can use a baking soda/water solution to boil bagels that will approximate the lye/water solution that commercial bakers use.


April 02, 2025, 06:31 PM
patw
quote:

I've been making bagels for awhile and they are better than anything I can buy. I've had NY bagels 50 years ago so it's hard for me to make a fair comparison but...I would put these up against them and they would probably rate very well.


Those look amazing. Nice job.
April 02, 2025, 10:11 PM
Gustofer
quote:
Originally posted by Sig Marine:
I've been making bagels for awhile and they are better than anything I can buy

Would you care to share your recipe?

I've made them using Peter Reinhart's recipe. They did turn out good, but not 'better than anything I can buy'.


________________________________________________________
"Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton.
April 03, 2025, 08:03 AM
229DAK
quote:
Barley Malt is good if you can find it
You can get it on Amazon.


_________________________________________________________________________
“A man’s treatment of a dog is no indication of the man’s nature, but his treatment of a cat is. It is the crucial test. None but the humane treat a cat well.”
-- Mark Twain, 1902
April 03, 2025, 06:05 PM
Beanhead
Costco still have 6 bagel for $6.99.
April 03, 2025, 07:17 PM
V-Tail
quote:
Originally posted by Beanhead:

Costco still have 6 bagel for $6.99.
They were $7.99 / dozen yesterday at the local (Altamonte Springs FL) Costco.


הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים