Varekais' Pretzel bake..

[RottiGuy]

Looks amazing  !!

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[Travis]

Dang! That looks awesome!! We are making ours this morning before we head out for the day so I'll be posting some pics tonight.

Great job @varekai !! And looking forward to seeing yours @Mike RocksTheRed !!


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[MikeRocksTheRed]

Mike, I hear what your saying about doing the next round in the oven but I wonder if it would still be better on the RK? I don't own one but I'd look at the extra capacity and think of it as a time savings. Lots of staging and destaging with the oven. Am I on to something here?


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I think the oven might actually be able to fit more pretzels if you did multiple racks.  I also think some of our pretzels were a little bigger than they needed to be so we could fit more at a time if we made them a little smaller next time...maybe a the same amount of dough per pretzel, but roll it out thicker and end up with smaller pretzels as far as surface space they take up.

[MikeRocksTheRed]

@varekai  -  I finally had time to look through all of your pics!  Everything looks great!  Did you put a little flour on your pretzels so they wouldn't stick as you formed them before dipping them?  All of mine stuck to the parchment after forming them.  I'm not sure if we needed a little more flour in the dough overall or just needed a slight dusting once formed so they wouldn't stick.  The bottoms of mine came out exactly the same as yours.

That was a fun cook and I'm still tickled over it a day later.  It was interesting to see the difference in color between our pretzels and @Travis's since he used baking soda.  Did you see my albino pretzel that apparently I forgot to dip?  LOL.  I swear I dipped all of them.  That one might have been dipped in the last round after the lye solution had settled a bit.  If I am remembering correctly I pushed the second pretzel of that round into the water up and down a few times to stir up the lye that had settled.  I haven't tried that one yet, I'll have to see if it still tastes the same or not.  It smells like a pretzel, but it was also in a bag with the other leftover pretzels.

[kettlebb]

Makes sense Mike. All the pretzel cooks looked great fellas!


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[varekai]

@MikeRocksTheRed , no flour, but I only made four for a test run...I loaded them onto a wire skimmer and let them into the lye bath one at a time and pushed them under a couple times and removed to a parchment lined cookie sheet... I was also trying to find a weight that made a decent size. So after the initial 4 I was pretty stoked but had to start dinner, I want to make some pretzel buns with the remaining dough for burgers and more pretzels of course. This was a blast!!