Why are my bagels not smooth?

An underdeveloped dough will produce bagels with a poor rise, fewer blisters, and a rougher sort of topography that may look like webbing, or like fingers stretching across the crust. In extreme cases, the dough will have a cottage cheese–like texture, while the finished bagels will be lumpy and pale.

How do you keep bagels smooth?

Mixing: Low and slow’s the way to go. To achieve that smooth, stretchy texture necessary for your bagel shaping, mix your dough using an electric mixer with a hook attachment at low speed. Think: 3 and 3. Three minutes of mixing on the lowest speed then three minutes on the second-to-lowest speed.

How do you make bagels smooth and shiny?

Bagels need to be boiled to get a shiny crust. Boiling gelatinizes the starches in the surface to make the bagels shiny and chewy. Adding baking soda to the water makes it alkaline, which makes the bagels shinier after they are baked.

Why are my bagels so wrinkly?

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How do you tell if bagel dough is kneaded enough?

Perhaps the best way to tell if your bread dough is properly kneaded is the windowpane test. To do this, tear off a chunk of dough and stretch it between your fingers. If the dough tears, you haven’t developed enough gluten and it needs more kneading.

How long do you knead bagel dough?

Knead the dough, adding more flour as necessary, for 8 to 10 minutes by hand, or 8 minutes by machine. Dough will be stiff. Let the dough rest on a board about 10 minutes.

Why is my dough not smooth?

The main reasons why your dough isn’t smooth after you have kneaded it is either because you haven’t kneaded your dough sufficiently, you’re using a low protein flour, or you’re not handling the bread properly.

How long should you knead bagel dough?

Why is my bagel crust so hard?

The cooking Boiling sets the crust, so it will remain hard and chewy, but too long a boiling time (2-3 minutes on each side from Joseph, but 1-2 minutes from Roden) will make the crust too hard, and stop the inside from expanding as it should.

Should bagels come to room temp before boiling?

You could skip the overnight rise in the refrigerator and go straight ahead and boil and bake the bagels, but that long, cool rise is what gives these bagels their chewy texture and deep flavor.

Why does my dough look rough?

The overworked dough will often feel tight and tough. This means that liquid molecules have been damaged and won’t stretch properly, causing the bread to break and tear more easily. Conversely, a dough that is underworked will be harder to form into a ball shape.

How do you make bread smooth on top?

Knead in a small amount of flour, as needed. Less is better than too much. Divide dough into two portions. Form two loaves by stretching the dough and tucking under the edges, so that the surface of the dough is smooth on top.

Can I substitute all-purpose flour for bread flour in bagels?

I don’t recommend substituting the bread flour with all-purpose flour in this recipe as the texture will suffer. The high protein content in bread flour is what allows the gluten to develop to create a stiff dough that turns into chewy well-shaped bagels.

Why do my bagels have little balls in them?

Bagel balls can also result from under-proofing the dough, which can translate into a too-vigorous oven spring, or from mismeasuring the yeast—a more likely scenario when you’re using a regular kitchen scale, rather than a micro scale, to measure something as tiny as four grams.

What happens if bagels don’t rise?

An underdeveloped dough will produce bagels with a poor rise, fewer blisters, and a rougher sort of topography that may look like webbing, or like fingers stretching across the crust. In extreme cases, the dough will have a cottage cheese–like texture, while the finished bagels will be lumpy and pale.

How do you keep bagels from splitting when baking?

With this method, you just need to make sure the dough is bouled up until the seam on the bottom all but disappears. With a messy seam, as in the dough on the right, the bagel will split as it rises, relieving a bit of the pressure.

Can You boil bagels to make them chewy?

Without proper gluten development, these bagels will be doughy rather than chewy. When boiling bagels, it’s important that the water be bubbling-hot, which may require a bit of patience, as the water will cool in between batches.