Did you know that some bagel varieties can be sold or even manufactured right after baking! This is not only interesting to know, but also important as most people assume they will quickly vanish in the eating process.
Many food businesses use this trick to keep production low-cost by using leftover dough as new rolls or as extra topping for other bread products.
This article will talk about how long these overproduction bakers let their bagels sit before slicing and/or toasting them.
Disclaimer: The information mentioned in this article should not be used as medical advice for any person at time of reading. These tips are simply things we learned from professionals who deal with baked goods daily.
We would like to think that leaving our bagels alone until they are toasted and/or sliced on an extremely clean surface free of crumbs is common practice, but it is not.
Baking time
The next step in bagel baking is the boiling or toasting of the dough. This process can take anywhere from one to three minutes, depending on your temperature and batch size.
Some recipes call for toasted bread flour which has more nutrients but will not rise as high of a foam when mixed with liquid. When mixing dry and wet ingredients, use a hand mixer to achieve the best results!
The length of time you toast the dough depends on how warm the oven already is. If the oven is hot, then bake them there! But if the oven is cold, then start checking them at about a minute and see what timing works best for you.
After they are done toasting, let the finished bagels cool down before slicing and serving.
They can go bad quickly
While some people may think that bagel season is winter, most countries have bagel seasons throughout the year. Some see them as fall food or spring food to be enjoyed during various times of the year!
That’s why it can sometimes seem like there are never enough recipes for the little breakfast bread-like snacks. Many chefs and cooks know how to make your average bagel, but what about Jewish rugzas or Israeli pita style bags? Or New England drop style baguettes?
We wanted to bring you an easy way to enjoy the perfect bagel every time! These Thin Mint Bagels will not only taste delicious, they’re also healthy due to their high bran content.
Thin mint flavor comes from vanilla powder mixed with cream cheese and coconut sugar. To top it off, these bagels are drizzled with chocolate glaze and cinnamon.
Keep them in the fridge to prolong their shelf life
While some people have never used fresh bagel dough before, many others have! They use it to make either plain or saltier bagels that are very popularly eaten.
If you ever need to refresh your bags, know that there is an easy way to do so. Simply place the leftover dough in the refrigerator and let it rest until it has fully thawed and can be shaped into balls.
When shaping the bagels, remember that longer baking times will result in denser, heavier baguettes but not necessarily thinner, lighter bread rolls.
Freeze them to keep for longer
After baking bagel chips, let the dough rest or “relax” for several minutes before slicing it into thin pieces. This allows time for the internal temperature of each piece to drop slightly, which helps ensure they toast as crisply as possible.
Once you have cut all your slices, you can either cook them right away in the oven or cool them and then refrigerate or freeze them until needed.
To bake the frozen ones, spread out a large sheet pan and place the bread in the dry area of the pan. Toast at 375°F (190ºC) for eight to ten minutes, depending on the size of your batch.
Bagel textures
Besides flavor, another important factor in how long bagels will last is their texture. What kind of shape they are!
Bagels come in many different shapes: plain white bread with cream cheese or butter spread on them, cinnamon raisin bagels, rye breads, seeded bagels — there are so many!
But unfortunately not all bagel varieties last as well when baked to death. The soft, fluffy nature of some types of bagels make them very vulnerable to burning and over-browning when cooked.
This can totally take away from the flavor of the bagel and sometimes even cause people to refuse a bagel because it does not taste good anymore.
Flour content
The next important ingredient in bagel baking is the amount of bread flour you use. Too much wheat flour can result in dry, hard bagels that break down into a soft, fluffy texture when cooked.
Too little wheat flour and your bagels will be wet and heavy which is not what you want.
Water content
The next factor that makes bagel shape pieces vary is their water content. Some are very dry, like our plain white bread bagel!
Bagels with more moisture in them will cook faster than those who are less moist. This is because as they bake, the air inside of the baguette gets dried out, creating lower temperatures where the dough clumps together.
This happens when you roll the bagel into a circle but can’t get it to stick onto your baking sheet, or it sticks but then breaks down while cooking.
The time needed for cooked bagels to reach an edible stage varies depending on how soft or hard you want them to be! If you would like them to taste better and/or warm-style bagels, start checking them at about the same time as the rest of the recipes in this article.
Yeast content
The second element in making bagel dough is yeast, which acts as both an ingredient and a component of the process. Yeast is an organism that grows by consuming sugar and water molecules to produce energy. Therefore, adding glucose or sugar to your recipe can help ensure that it has enough fuel to grow!
Yeast contains certain proteins that help keep shape. These are important for creating sturdy breads and bagsels! The protein in yeast is called gluten. Gluten is a source of elasticity for the dough so when you bake it, it sets into a hard texture.
That’s why most people like eating soft pretzels — they have softer gluten so it breaks down more easily. For this reason, some recipes use only pureed yeast instead of active dry yeast so there isn’t any extra glutening agent present.
A classic way to make bagels is using milk as a liquid to mix with the yeast and glueten.