#bagels — Public Fediverse posts

No more #carcinogenic #pizza and #bagels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25oxG_JQqW4

"The story of #Zabars–a #NYC #foodie fixture–is bigger than #bagels: it includes a horrifying #pogrom, a narrow escape to #America, and success in the face of countless setbacks. For #Jewish #American Heritage Month, Noam asks: what does does this story mean to American #Jews, and America at large? In a rare interview, #DavidZabar, a senior executive and third-generation family member, tells us the incredible story of Louis and Lilly #Zabar, how Zabar’s sees itself in the American tapestry, and yes… his bagel order."

https://unpacked.media/is-the-zabars-story-a-jewish-story-with-david-zabar/

Free bagels at Grain Mediterranean!

Breakfast is the new lunch I’m told. Everyone seems to want to catch up over breakfast. However I do not see why one should replace the other. I am in favour of breakfast, lunch and dinner. Not to mention afternoon tea (now that’s a perfe…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Breakfast #MediterraneanBreakfast #Bagel #bagels #breakfast #grainmedirterranean #highholborn #holbon #Mediterranean
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2593876/free-bagels-at-grain-mediterranean/

Free bagels at Grain Mediterranean! https://www.diningandcooking.com/2593876/free-bagels-at-grain-mediterranean/ #Bagel #bagels #breakfast #GrainMedirterranean #HighHolborn #holbon #Mediterranean #MediterraneanBreakfast

The finalists are fresh out of the oven.

My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #983 attemptedbloggery.blogspot.com/2026/03/my-ent… #ElisabethMcNair #Bagels #Psychotherapy #TheNewYorker #Cartoon #CaptionContest

I love a chance to stop by Hella Bagels for a small breakfast! Here is my full review:

https://bayareaexploreer.blogspot.com/2026/03/hella-bagel.html

#BagelShop #AlbanyCA #AlbanyEats #Bagels #LocalBusiness #Foodie #BreakfastGoals #SupportLocal #FoodLover #DeliciousBagels #AlbanyFood #WeekendBrunch #Yummy #TastyTreats #EatLocal #SnackTime #SmallBusiness #FreshBagels #HealthyBreakfast #GourmetBagels #BayArea #BayAreafoodie

有感冒症狀，就要做麵包。

感冒時精神不太好，需要用南瓜泥做個貝果提個神，這次包了葡萄乾奶油乳酪，提升了味道的豐富度，只是……大家都跑出來，都露陷了LOL

#pumpkin
#bagels
#baking
#homemade
#bread

Nur selten hat ein Café in so kurzer Zeit eine so große Fangemeinde aufgebaut wie Lemy’s Café. Im nördlichen Wedding hat sich der Ort schnell als Treffpunkt etabliert. Die Betreiberin betont, dass hier alles mit viel Liebe entsteht – und genau das wird von den Gästen wahrgenommen.

[…]

What's next, #Mauritan #bagels 🥯?
https://laist.com/news/food/taiwanese-bagels-have-arrived-in-pasadena-and-theyre-nothing-like-youd-expect?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=LAist&fbclid=IwVERDUAPaNbpleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR4VIla7lxfasW6xVQ8ZT52KeD1j6AZRb5rNKQTBhYawRi_2VRXxAU3MN9d1Gw_aem_fLrM-1fIYwrGalP2-hbBEQ #bagel #bakery #bakeries

Merry festive avocado and bagel pajamas to everyone who celebrates by wearing such questionable attire.

#bagels #avocadoes #pajamas

Merry festive avocado and bagel pajamas to everyone who celebrates by wearing such questionable attire.

#bagels #avocadoes #pajamas

Merry festive avocado and bagel pajamas to everyone who celebrates by wearing such questionable attire.

#bagels #avocadoes #pajamas

obviously not xenomorph eggs

#baking #bagels #obviously

Opening alert -- PopUp Bagels has opened in Harvard Square. https://bostonrestaurants.blogspot.com/2025/10/popup-bagels-is-opening-in-cambridges.html

#cambridge #harvardsquare #bagels

Yummm..treated ourselves to some delicious goodies from @gunnsbakery , a historic , local #Kosher bakery that makes the best #challah and #bagels that I’ve tasted!
Growing up in a neighbourhood with lots of Jewish folx, I also grew up with the wonderful food my family would get from Gunn’s, Bernstein’s, and when it was open, Cantor’s.
The rich cultural mosaic of #Winnipeg is one of the nicest , most unique things about it here.

#jewishwannabe #jewishfood #shoplocal #shopsmall #buycanadian

WAKEY WAKEY

#chicken #bakey #baking #bagels

WAKEY WAKEY

#bagels #bakey #baking

#Meanwhile...

