Learn to make your own salty soft pretzels at home, with some help from Alton! 🥨
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Homemade Soft Pretzels
RECIPE COURTESY OF ALTON BROWN
Level: Intermediate
Total: 1 hr 55 min
Prep: 30 min
Inactive: 1 hr
Cook: 25 min
Yield: 8 pretzels
Ingredients
1 1/2 cups warm (110 to 115 degrees F) water
1 tablespoon sugar
2 teaspoons kosher salt
1 package active dry yeast
22 ounces all-purpose flour, approximately 4 1/2 cups
2 ounces unsalted butter, melted
Vegetable oil, for pan
10 cups water
2/3 cup baking soda
1 large egg yolk beaten with 1 tablespoon water
Pretzel salt
Directions
Combine the water, sugar and kosher salt in the bowl of a stand mixer and sprinkle the yeast on top. Allow to sit for 5 minutes or until the mixture begins to foam. Add the flour and butter and, using the dough hook attachment, mix on low speed until well combined. Change to medium speed and knead until the dough is smooth and pulls away from the side of the bowl, approximately 4 to 5 minutes. Remove the dough from the bowl, clean the bowl and then oil it well with vegetable oil. Return the dough to the bowl, cover with plastic wrap and sit in a warm place for approximately 50 to 55 minutes or until the dough has doubled in size.
Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F. Line 2 half-sheet pans with parchment paper and lightly brush with the vegetable oil. Set aside.
Bring the 10 cups of water and the baking soda to a rolling boil in an 8-quart saucepan or roasting pan.
In the meantime, turn the dough out onto a slightly oiled work surface and divide into 8 equal pieces. Roll out each piece of dough into a 24-inch rope. Make a U-shape with the rope, holding the ends of the rope, cross them over each other and press onto the bottom of the U in order to form the shape of a pretzel. Place onto the parchment-lined half sheet pan.
Place the pretzels into the boiling water, 1 by 1, for 30 seconds.
Remove them from the water using a large flat spatula. Return to the half sheet pan, brush the top of each pretzel with the beaten egg yolk and water mixture and sprinkle with the pretzel salt. Bake until dark golden brown in color, approximately 12 to 14 minutes. Transfer to a cooling rack for at least 5 minutes before serving.
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25 Comments
Me: How did it turn out?! Food network: Yes.
I've made this recipe twice and hit two home runs. Family destroyed 'em. Substituted melted butter for the egg yolk. My God! Thank you Alton. Batch #3 is rising now. Can't wait.
Yeah, that's how you make bagels or bullcrap pretzels.
Why post video without end result?
Happy Pretzel Day 😋👊
Keep Up The Good Work ‼️
I'm not one to trash talk Alton, but don't put your salt in with the yeast, #1. Let the yeast bloom first and mix with the dry ingredients, which should contain your salt. Pretzels don't need a lot of rise, but if you salt your yeast, you'll get a much denser pretzel. And #2, who doesn't show the final product!? I bet Alton would be upset if he saw this video.
Water heated to 115° is called steam…
You're de best and very nice to watch
Just made these. Melt some cheese on it and put some course kosher salt and it’s the best pretzels I ever made
How do you not like Alton Brown. Miss Good Eats so much!!!!
Cut this dork all you want. He has become unbearable to watch. So smug.
Slick editing at 3:30
I love him, I like him as a host on iron chef America 🙌🏽
What kind of scale do you use?
What happened to the end of the video?
Turned out awesme
Delicious yummy pretzels
Followed this recipe almost exactly. The only thing I omitted was covering the pretzels with a towel and spritzing water on them. They came out fantastic! Even made a couple with a cinnamon/sugar sprinkle which was a hit 🙂
What's that mixer got under the hood lol
My chemistry teacher used to use these episodes to give us a break, show us some science in the meantime. I loved it cause, I was into try new things to cook or be better at cooking. 😊
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Where is the rest of the video?
I made these a few months ago, and I wanted to punch my fridge like Sonny from thatdudecancook, they were that good. Alton never disappoints.
That video is not that good. You don't get to see the Pretzels when they're done. That's the best part To see how they look when they're done.👎👎👎
I make these at the start tary and end of football season for Beloved Hubby. he eats them.with Sierra Nevada Honey & Spice Pale Ale Mustard.
my go-to recipe. I make these 3-4x/year