The dough was shearing some when shaping, which leads me to wonder if it got overworked.
Here’s what I did:
550g water
400g levain
50g sugar
950g bread flour
25g salt
Mix, rest 1 hour, S&F 4 times during ~5 hour bulk, put in fridge overnight, divide, pre-shape, rest 20 min, shape, boil 30 sec per side (honey in water), bake @ 450 for about 22 min.
by jodiesattva
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Those are some good looking rolls!
I thought they were a type of hot cross buns. Lol
They look great, I think you just didn’t make the hole big enough.
Those are apples!
it is all in the shaping. Yaa just needed a bigger hole to ring ratio. But there’s nothing wrong with what you have. They are still bagels.
I use lye in my boil water. Some folks are frightened by it, but there’s no reason to be skittish of the stuff. Don’t know that it is so much better than other things I’ve seen people do. It’s just what I do.
Really need to make a pretty big hole before you boil them.
I’m a big fan of this recipe for bagels:
https://www.baked-theblog.com/new-york-style-sourdough-bagels-with-roasted-garlic-labneh/#recipe
(Use the metric numbers since they use weight, the “us customary” uses volume which is dumb)
Only variations I make:
I use high gluten flour instead of all purpose flour. This works the hell out of your stand mixer and you might want to cut the dough in half and knead half at a time.
For shaping I start with option 2 (poke a hole and roll your fingers around each other to make it bigger). But then once the hole is big enough to fit four-ish fingers in, I put one hand inside the hole and one hand outside and roll between my hands to smooth it out all around the circle until the hole is big enough that a golf ball could sit inside the hole and not touch any dough. Biiiig hole. It should look super awkward.
I usually let it rise at room temp overnight or roughly 12ish hours. The holes should still be pretty big but less big than before.
Then for the boil I use more baking soda than they call for, maybe 3-4x more. And I give each side of the bagel a full 60 seconds. The holes should now be close to their final size and more likely to look reasonable.
Well for damn sure throwing them out would be a waste. They look good!