#Ahead of #ThisEvening's #Continuation of our #WestWingMarathon; #TheBFF is #Making: #ToadInTheHole... #IT's a #HouseFavourite...

#IT's #EspeciallySuitableForVegetarians; #Particularly #IF "they" like #Snozzidges and #OnionGravy...

#Tomorrow is also #HappyBaconBagelDay; there's going to be #Bagels with #Bacon, and #Possibly a #FriedEgg... #TrueFacts... | #MakeTimeForBacon

#YoureWelcome

🧙🏛️🤖:wolfparty:​🤖🏛️🧙 | 🥯🎠🦹🐻🦹🎠🥯

#NotNews24 | #UnbreaklingHappyBaconBagelDayNotNews... #NotEven24...

#JustInCase you don't have #AnyBagels... You can #SwapOut your #Bagels for a #BriocheBun; or, just use #Bread... | #SwervingSuggestion

#IT's #JustASandwich... [#FriedEggOptional] [#Cheese #AlsoOptional] | #MakeTimeForBacon

#BeBrave... #CaptainRedBeanBear says so...

🧙⚔️🤖🐺🤖⚔️🧙 | 🥯🥓🥚🐻 🥚🥓🥯

making the bagel dough balls for the second rise

Okay, so I didn’t describe making the bagel dough rounds so they’re smooth and easy to make into nice even bagels in my very detailed bagel recipe. In fact, I’ve basically never shown it before at all, and people want to know. So let’s do that.

This happens after the first rise, when the dough has been allowed to sit for an hour and have a nice long nap, growing rapidly under a towel. You’ll want to have already divided the dough into eight equal-weight lumps, as per the written recipe above, and then you’re ready to make those lumps nice and smooth.

First, grab one of your dough lumps, and find the smoothest part of it. Put that side down into your palm.

Put your thumb in the middle on the rough side, and pull all the edges around your thumb up. The smooth end will stretch, and get even smoother, when you do this. It’ll look kind of like an opening xenomorph egg but will not – I stress will NOT – eat your face, or implant any eggs in your body.

Then press all those high bits together and then down into the centre of the ball, pinching all the seams together. You’re closing the xenomorph egg back up, which is why it will not eat you. And also how it’ll get smooth all over.

You’ll want to repeat this a couple of times. Each time the smooth side will stretch more and get smoother, and the rough side will improve as well. Make sure that you’re pulling all the side bits together in the centre; don’t leave any sticking out, and pinch closed all the seams.

After a couple of goes at this, you’ll end up with a nice fairly-smooth rough side, and a very smooth smooth side. Here’s a good “rough” side; you can see that really, it’s fairly smooth, other than one tab towards the bottom that still needs to be pulled in:

Once you’re satisfied, you can smoosh the entire ball down a little on your kneading surface – whatever that happens to be – rough side down. Roll it a little, to help the dough bind to itself. Then put it on your parchment paper baking sheet, again with the rough side down to let it proof. As it rises for the second time, it’ll smooth the bottom out even more.

If it’s not perfectly smooth after all this, it’s still fine. When you go to boil, boil with the rough side up first, then flip over to boil with smooth side up. Then put it back on the baking tray, keeping the smooth side up for baking.

I know this sounds a little like keeping good side/bad side straight when sewing, but… it should make sense when you do it, and it’s easier than sewing, since there’s no “oops, I forgot this turns inside out” to get wrong.

After the proofing is done, then with a little bagel fingering to put in holes, we’re ready to go into the water!

To get the bagels into the water, use a hurricane or a well-perforated giant spoon or whatever you have. Believe me, this is way easier than doing it by hand, and also helps preserve the shape.

The bagel in the hurricane in this photo is rough-side up; the bagel still on the sheet is smooth-side up. You can still see a difference but it’s really negligible.

All of the bagels in the next photo are just into the water with rough sides up, set to boil for two minutes. As you can see, this side is still less smooth than the smooth sides! But these are well into “no one will notice or care” territory, and again: it’s fine. Boil them for two minutes, flip with the hurricane, boil for two minutes more.

(Or boil for less time for a less chewy bagel, just make sure the boiling time is the same on boths ides.)

Boiling is a good time to oil the empty side of your baking tray, so take care of that at the same time.

After the second boil, just lift out with your hurricane and place the bagels back on your now-oiled baking tray. They’ll shrink and wrinkle some before going into the oven, that’s fine; they’ll expand back out in the oven. This is, as per the recipe, when you do any toppings.

