chapotraphouse

idk but everything bagels with cream cheese are fucking delicious

Bagels are boiled before they're baked, which gives them a chewier texture that toasts really well. It's an entirely different thing to just regular toast or bread.

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Ring shaped bread predates capitalism by at least 300 years. It’s just more efficient to make in certain cases.

A hole going thru the part that would be the furtherst away from the heat makes the whole thing to cook faster, allowing more production with the same capital and labor and shit, so, yeah

But it would made sense from a comunist planning perspective too, cuz it's more energy and labor efficient

Well you know how when you take a bite, cream cheese comes out of the sides and ruins the sandwich? The hole is there so it can escape in even more directions.

A bagel is not a sandwich and you suck at topology.

it's so bagel salesmen can string them around their necks before walking to the marketplace

It's a thicc bit of dough and the hole is for surface area when baking. Otherwise you'd either get a raw center or burned edges. Also they're not just bread rings, bagels are a different process which involves boiling the dough prior to baking and other stuff depending on the region (Montreal bagels>NY bagels btw). They're not really intended as sandwich material and that's a more recent use for bagels, that being said I fuckinf love a bagel sandwich.

Bagels are boiled, so I assume it has something to do with that

It makes it cook more evenly and also I think medieval bakes used to transport bread on wooden racks so bread with holes were more of a thing back then cuz you could easily stick them on the pegs. Pretzels and donuts also have holes in them. But I'm not a historian so maybe I'm talking out my ass

Edit: Some guy on has a more comprehensive explanation.

More shapes more fun

I had heard they were made to put them on poles so the kids who all ran around the streets selling them could carry more. I figure a pole of bagels sticking up above the crowd would also kinda self-advertise. Might be bullshit though.

it's just hard donut that allows you to put a spread on it

It's fun! You good make the exact same thing as batons but why have a bread baton when you can have a CIRCLE?