A Conversation for Bagels
Bagel Boiling
Monica Schnutz Started conversation Jan 13, 2000
This article did not happen to mention that the best bagels are, or used to be, boiled before being baked -- a very important stage indeed.
I imagine that step must be omitted when one is adding inappropriate ingredients like chocolate chips (which belong in cookies and NOT in bagels) or, yuk, strawberries. It's enough to make a purist weep.
Bagel Boiling
Spaceboy Zoom Posted May 14, 2000
you are a woman after my own heart.
Yes, bagels must be boiled.. I know- I was a bagelsmith for three years when I was in high school, and it indeed has left me a bagel purist...
Bagel Boiling
minorinconsistency Posted Mar 10, 2005
If it is not boiled, it is not actually a bagel.
I'm living in Buffalo right now, and proper bagels are one of the things I miss most.
Also, western NYers pronouce it "baaaaah-gle"
Weird.
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