See? This bagel got wrinkly. I don’t know why. They all do it to some degree, but despite all having the same amount of dough (within one gram) they’ll shrink differently. But it doesn’t matter, they’ll come out fine:

Also, while this is a bit out of scope for this how-to on smoothing your bagels, you’ll want to apply the egg wash to as much of the bagel as possible. For me, that means making sure the sides and the walls of the hole are coated, down to the parchment paper. But don’t let egg pool up and form puddles – or if that happens, make sure you tear it off before serving or putting the bagels away. Again, they’ll be fine.

Like so! All baked, out of the oven, and onto cooling racks, expanded nicely back out with no wrinkles.

Here’s what a random bagel bottom looks like, this one still very hot ow ow ow ow ow ow ow

They’re a bit soft, still, at this point, so it really is best to let them cool at least a bit before eating.

Enjoy your #bagels !

#bagels #baking #HomeEc

An updated recipe for delicious bagels

I like to post progress notes and photos to Mastodon while doing my Sunday baking. It mostly ends up being about bagels, but not always – sometimes I’ll make baguettes or sweetbreads or something else entirely.

But mostly, it’s all about the #bagels. I post about bagels so regularly that people have started using my bagel posts as a warning that Monsterdon – the weekly monster-movie watch with live commentary – is incoming.

(#monsterdon is in fact a monster, trending Federation-wide each Sunday evening, starting shortly after my baking posts wrap up. It’s great. Follow #MonsterdonAlert for news and voting on which films to watch.)

Anyway, in response to my latest baking thread, MHowell asked me if I’d blogged about baking bagels, particularly for people who bake only occasionally. And the answer was… sort of? So I threw them a short post that linked my recipe.

But since it’s been a while – and I’ve learned some things – here’s a new, more comprehensive version of the bagel recipe! This version adds more dough variations, includes a couple of important process discoveries, and explains a bunch of steps left unexplained in the original.

It is a bit wordier, I’m afraid, but it is very complete, which should make it good for beginners and occasional bakers.

Unfortunately, that also keeps it from fitting onto a single page, so it’s RTF only this time. If you want a single-page version like last time, you’ll have to put together your own. (ETA: And even so, I didn’t have room to describe how to make your bagels nice and smooth and regular. So have a second post just for that.)

Of course, the more you do this, the less you’ll need the recipe – I barely reference it these days, and then only for ingredient weights. But if that’s you, you probably don’t need a recipe! At least, not more than once.

Anyway. Enjoy DELICIOUS BAGELS! ^_^

#bagels #baking #HomeEc #MonsterdonAlert

#NotNews24 | #UnbreaklingHappyBaconBagelDayNotNews... #NotEven24...

#JustInCase you don't have #AnyBagels... You can #SwapOut your #Bagels for a #BriocheBun; or, just use #Bread... | #SwervingSuggestion

#IT's #JustASandwich... [#FriedEggOptional] [#Cheese #AlsoOptional] | #MakeTimeForBacon

#BeBrave... #CaptainRedBeanBear says so...

🧙⚔️🤖🐺🤖⚔️🧙 | 🥯🥓🥚🐻 🥚🥓🥯

round two

#bagels #baking #boiling

i am just saying

(the assignment was “self portrait through food”)

#baking #bagels #frootloops #giant

boily bois!

#baking #boiling #bagels

i like how the metal bits dance around

#bagels #baking #DrillPress

dough rising, time for DRILL PRESS

#baking #bagels #DrillPress

Hey #baking #bakers who #bake #bagels !

Do "real New York bagels" always have malt in?

Because I haven't been trying to make "New York-style bagels" - mine aren't that or Montréal but are closer to Montréal style* - but I was looking up something else and found a couple of people saying that.

anyway I was wondering because I might try it? but I want to know what I'm trying xD

* No wood burning oven because lol this is my house, no honey in the boil water, otherwise about right

#NotNews24 | #UnbreaklingHappyBaconBagelDayNotNews... #NotEven24...

#JustInCase you don't have #AnyBagels... You can #SwapOut your #Bagels for a #BriocheBun; or, just use #Bread... | #SwervingSuggestion

#IT's #JustASandwich... [#FriedEggOptional] [#Cheese #AlsoOptional] | #MakeTimeForBacon

#BeBrave...

🧙⚔️🤖🐺🤖⚔️🧙 | 🥯🥓🥚🦄🥚🥓🥯

bagels! out of the oven

#bagels #homeec #baking #rosemaryRockSalt

I thought I could convince #Belles #Bagels in #HIghlandPark to make a #glutenfree option.

#IThought_Could
#HashtagGames

I really need to start buying my own #bagels, toasting them, and putting cream cheese on. These prices are getting ridiculous. Plus #dunks always seems to screw something up. It's just not worth 7.50.